InvestorPlace.com is an investing site -- always focused on making trades and finding actions to take (or avoid) based on the headlines. Think of this blog as an idea factory. Conventional financial media provides the raw material and together we'll pull apart the headlines, weld some facts together and try to build something investors can actually use. Your host is Jeff Reeves, a former newspaperman and financial journalist who has interviewed top CEOs, met the president and manages his own money.