Could misdirection over the meaning of a simple, five-letter word – hedge – be at the heart of the roiling controversy over JPMorgan Chase’s embarrassing $2 billion loss in European trading? CEO Jamie Dimon tried to quiet the storm at JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s annual shareholders’ meeting Tuesday… But proponents of stronger U.S. financial rules…
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Americans on U.S. Soil May Be Indefinitely Detained, Sent to Gitmo or Assassinated
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U.S. Says Americans Are MILITARY Targets in the War on Terror … And Says that Only the White House – and Not the Courts – Gets to Decide Who Is a Legitimate Target
As everyone realizes by now, Congress’ push for indefinite detention inclu…
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The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
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November 5, 2011
The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
By ROBERT H. FRANK
CLOSE watchers of presidential politics weren’t surprised to see many of this year’s Republican hopefuls proposing to replace the nation’s progressive income tax with a flat tax…
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Is the Stock Market Cheap?
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May 2, 2011 Monthly Update
Here’s the latest update of my preferred market valuation method using the most recent Standard & Poor’s “as reported” earnings and earnings estimates and the index monthly averages of daily closes for March 2011, which…
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There Was a Clear Warning Four Years Ago
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Perhaps the nuclear energy proponents should have paid closer attention to the risks….
