John Oliver: Voting
Every American deserves an equal vote. But in some states, access to voting is becoming less and less equal.
John D. Rockefeller Was Richer – Way Richer – Than...
Rockefeller Really Was Way Richer Than You Are Please stop comparing the average person of today to yesteryear’s rich. Bloomberg,...
My 2015 Mea Culpas
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. On this fine morn, it is a review of 2015’s errors,...
Keep Politics Out of Your Investing Strategy
Politics and Investing Don’t Mix Ideology doesn’t help predict markets. Bloomberg, February 17, 2016 ...
Donald Trump and Other Republicans Are Unemployment “Truthers”
Bruce Bartlett is an economist who has worked on Capitol Hill, the White House and the Treasury Department. ~~~ Among Donald Trump’s...
Thinking About Prices in the Distant Future
A couple of words about how Friday’s column, What Investors Should Ask Themselves, came about. When I initially...
More Evidence of the Folly of Forecasting
Oil’s Rebound and Other Wrong-Way Forecasts People keep making predictions, though they’re almost always incorrect....
A Dubious Lawyer’s Dubious Tax Claims Against Vanguard
The Dubious Tax Case Against Vanguard Rules to prevent offshore tax evasion don’t apply to the fund giant. Bloomberg, February 8,...
Treasury Department Tries Its Own QE/Operation Twist
It is usually several months later in the year that I begin my annual lament over the state of the U.S. federal budget. Not so much the...