27 Dec Do you have an Interest in Interest?
You should! Everyone today should have an intense interest in interest ...
20 Dec The Future Begins Now
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“May you live in interesting times” is a warning signifying danger, uncertainty and …, yes, opportunity. We most definitely live today in an interesting time. This time, its events and its personalities will be studied for decades to come …, and present merely a prelude...
29 Nov Nearing the Edge of a Fiscal Cliff?
The term “fiscal cliff” means different things at different times in different economic environments. The single definitional consequence upon which there is universal agreement, however, is that it’s a bad thing to fall off that cliff … or even to skate too closely to its...
15 Nov Rational Exuberance
The obverse of “Rational Exuberance” is “Irrational Exuberance,” a phrase popularized in December 1996 by then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan when he warned investors that unjustified internet optimism had crept into stock market valuations. As a consequence, he warned, soaring valuation assumptions based on rosy...
25 Oct America’s Media Watchdogs
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution precludes the government from abridging Americans’ right to speak freely. By guaranteeing a broadly protected – and uniquely American – freedom of speech, the Constitution provides an essential base upon which America’s democratic society has thrived through the...