By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN CITIGROUP is lucky that Muammar el-Qaddafi was killed when he was. The Libyan leader’s death diverted attention from a lethal article involving Citigroup that deserved more attention because it helps to explain why many average Americans have expressed support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The news was that Citigroup had …
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Is a Housing Market Turnaround at Hand?
By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne October 24, 2011 After years of housing market decline that has weakened the economy and depressed consumer sentiment, a number of analyses are strongly suggesting that a turnaround in the beaten sector may finally be at hand. Indeed, the market seems to be adding its endorsement to these analyses, with the …
Capital Market Insights – OCTOBER 31, 2011
Here is your Weekly Insights update from Curian’s Asset Management Group. This informative capital market update is designed to help those of you who want to manage your own money. Stay informed about important developments in economics and the markets… CONTINUE READING…
The Rising Cost of Long-Term Care Services
( I swore to myself that I would have a post today with a "positive" message. Sorry.) By Howard Gleckman on October 26th, 2011 The Metlife Mature Market Institute has released its annual survey of the cost of long-term care services, including nursing homes, assisted living facilities, adult day programs, and home care. And the …
A Look Ahead at the Geography of Global Security
As readers of this blog know already, I’m fascinated by the thinking and writing of Thomas P.M.Barnett. He is a strategic thinker with an ability to express complex ideas and to synthesize those ideas in a way that is understandable to those of us not so blessed. Here is a recent article by Barnett that …
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Why the housing burden stalls America’s economic recovery
An article from the Financial Times by Dr. Lawrence Summers The central irony of the financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending. Most policy failures in …
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The Haves and the Have-Nots
Some time ago I posted an article called Cognitive Dissonance. It put me in mind of something that frustrates me. I’m where I am in life and perhaps you are where you are as a result of forces in this country that created what we think of as the ‘great middle class’. You know these …
Court OKs Crummy Crummey Powers
By William H. Byrnes, Esq., Robert Bloink, Esq., LL.M. (A quick note: For those not already in the know, “Crummey" refers to a tax court case. The "powers" granted as a result of the ruling allows a person to effectively transfer meaningful amounts of one’s assets downstream to the next generations without causing you to …
Capital Market Insights – OCTOBER 24, 2011
Here is your Weekly Insights update from Curian’s Asset Management Group. This informative capital market update is designed to help those of you who want to manage your own money. Stay informed about important developments in economics and the markets… CONTINUE READING…
America Must Manage its Decline
From the Financial Times and Gideon Rachman Recently I met a retired British diplomat who claimed with some pride that he was the man who had invented the phrase, “the management of decline”, to describe the central task of British foreign policy after 1945. “I got criticised,” he said, “but I think it was an …
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