Commentary

February 21, 2011

When the Securities and Exchange Commission issued in January a study recommending a single fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisors, one might easily have surmised the SEC was prepared for the next step

February 20, 2011

If 2010 taught us anything, it was that the road ahead in 2011 and beyond is one that demands close scrutiny while the regulatory landscape reforms itself. At the heart of this change is the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

February 20, 2011

I bring all of this up because this month I have begun to make good on a promise I made to read the entirety of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, all 906 pages of it.

February 20, 2011

I recently read and heard some awful bunkum about the need to slash the Federal deficit. It did not come, as it usually does, from conservatives.

February 20, 2011

When the Securities and Exchange Commission issued in January a study recommending a single fiduciary standard for broker-dealers and investment advisors, one might easily have surmised the SEC was prepared for the next step

February 20, 2011

The residue left by the lingering effects of the Great Recession has not just made austerity fashionable again; it has opened up the eyes and perked up the ears of people all across the country.

February 18, 2011

Two land-owning ag stocks in particular may be underappreciated by the markets.