Money and Computing
Managing Financial Goals: Study on Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers
"the standard of conduct for all brokers, dealers, and investment advisers, when providing personalized investment advice about securities to retail customers ... shall be to act in the best interest of the customer without regard to the financial or other interest of the broker, dealer, or investment adviser providing the advice" more »
Short in Stature, Tall in Tone
It wasn’t the reading of my weight that terrified me. After a lifetime of dieting (skip birth to age 10), for the past half dozen years I’ve held steady at 104. Poundage was not the problem. It was the ruler she was about to pull up, then down, then down again, to measure my height. more »
The Question of Downsizing and The Three Deer
What if your ectoplasm ends up hovering over a squabble about whether to sell or store your maternal grandmother’s wedding present? What if no one has any interest in my prized first edition of Wallace Stegner’s collected short stories complete with a long inscription? So what, if no one wants that little nude? I forgive them if they donate all those watercolors I did of barrier island scenery after visits to Cumberland Island. more »
Ben Speaks: The Economic Outlook and Monetary and Fiscal Policy
The pace of economic recovery seems likely to be moderately stronger in 2011 than it was in 2010 ... considerable time likely will be required before the unemployment rate has returned to a more normal level ... average hourly earnings have risen only 1.6 percent ... I hope that the Congress will seek reforms to the government's tax policies and spending priorities ... more »