Barney Frank, an Architect of the Great Housing Bubble, Is to Save Us!
May 04, 2011
A friend brought this to my attention. The paragraph below is from ...
FAs Under Scrutiny by the Mainstream Press
FAs Under Scrutiny by the Mainstream Press
May 03, 2011
I suppose you could blame it on Madoff (nah, there are tons of other charlatans out there), either way, I have been noticing more and more articles in mainstream publications about how to choose a financial advisor. Here is one such article of...
The U.S. Tax Code Is a Byzantium of Favortism and Unfairness
The U.S. Tax Code Is a Byzantium of Favortism and Unfairness
May 03, 2011
Obama and his ilk are always asking the rich "to pay their fair share" in federal income taxes. The Tax Foundation will testify tomorrow on Capitol Hill that the U.S. tax code is ridiculously complicated and unfair...
U.S. Corporations Pay $100 Billion in Taxes on Foreign Profits
Apr 29, 2011
U.S. corporations have been vilified by the Left --- from unions to Democrats who shout populist rhetoric at how unfair our economic system is. Yet the United States has one of the hightest corporate tax rates in the world. You also hear how...
Obama's Agenda: Overwhelm the System
Obama's Agenda: Overwhelm the System
Apr 26, 2011
There is an email thread going around claiming that Obama is working from within to surreptitiously turn the U.S. into a socialist/Marxist state. The article was written by a classmate of Obama's at Columbia (class of 1983), Wayne Allyn Root (also...
Bernstein Research Is (Still) Bullish on Morgan Stanley
Apr 25, 2011
Brad Hintz, a senior analyst at Bernstein Research and a former CFO of Lehman Bros., still has an outperform on Morgan Stanley, and seems to be scratching his head that MS shares are trading below tangible book value. Sure, MS has been posting...
The Breakaway Broker Boom Continues. Or Not.
Apr 21, 2011
The much-talked about diaspora of FAs out of the wirehouses and into IBDs or RIAs is a much talked about phenomenon. Is it really happening? At a recent Tiburon Strategic Advisors conference in New York, Chip Roame remarked that the only one of...
What's Next? Hitler Lites? Stalin 100s?
What's Next? Hitler Lites? Stalin 100s?
Apr 20, 2011
A good friend of mine, a world-renown illustrator/artist, was travelling around Europe last month and discovered these cigarettes, named " ...
S&P Downgrade of U.S. Debt Crisis Mocked by The Atlantic
Apr 19, 2011
I really think most Lefties are idiots. James Fallows of The Atlantic magazine argues that the S&P ratings people are know-nothings and that the gub'ment (say in your best Michigan Militia accent) can just print money to inflate its way out of...
America: It's Your Fault, Says Obama
America: It's Your Fault, Says Obama
Apr 14, 2011
Readers of this blog will know that one of my favorite papers is ...
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