As we all know, recruiting for established, successful advisors has reached the bubble stage, with sign on "bonuses" (forgiveable loans vesting over years with many hurdles, really) reaching stratospheric levels. We've written about this...
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- Winston Churchill
Last month, I wrote (and posted online)an opinion piece entitled, "Occupy Wall Street Protesters: Do They Mean Occupy Our Wallets." Not surprisingly, being a libertarian, I found the OWS movement to be nothing more than silly claptrap. Actually...
How much conviction do you have in a company's reported net earnings under GAAP? Obviously, we all know that GAAP net reported earnings is an accounting fiction. That is why we are pleased to announce that David Trainer, founder of New Constructs...
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On Sept. 1, 2008 --- just 14 days before news hit that Merrill Lynch would be purchased by Bank of America --- I wrote an article saying, that ML was having "A Near Death Experience That Isn't Over." I concluded: In trying to fathom the amount of...
[gallery>The following is an essay written by Gary Wolfram, William Simon Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Hillsdale College. This is so far the best response to the stupidity that is Occupy Wall Street I have yet to see. (It should be...
