How I Got Patched In
November 30, 2011Last week’s post about Occupy Wall Street drew an impressive response from my Westchester neighbors. Hyper-local journalism may be working.
Benjamin Sullivan in Physician’s Money Digest
November 29, 2011Physician’s Money Digest, November 29, 2011Benjamin Sullivan identifies common investor biases to avoid.
Retail Therapy For Investors
November 29, 2011Shopping may or may not be good for the soul, but the Black Friday blowout certainly seemed to be good for the stock market.
The Fed Asks, ‘How Bad Is Bad Enough?’
November 28, 2011No cream-puff challenges here. The Fed’s latest stress test uses a nightmare scenario so we can rest easier.
Do Black Friday Shoppers Have FICA On Their Minds?
November 25, 2011Did this year’s Social Security tax cut produce enough bang for its $110 billion bucks to justify an extension? Get ready for another fight.
How The Federal Budget Will Finally Get Fixed
November 23, 2011The supercommittee failed to cut the federal deficit, but it succeeded in showing us how the budget will be fixed in the future.
Magical Money Can’t Fix Europe’s Banks
November 22, 2011Europe’s financially strapped banks are finding new cash – in their own spreadsheets. Regulators should stop the smoke and mirrors.
A Small End To A Small Movement
November 21, 2011Big ideas attract a big following. Small ideas usually don’t. An estimated 450,000 residents of Communist-encircled West Berlin jammed the Rudolph Wilde Platz on June 26, 1963, to hear President John F. Kennedy declare his commitment to their struggle with the phrase, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am a Berliner”). Two months later, some 200,000 civil rights marchers packed themselves around the Reflecting Pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial …
Put The Court’s Health Care Debate On The Air
November 18, 2011If ever a case should be broadcast, the forthcoming Supreme Court argument over health care reform is it. But the Court has tuned us out.
Leading From The Rear On Energy, Again
November 17, 2011The administration decides to delay a decision on Keystone XL. It’s one more example of leadership-from-the-rear that is taking us nowhere.
Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 71 bytes) in /var/www/phfg/_/wp-includes/meta.php on line 570