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Moyers and Galbraith

Posted in Economics, Investing, Music, jobs, tagged Economics, financial crisis, Galbraith, Mark Johnson, Moyers, music for change on October 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have recently started subscribing to Bill Moyers Podcast via iTunes. Perfect hour for my usual 3 1/2 mile walk. Heard a very interesting conversation with James Galbraith (son of John Kenneth Galbraith) on our current economic crisis.
Galbraith argues that modern America has fallen prey to a wealthy, government-controlling “predatory class”:
Today, the signature of modern American [...]

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Market indexes in full swoon

Posted in Investing, tagged credit crunch, financial crisis, indexes, market, mutual funds, retirement, stocks on October 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Boy, this is hard to look at isn’t it? I can’t imagine how many people are out there who have 401K’s and IRA’s and never look at their statements – many are probably heavily weighted in these particular indexes and boy are they going to be sick when they open that quarterly statement and see [...]

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