Financial advisors are no longer for the wealthy. They're now paying attention to the mass market.

Josh Brown is an investment advisor in New York City who runs The Reformed Banker, his commentary blog covering the markets, politics, economics, media, culture and finance.

Here's a really crazy story from Wired about a 30-something-year-old man named Mike Merrill who in 2008 decided to divide himself into 100,000 shares of stock and sell himself on the open market.

The idea of stock should be simple really, but it’s scary, because on MSNBC, there’s this rolling ticker with hundreds of stocks on it, and they show all these graphs and talk about opening and closing prices. It’s hard to imagine that Facebook—something that I use every day to look at pictures of my friend and other people I don’t know yet—can be worth some amount one day, and then the next day, it’s worth some wildly different amount.

Billfold pal Matt Levine's new "Ask A Banker" column is up at Planet Money.