FINANCIAL SENSE ®

Financial Sense Online (FSO), with its free investment advice, editorials and specialized resource news and links, and Financial Sense Newshour (FSN), with its free interviews with some of today’s top financial thinkers, represent Jim & Mary Puplava's commitment to providing excellent educational financial resources to all investors. They feel that the investment community has given them a wonderful living since 1985 and they are grateful for the trust of their readers, listeners, and clientele. Financial Sense is their way of giving back to that community. That's why PFS Group publishes Financial Sense and Financial Sense Newshour to the public without cost.

Financial Sense began in 1987 with Financial Sense Talkradio, a local investment program that was Jim Puplava's first experience with broadcast media. Starting in 1987, Jim would take live calls from listeners who asked him questions about how to deal with their financial questions and challenges.

After seven years in radio, he spent a year as a financial anchor of a local television station. He devoted a part of each television broadcast to "pocketbook news," a popular feature where he would present a smart investment or budgeting idea. After completing his contract with the television station, Jim returned to radio where he felt he could reach and help more investors.

Jim's wife, Mary, has been the heart of FSO. In 1997 as the Internet started to take off, Mary developed a "barebones" online version of Financial Sense from a friend's template software. From learning a nail-biting template software program and producing 10 pages with one image per page to editing over 6,000 pages today, her skills have grown with the site. Their son, Adam, joined the firm in 2006 as Mary's assistant webmaster, and after working under her direction for a year and a half, became webmaster in late 2007 upon Mary's retirement. His multimedia graphic design talent has been an added benefit to our site.

In the beginning, content on Financial Sense was limited to basic contact information and the daily broadcast schedule for Financial Sense Talkradio. In November 1999, Jim began to publish a "Perspectives Series" to the site; his first article was about the overvalued stock market, particularly the technology sector. He immediately followed this series with his signature series, "The Perfect Financial Storm," and the rest is history.

In 2002, Jim left local daily talk radio and began broadcasting to a worldwide audience on the Internet. Financial Sense Newshour has steadily grown from a one-hour to a three-plus hours broadcast that includes Jim’s "take" on the week's market action, interviews with financial experts, and Jim’s personal perspective on the markets (not to mention the recent addition of snippets of comic relief!).

Liz Pace, FSN Program Manager, helps Jim set up his interviews with weekly guests from every discipline and investment profession. John Loeffler of Steel on Steel Productions, with his 20+ years in broadcast media, brings excellence to the production. Glen Meyer of Exact Sound Productions provides the sound engineering that allows us to publish to the web and to podcast, and Neil Mackellar provides occasional transcriptions.