It's all your fault
By John SullivanOr I should say it's all our fault. Nothing about the current economic crisis in anyway discredits the underlying tenets of free-market capitalism. The system...
November 20, 2008
Investors confident global economies will continue to see recessionFour out of five investors believe that the world will continue to experience recession over the coming year. Merrill Lynch's November Survey of Fund Managers...
November 19, 2008
More failings from the PBGC brain trustI point to an excellent, and extremely scary, post (as if we needed more) at The Baseline Scenario blog. James Kwak updates us as to...
November 19, 2008
REIT, homebuilder shares fallThe MSCI U.S. REIT index fell 7.6 percent as U.S. homebuilders and real estate companies' shares fell, Reuters reports. The Dow Jones U.S. Home Builders...
November 19, 2008
Searching for a Custodian, and Questioning DiversificationI am in the final stages of selecting a new custodian and I'm rethinking my long-time belief in diversification. On the custodian front, I have spoken...
November 17, 2008
The tsunami is coming - analysts support Long Term Care Awareness WeekNovember 16 to 22 is Long Term Care Awareness Week. "Awareness is a mild word," says Cameron Truesdell, CEO of LTC Financial Partners LLC. "What they're...
November 17, 2008
Boomers reluctant to buy LTCI; economy is to blameThe economic crisis is forcing boomers to forgo long-term care insurance, according to a new a new survey by the nonprofit LIFE Foundation. Sixty-four percent of...
November 17, 2008
Where are we now? Job loss and market meltdown by the numbersBanks and brokerages around the world have cut more than 200,000 jobs since the collapse of the subprime mortgage market last year; today, Citigroup was...
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