Terrorists Attack Already Priced Into Market
This column is going to be about what no investor wants to talk about: another terrorist strike on American soil, and how could it affect the stock market. How likely it is to happen — and when? “When” is really the only question. Not...Bashing President Bush Takes Over as Our Number One National Pastime: Part II
Tom Brokaw said it. So it must be true. “There were three big reasons for the United States to go to war against Iraq,” said Brokaw. “Weapons of mass destruction, the connection to terrorists and that we were going to establish a kind of higher moral...Three Cheers for Bill Cosby
May 17 saw several gatherings commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court school desegregation decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. But the event held in Washington, D.C.’s Constitution Hall will be the one to be remembered because of...The “Working Poor” Scam
BusinessWeek magazine has joined the chorus of misleading rhetoric about “the working poor.” Why is this misleading? Let me count the ways. First of all, Census data show that most people who are working are not poor and most people who are poor are not...Assisted Suicide: A Moral Right
If a doctor is willing to assist in the suicide, based on an objective assessment of his patient’s mental and physical state, and on objective evidence of his patient’s consent, the law should not stand in his way.
