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I’m a sucker for good headlines, so when I read “Meg Whitman Should Go” in the subject of my email inbox this morning (yes, I receive news in more than just my RSS reader — read about it here), I could do no less than make the Alley Insider article the first thing I read [...]

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If you’re a 20 or 30 something in New York City, there’s an event you should check out this month that’s bound to be incredibly fun and downright GOOD.
Big Night Out, the annual event held by Big Brothers and Big Sisters of New York City’s Young Professionals Committee, raises nearly $200,000 every year to sponsor [...]

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A great follow up to the Fast Company article I reported on last month was in a special section of the WSJ this morning: Less Power to the People (sub req) is a story that examines why Americans may soon begin to consumer less electrical power than they do today. The Journal lists 10 ways, [...]

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I remember "learning" about stocks in my high school econ class. After a few days of talking about them, my teacher set up a stock picking contest for the students, many of whom had gained no understanding whatsoever of the market during the tutorial. Anyway, one the biggest mistakes I remember people making - at [...]

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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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