A new law helps employers offer retirement plan annuities, but doesn’t make annuities a better choice for most workers.
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A New (But Not Improved) Retirement Option
Controlled Flight Into Tragedy
Technology mandated on large jets has all but eliminated the type of accident that was almost surely responsible for Kobe Bryant’s death.
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Impeachment As Inquest
An inquest is a judicial-style investigative proceeding; a trial – including an impeachment trial – is not.
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Cash Back At The Supreme Court
A daughter’s coming-of-age party is lost forever, but her mother turns to the Supreme Court for a measure of justice.
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An Undiplomatic Diplomat
There are many ways Mike Pompeo could have responded to a journalist’s irritating questions. He chose the dumbest one.
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The Equal Rights Amendment, Back From The Dead
The world moved on after the Equal Rights Amendment failed to gain ratification decades ago. Now it’s back in the news.
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A New Back Door To The Private Investment Club
The SEC proposes to let knowledgeable but less-affluent individuals become “accredited investors.”
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Quarantining A Metropolis
Nobody has ever tried to quarantine a modern city. China is isolating several, hoping to stop an emerging disease.
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Minding The Hired Help
Assume everything is OK unless you are informed otherwise? Maybe for a responsible child, but not for the hired hands.
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The (Fictional) Pandemic Crash Of 2003
Recent pandemics teach that equity markets are quick to make a full recovery. Less-recent episodes offer the same lesson.
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