Month: June 2011

You own any mutual funds? Better pay attention, then. As we learned yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) ruled in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v. First Derivative Traders (hereafter the “Janus...

. Your discussion of alpha and beta dogs made me search for recent articles on politicians. Internet provided a quick link to a book by Stephen J. Ducat “The Wimp Factor: Gender gaps, holy wars, & the politics of...

Common wisdom says that a sitting president can only blame his predecessor for the state of the union for a brief period of time. After a year or two at the helm, a president has to take ownership of the condition of the...

I remember back in 2006 having the distinct impression that people in the Bush administration were looking to discredit their critics, including the new army of citizen-journalists and opinion writers in the blogosphere who were...

Michael NoonanThe ECB has set its face against any “credit event” being allowed to happen as part of the Greek or any other bail-out.  Ireland has even been prevented from buying out its own debt at discounted...