We are looking at a shrinking US middle class. Proctor and Gamble, historically a company that sold products to middle class America, is changing their strategy to...
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Cruising Toward Resolution
Does it ever feel like THIS to be a stock market investor these days? Last month, the equity markets were rocked by the Standard & Poors ratings downgrade of...
Financial Fear
by Gayle Colman As emotions are a natural “condition” of the human experience, I invite you to look closer at the emotion most often tied to money: fear. With the markets...
US S&P 500 Down 6.1%, Compares Favorably to Many of its Peers
August was a cruel month for equities throughout the globe! Here in the US, the S&P 500, the most representative of the major equity indices, fell 6.1%. Ouch. But...
CEO Pay Affects America’s Well-Being
The Institute for Policy Studies released a report Wednesday August 31st which shows that many large companies pay more to CEOs in compensation than they did in corporate...
An Insider’s Look At The Brokerage Industry
At a recent financial services conference in San Francisco, author Michael Lewis – the celebrated author of Liar's Poker, The Big Shortand Moneyball – talked about his own...
Playing Chicken
If you want to see the lighter side of what some are calling a potential global economic morass, check out the cartoons about the current U.S. debt ceiling...
Fixing Social Security
These days, as Congress debates the debt ceiling issue, Social Security is suddenly front page news again. If you want to see the lighter side of the debate, click here....
Reducing the Deficit
There is a great op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by Michael J. Boskin, professorof economics at Stanford University: click here to read. Basically the article states...
Zombie Consumers and the US economy
Today, the Associated Press reported that consumer spending did not increase in May which means that although we had two straight months of improving household income,...
Playing Chicken With The Debt Ceiling
Let’s begin this conversation with a less-than-serious look at how our banking system works. This short video will shift your...
The Next Tech Bubble? A Hangover to Avoid
Can the Internet read your mind? Try this and find out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc1WXBtum2o&feature=related. Now let's try reading the minds of investors. Those...
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