This evening at 7pm ET:This was a pleasant surprise from Rich Karlgaard at the Forbes conference:
Barry Ritholtz, CEO and director of Equity Research, Fusion IQ: The surprise for me on this cruise has been Barry Ritholtz. Two things you probably know about Ritholtz if you follow his blog or see him on TV: He’s [...]
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is lobbying California to require the use of condoms in porn movies. Their argument is that this is an employee safety issue--like requiring workers to wear hard hats--and so should fall under the Cal/OSHA laws.
Or his he really cracking up? From my DC-insider friend "Mick Danger":Here’s a graph from EconompicData, based on data from a Forbes feature on income inequality:Which side of the graph needs to be attacked? The side not earning enough? Better opportunities? Lower taxes? More education? All [...]
Hope you had a nice Thanksgiving weekend, with good food, family and safe travels.
I am off to a Forbes conference this week with uber Bear Gary Shilling, Steve Forbes, and others.
Normal posting, along with a few special guest posts, is expected.
[...]Republicans are trying to defeat ObamaCare by arguing that its public option -- or government-run insurance plan -- will drive private insurance companies out of business, leaving Americans with less - not more - options. But the fudmental problem with ObamaCare, I note in my latest Forbes column, is not [...]
In a book by Steve Forbes and Elizabeth Ames, How Capitalism Will Save Us, Why Free Markets and Free People Are the Best Answer, the question was asked: Didn’t deregulation wreck the airline industry? The resounding answer is NO! It actually greatly benefitted consumers. As the a short version in [...]
