In a country that seems increasingly polarized along ideological lines and a Congress that is paralyzed along party lines, it’s good once in a while to remind ourselves that, while…
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My fellow RT contributor, Bruce Haring, has an interesting piece on how Goldman Sachs managed to buy themselves out of criminal prosecution and jail time. The settlement is for Goldman’s…
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The first step to dealing with a problem is admitting you have one and, for America, it’s time we collectively faced up to our addiction to debt. For a brief…
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The U.S. economy once again crushed the naysayers in Q2 2014, soundly blowing away even my tepidly optimistic analysis. Earnings for the 490 companies comprising the S&P 500 that have…
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My personal introduction to the jury selection process started early on a sultry August day in South Florida as I joined a group of roughly 150 people who had been similarly…
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If you were at all connected to the real estate industry in 2005/2006 you knew something wasn’t right. While it might have been hard to foresee the collapse of the…
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The economy and personal finance are moving targets and that makes conventional wisdom a rear-facing metric. One topic that goes a long way back in conventional thinking is the concept…
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According to a recent Bankrate survey nearly a third (26%) of Americans have nothing saved for retirement. Zip. Zero. Nada en absoluto. A number that’s consistent with other surveys that…
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The last time I said something good about the economy one of my readers called me delusional. Fortunately I didn’t let that opinion change my investment strategy and it paid…
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You do all the right things like running antivirus software and being careful about the websites you visit and it can still happen, you can still get hacked. Exploits are…