Social Security to Drain “Trust” Fund Earlier Than Expected – A Preview of our Future When The Money Runs Out (North Korea)

Confounded Interest | April 23 (Bloomberg) — The Social Security program will exhaust its trust fund in 2035 and have to start reducing…

Geithner’s Gamble

Project Syndicate | Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, recently laid out his view of the nature of world economic growth and the…

Reprehensible Behavior a Cornerstone of its Business Model

Financial Armageddon | Time for a rant. Although I (and many others) have long been critics of Wall Street’s incredibly sleazy, recklessly psychopathic,…

New Home Sales Down 7.1% – Housing Remains in the “House Latitudes”

Confounded Interest | April 24 (Bloomberg) By Lorraine Woellert — Sales of new U.S. homes fell in March to a pace that was…

The Road to Fiscal Crisis

Project Syndicate | America’s too-big-to-fail banks are well on their way to becoming too big to save. That point will be reached when…

North Dakota Leads the Country for Annual Growth in State Coincident Index at 10.7% Increase

Carpe Diem | The Philadelphia Federal Reserve released data today on state coincident indexes for March, and the booming, energy-rich North Dakota economy led…

Case-Shiller 20 City Down 3.5% YoY – The Limbo Rock Continues!

Confounded Interest | April 24 (Bloomberg) — Home prices in 20 U.S. cities dropped at a slower pace in February, pointing to stabilization…

Why You Should Care About Warren Buffett’s Prostate

qFinance | Have you heard the news? Warren Buffett has been diagnosed with first stage prostate cancer.Buffett (aka, the “Sage of Omaha”)…

Kenneth Mack on Race and the Law

Kenneth Mack on Race and the Law

| Wikimedia Commons The American law scholar discusses the warring ideals of egalitarianism and exclusion at the heart of US politics and law, from the founding of the nation up to the present day Read full interview View detail here: The Browser | FiveBooks…

AXA’s Dominique Senequier: ‘Private Equity Portfolios Should Outperform’ Stocks in the U.S.

AXA’s Dominique Senequier: ‘Private Equity Portfolios Should Outperform’ Stocks in the U.S.

| Dominique Senequier is on the Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women. What’s more, she has made a mark in private equity (PE), a domain that men have traditionally dominated. The 58-year-old Senequier is CEO of Paris-based AXA Private Equity, which she launched…

New Flag For Old

New Flag For Old

| Replace the Scottish Blue with the Welsh Green? It has a certain ‘freshness’ about it. I don’t think it works as well on a tie, but the new flag is actually much better than the old on a waistcoat, for those gentlemen with sufficient chutzpah.…

Social Security to Drain “Trust” Fund Earlier Than Expected – A Preview of our Future When The Money Runs Out (North Korea)

Social Security to Drain “Trust” Fund Earlier Than Expected – A Preview of our Future When The Money Runs Out (North Korea)

| April 23 (Bloomberg) — The Social Security program will exhaust its trust fund in 2035 and have to start reducing benefits to senior citizens unless Congress intervenes, its trustees said. That is three years sooner than projected in 2011 for the retirement benefits program, which…

Social Security to Drain “Trust” Fund Earlier Than Expected – A Preview of our Future When The Money Runs Out (North Korea)

Social Security to Drain “Trust” Fund Earlier Than Expected – A Preview of our Future When The Money Runs Out (North Korea)

| April 23 (Bloomberg) — The Social Security program will exhaust its trust fund in 2035 and have to start reducing benefits to senior citizens unless Congress intervenes, its trustees said. That is three years sooner than projected in 2011 for the retirement benefits program, which…