Monthly Archives: May, 2014

Here’s How Not to Invest

In Chasing Yield, Investors Plow Into Riskier Bonds, Tom Lauricella and Katy Burne of The Wall Street Journal highlight the dangers of the current...

A Retirement High-Life

“Your life is made of two dates and a dash. Make the most of the dash.” Twice a year a client of mine leaves the...

This is Criminal

Reuters is reporting that former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is holding $250,000 speaking “dinners” where he gives hedge fund managers (and others willing to...

What Goes Around…

How about these numbers reported last week in The WSJ: Young technology-company stocks fell out of favor in the blink of an eye. But their...

Feldstein Dismantles Piketty’s Socialist Tome

In yesterday's Wall Street Journal Martin Feldstein elegantly dismantles Thomas Piketty’s Das Kapital for the 21st century. Piketty is a French economist whose book “Capital...

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The Mysterious ALS Cluster in the French Alps: Is It Linked to Toxic Mushrooms?

Terence Monmaney of Popular Science reports that in Montchavin,...

Private Equity is the Next Big Thing Coming for YOU

Private equity is the next big thing coming for...

Trump Kills Bidenflation with First Price Drop in Five Years

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in...

U.S. Energy Outlook: Short-Term Decline, Long-Term Shift

The Annual Energy Outlook 2025 projects U.S. energy consumption...

Previously Unknown Eye Cells May Reverse Vision Loss

A groundbreaking study has identified previously unknown stem cells...

Does Chewing Gum Expose You to Microplastics?

A pilot study has found that chewing gum, both...

Eagle Ford Gas Output Rises

In the April Short-Term Energy Outlook, the U.S. Energy...

Danger on the Mountain: Managing Risk is Job #1

You know from here, here, and here about the...

Gold Is One Tool in the Toolbox

Everyone is talking about gold. The Wall Street Journal...

World’s Largest Copper Producer Shifts Copper Sales to U.S.

Fabian Cambero of Reuters reports that Codelco, the world's...