Commentary
The Great Conundrum
Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone, Joni trilled half a century ago. Another song, by CSN, went, it’s been a long time coming, it’s gonna be […]
National Bankrupty
Commentary
DOJ Study Finds “Real And Nearly Unprecedented” Spike In Homicides Around U.S.
by Tyler Durden We have frequently written about rising violent crime around the U.S. with an emphasis on the soaring homicides in Chicago which are up nearly 50% YoY (see recent posts here and here). […]
Wealth Abuse
Corporations in Rate-Hike Panic, Sell Bonds like there’s No Tomorrow, Investors Blissfully Eager
by Wolf Richter Telecom operator Frontier Communications came out of the “shadow calendar” with a $6.6 billion three-part bond offering to fund its acquisition of Verizon’s wireline operations in Florida, Texas, and California. The roadshow […]
Commentary
The Death of the American Pension: How Older Americans are Entering their Golden Years with a Lack of Retirement Savings.
by mybudget360 Listen carefully to the sales pitch from Wall Street. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s there was a push to get Americans away from pension plans and into 401k style retirement […]