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Tebow or Not Tebow, That is the Question
By Gary Silverman - ( Much to my surprise, this appeared in UKs The Financial Times - TK ) Do you know how to Tebow? Unless you follow American football, you might not know what I’m talking about. But Tebowing is all the rage in the US today – and anyone with more than a …
Volatility Can Kill Your Variable Life Insurance Policy
The idea behind this post comes from an article by Gordon A. Schaller Several years ago you purchased a life insurance policy. You did this even though you always thought life insurance was a bad investment with returns of only 3-4%. However, this policy was supposed to be different; the premiums could be flexible and …
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What Should Occupy Wall Street Do Now?
Three organizing ideas and five policy ideas that could make the protests even more successful. By Eliot Spitzer | Posted Friday, Nov. 4, 2011, at 2:50 PM ET This is the question frequently—and properly—asked of Occupy Wall Street and its fans. Those of us who have written and spoken vigorously in support of OWS and …
Who Said Insurance Agents Have NO Sense of Humor?
A stock broker, an actuary and an agent are all caught drinking smuggled liquor while staying in Saudi Arabia. Under Saudi law, simply possessing alcohol is an offense punishable by death. However, the local prince is feeling generous that day, so he commutes the death sentence and instead sentences each to 20 lashes. After further …
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Top 5 Critical Retirement Plan Mistakes To Avoid
As of 2011, The Investment Company Institute reports that the 401(k) plan retirement system holds over $3,000 billion in assets, over 50% of which are found in stock-based mutual funds. Despite their popular use, many investors are uncomfortable with them and unfamiliar with the "rules of the road" when it comes to the proper care …
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Time for Policymakers to Get Real on US Housing
By Liz Ann Sonders - Senior Vice-President and Chief Investment Strategist at Charles Schwab Today, housing represents a record low of US gross domestic product at about 2 per cent compared with more than 6 per cent at its 2005 peak. But the psychological impact of housing on individuals, the stock market and the broader …
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Murphy’s Laws – Part IV
OK. Enough woe and gloom, technical mumbo jumbo, esoteric financial jargon, rain and cloudy skies. Where's the sushine, for God's sake? This is Homecoming Weekend! If this isn't time for a little levity, when is the time? Law of the Perversity of Nature: You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter. …
Reasons to Be Bullish, But With a Lower Case ‘b’
By Laszlo Birinyi The S&P 500 has been perilously close to a 20 per cent decline in recent weeks which would, by definition, terminate the bull market which began in March 2009. Given the economic circumstances and the continuing political turmoil on both sides of the Atlantic, most commentators believe it is only a matter …
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QE3 on its Way As Fed Prepares Phillips Trial
From the Financial Times and Scott Minerd When Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, emerges from his meetings with the Federal Open Market Committee, he addresses the media in that most Delphic of dialects – “Fedspeak.” Like any good central banker, he is careful to preach the piety of price stability. Even if he …
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