Individuals who can stay in the market for a minimum of 4 ½ years should always be in the market. The key is to be sure you have the right asset allocation.
Economics has long been oversold as a science, when it is rather a branch of psychology, a study of the peculiarities of human nature, thus converting micro-economics into macro has always been a dangerous game.
Lehman Brothers is taking a cue from the Enron playbook by removing debt from the balance sheet for quarterly earnings reports and then hiding that debt in its own shell companies.
The price of oil has done for Russia what the cold war Kremlin was unable to achieve with all its missiles, tanks and mind numbing divisions of men and armor.
They may be too young for Iraq, but think how they could be America's Plan B when the Bush stimulus check plan fails! If we could get every other kid in the country into shopping camp this summer, goodbye recession!
Wasserstein and Lazard need to get their greed under control, take responsibility for their own actions, and stop cutting services and raising rates at Atria.
Trimming my expenditures while still buying the things and experiences I most enjoy in life is filling me with spaciousness and freedom. What can you trim with no loss of enjoyment today?
Roll over, Newt Gingrich, and tell Ayn Rand the news: Sometimes capitalism can be improved when government and free enterprise work as partners. Entrepreneurs are understanding that.
I just spent a few minutes on a variety of websites. They're quite deft and professional and excellent in every way. They just made me want to kill myself.
The Atria management has been cutting services, cutting wages, reducing benefits, and demanding more from both its workers and the product itself -- the seniors.
When I was 25 I was too young, the leaders were 50; and when I turned 50 (exaggeration for effect warning) the new world business leaders were 25.
The rogue ship I mentioned four years ago, Fannie Mae, has finally capsized and the results are seeping into inflationary expectations for the dollar (bad) and gold (good).
As the market for employer-sponsored health insurance continues to shrink, insurers are now targeting healthier people in the individual market, especially in the 20 to 30s and 50 to 64 age groups.
