| Sep 13, 2010 | Economy / BusinessStores are already full of Halloween costumes and scary stuff for October 31. TV stations are gearing up for reruns of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and its many sequels, when Freddy Krueger will revisit us again and again. But what really ought to terrify...
| Sep 6, 2010 | Economy / BusinessRemember the Great Recession? For most Americans, it’s an unforgettable nightmare that lives on. But for the CEOs of some of our nation’s biggest companies, it’s a distant memory. These CEOs live on Planet Platinum, where profits and paychecks are in...
| | Economy / BusinessIt’s been two years since the Lehman Brothers collapse set off a global financial meltdown. The government bailed out big Wall Street banks and they’re now making bumper earnings. Major corporations are sitting on $8 trillion in cash reserves, the biggest...
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| Aug 30, 2010 | Economy / BusinessCorporate America loves layoffs. No matter the cost to the affected workers, many investors see job cuts as an encouraging sign that CEOs are making the tough decisions necessary to make their company “lean and mean.” It’s striking that CEOs are...
| | Economy / BusinessSocial Security, created by FDR in the midst of the Great Depression, recently turned 75. If she were a person, this 75-year-old would probably appreciate the monthly check, which keeps 13 million elderly Americans out of poverty. Myself, I’m several decades...
