Business Culture and Current Events Archive
Ben Stein Is Out At The NY Times
August 10, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
Ben Stein's fine work for us as a columnist for Sunday Business had to end, we told him, after we learned that he had become a commercial spokesman for FreeScore, a financial services company. Ben ...
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The New York Times Profiles BB&T’s Philosopher-Businessman CEO
August 2, 2009 · Category: Ayn Rand, Business Culture and Current Events
Over much of the last four decades, John A. Allison IV built BB&T from a local bank in North Carolina into a regional powerhouse that has weathered the economic crisis far better than many of its troubled ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: A Secular Bear Market
July 7, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Market Commentary, Top Gun Financial Planning
NOTE: Every week I write a Client Note for my clients. For a limited time, I am allowing non-clients to sign up and receive the Client Note. You can sign up at the top right ...
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We Know These Women Don’t Eat Carl’s Jr. So What’s With The Ridiculous Ads????
July 1, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Humor
Rolling my eyes..... This so reminds me of the Mike Judge's movie Idiocracy.
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WSJ: Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase
June 23, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Macro Economics
(Source: "Numbers On Welfare See Sharp Increase" (subscription required), The Wall Street Journal, June 22, A1)
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Malanga: The Social And Economic Effects of the 1970s Inflation
By contrast, we’ve largely forgotten our most recent brush with raging peacetime inflation, the 1970s. Although nothing like Germany’s in the 1920s, ours was nonetheless powerful enough to be more dispiriting and more transformative of ...
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USA Today: Seniors Hit Hard By Housing Bust
June 5, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression has slashed home values and triggered an unprecedented surge in foreclosures across the nation. It's also taking an especially harsh toll on an often overlooked demographic: seniors ...
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Controversy Regarding NY Times Reporter Edmund Andrews Article And Book
May 24, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events
Last Sunday, The New York Times Magazine published a lengthy adaptation from a new book by one of their business reporters: "My Personal Credit Crisis" by Edmund Andrews. The article generated a lot of attention ...
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M.B.A. = Master of Bullshit Administration
May 22, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Business and Investment Philosophy
What does an M.B.A. do for you that a doctorate in philosophy can't do better?
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M.B.A.s have taken obfuscatory jargon—otherwise known as bullshit—to a level that would have made even the Scholastics blanch.
- Matthew Stewart, "The ...
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Sac Bee: The economy is down, but the cost of living is going up
May 22, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Inflation
If you look at the consumer price index, you would think that the cost of living is very low. Unfortunately, that is not the case. The cost of living for the average person is going up.
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