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Inflated Science
By Alexei BayerIn 1968, the Swedish central bank donated money to the Nobel Foundation to establish a Nobel Prize in economics. It became the sixth category in which…
May 25, 2011
Affluent Investors More Confident Than Millionaires: SpectremAffluent investors’ confidence passed that of millionaires for the first time since April 2008, according to Spectrem Group President George H. Walper Jr.
May 20, 2011
Top 10 U.S. Cities With Best Economic GrowthThe country might be recovering from a recession, but you'd never know it in Washington, D.C. So says POLICOM’s list of the top 10 metro economies.
May 13, 2011
Nobel Economist Stiglitz Accuses Budget Hawks of ‘Deficit Fetishism’The Nobel Prize winner argues austerity measures limit growth; message aimed for Brussels or Washington?
May 02, 2011
Advisor Confidence Index Falls as Year ProgressesAlthough the Rydex/SGI Advisor Confidence Index began 2011 at nearly a four-year high, it has steadily eroded since then as conditions in the global economy take their toll.
April 30, 2011
Advisors: How to overcome price objectionsMost of us know in our bones that if a client objects on price, the problem is not really price. Conventional wisdom says the problem is value.
April 27, 2011
Fed's Bernanke, in First Press Conference, Rules Out QE3Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke said during his first press conference that the economic recovery was “proceeding at a moderate pace and overall conditions in the labor market are improving gradually.” He also said the Fed was “looking carefully at inflation.”
April 01, 2011
Electric Utilities: Powered UpMichael S. Worms BMO Capital Markets Corp. 212-885-4031 [email protected] With the 4Q10 earnings season now complete, following are some of our perceptions…