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 who are retired or nearly so.
– “Mortgage crisis robbing seniors of golden years”, USA Today, June 5
Also see: “NY Times: The Golden Years, Tarnished”, Top Gun FP, November 18, 2008.
Milton Friedman, the great popularizer of free markets and “Monetarism”, emphasizing the importance of monetary policy in contrast to Keynes emphasis on fiscal policy, is dead at 94. Friedman was one of the important intellectual voices in the movement towards…
A starting point for becoming knowledgeable about business and finance is simply to read The Wall Street Journal everyday. If you just do that, you’ll find your knowledge and understanding growing all the time and you’ll be way ahead of…
Hypocrisy n. : 1. The practice of professing beliefs, feelings or virtues that one does not hold or posess; falseness. 2. An act or instance of such falseness. CNBC and The Wall Street Journal yesterday broke the news that private equity…
Ever since reading Steve Jobs phenomenal graduation speech at Stanford University in 2005 I’ve been a fan and a believer that he was a business leader with a solid moral center. But a startling front page article (subscription required) in…
An interesting little post (subscription required – ???) over at the WSJ’s Deal Journal blog: Trading [in Dow Jones options] was particularly heavy April 17 – the day we’re told the approach from Murdoch was made – and last Wednesday,…
In other news from today, home furnishings retailer Bed, Bath & Beyond (BBBY), an $11 billion, S&P 500 company lowered its outlook for its 1st quarter ended Saturday June 2. It expects to earn between 36 and 38 cents per…