The Pocketbook Truth Of Airline Alliances
May 31, 2011If you had to pay $3,400 for a round-trip, economy-class airline ticket between Atlanta and Amsterdam, would you be confident that vigorous trans-Atlantic airline competition is providing you with great value? I would not. Atlanta is both the world’s busiest airport and home base for Delta Air Lines, the world’s leading carrier last year. Amsterdam, a major European hub, is home to the KLM unit of Air France-KLM, which is …
Larry Elkin in the Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2011Los Angeles Times, May 30, 2011Larry Elkin emphasizes the importance of professional representation when dealing with an IRS audit.
Jonathan Bergman in Reuters
May 27, 2011Reuters, May 27, 2011 Jonathan Bergman welcomes increased distributions from private equity firms in recent months.
Financial Planning For The Formerly Deceased
May 27, 2011Financial planning, like most disciplines, generally relies on the assumption that the dead will remain that way. Some people, however, are not as willing to accept this premise. Cryonicists believe science will eventually give us the ability to reanimate the dead. In preparation for this possibility, they elect to have their bodies, or sometimes merely their heads, stored in extreme low temperatures so that, when the time comes, they can …
Not All The Sharks Are In The Water
May 26, 2011When shark researchers talk about a food fight, the disputed prey is usually a sea lion or a dolphin. But when Mike Neumann, a shark diver based in Fiji, used the phrase in a recent email to LiveScience, he was talking about researchers and grant dollars instead of fish and marine mammals. The small community of scientists studying sharks recently entered the spotlight when several science blogs anonymously received a …
The Comings And Goings Of The Private-Jet-Set
May 25, 2011Taking investigative journalism where it has never been before, The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that some very rich people have private jets, and they use them to go places. As the article in question reported, the movements of private jets (and nearly all other U.S. aircraft) are recorded through the air traffic control system. While this data generally is not accessible to the public, the newspaper obtained access …
Fighting Wikipedia Spam
May 24, 2011When a hotel investment firm decided a 10-block stretch of Miami Beach needed a name, the easy part was coming up with SoBe 10, to catch a little of the cachet of South Beach. The hard part was getting the name to catch on. The firm, Jones Lang LaSalle Hotels, decided the best way to get people to use its made-up name was to pretend people were already using it. …
A Symbol Of Hate At The House Of Justice
May 23, 2011In the decade following the end of the Civil War, paramilitary groups and mobs in Caddo County, La., murdered approximately 10 percent of the county’s African American male population between the ages of 18 and 45. Most of these murders were never investigated, though the perpetrators often made little effort to hide their identities. They “were, for all intents and purposes, simply Confederate fighting units reconstituted, fifty to two hundred …
Good Intentions, Bad Policy On Retirement Savings
May 20, 2011Too many Americans face a future retirement for which they will have too little in savings. Is this because they raid their retirement savings along the way — or is it because they do not save enough in the first place? The answers to those questions are “yes” and “yes.” However, in a classic example of shooting at the wrong target, Sens. Herb Kohl and Mike Enzi have submitted legislation …
Shomari Hearn in CNN Money
May 19, 2011CNN Money, May 19, 2011 Shomari Hearn warns against clinging to money expectations and values that are no longer realistic.
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