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Exxon Mobil can’t do anything right, it seems. First there was the Exxon Valdez disaster, and now they’re making record profits  –  no one likes big mean evil people to make record profits. (Okay, there were some other things going on between 1989 and now, like spending millions in lobby money to corrupt the American [...]

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Searching through Lexis-Nexis files a while ago brought me to this file. It’s a New York Times article from 1949 about our Great-Grandfather Irvin making a bold prediction for the rattled English economy (he claims it wasn’t that bold, but predicting when England would emerge out of post-war doldrums would be an important thing for [...]

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This is a little something I send to my clients in their monthly report.
March
proved to be another successful month for stocks, as the major indices posted
fresh five year highs and closed higher for the third straight month. During
the first half of the month, the markets rose in anticipation of new Fed Chairman
Ben Bernanke’s first meeting [...]

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"Don’t be evil" — that’s Google’s official line. But what does this mean? Investors and businesses intend on making money, but should they do it at any cost? What if a company that creates life saving drugs also tests on animals? What about a conglomerate like GE, which has dozens of divisions, some of which [...]

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