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This Month
Congress Is Different? Of Course It Is! more »
A recent article discussed the fact all that members of Congress have defined benefit pension plans. Only five-percent of Americans have defined benefit plans and I, myself, terminated the defined benefit plan at the Troxel Company, where I was CEO. I also terminated the defined benefit for myself, along with all other […]
Economic Notes more »
There have been thirteen recessions since __________________ ?
Answer: Since 1929, with the deepest and the most prolonged coming in the late 1920s to early 1930s and the early/mid 1970s. So here we are again, eh? ( I personally have predicted eleven of the last three recessions!)
In one very […]
CHRYLSER and GM? more »
I am bemused to read of the possible merger of General Motors and Chrysler . . . but befuddled why the plans don’t include Ford, not to mention American Motors, Pierce-Arrow, Hudson, Bricklin, DeLorean, Studebaker, Dephi and Dana. If everyone gets in now, there will be government bailout money for all.
GM and […]
The Gift of Prophecy? more »
Here are excerpts from an (in)auspicious email I received in April of this year from close friend, an investment banker in New York. Note his predictions about Lehman, AIG, Freddy Mac, Fannie Mae, Merrill Lynch. And the autos?
Michael –
The US is in one of the worst recessions in living memory, not […]
Follow the Money more »
Did you know that Lehman Brothers:
Paid its regular cash dividend on August 25, 2008?
Announced on September 10, 2008 that it would slash its dividend from 68 cents to 5 cents. (It did not have a nickel even on September 10th.)
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Health Insurance News more »
The number of people without health insurance dropped 1.3 million to 45.7 million. The uninsured fell to 15.3% from 15.8%. The primary reason for decline: More people, especially children, are covered by government-sponsored insurance.
White […]
Prison, Cars, Cats and the Bible more »
My friend Rhashia has two nephews - her sister’s children - at Lompoc (an “FCC” or Federal Correctional Complex in Lompoc, California), both chaps in for selling crack or meth or something. Bad shit, I agree. One is in for five years, no parole. I have, accordingly, reflected on whether the last […]