by Henry Oliner | Apr 30, 2010 | Economics
From The Wit and Wisdom of Will Rogers edited by Alex Ayres When the nation plunged into the Great Depression in the late 1929, President Hoover swiftly took bold action. He appointed a commission to investigate. “I could have told him before sundown...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 28, 2010 | Financial
I use a money management firm, Banyan Capital Management , owned and run by Gary Watkins. Douglas Ott, II is a portfolio manager for Banyan, and like Gary is a real student of the market. I have been very satisfied with their results and their integrity. In their...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 27, 2010 | Business
About ten years ago I attended a national Metals Service Center Convention in Palm Desert, California. One of the programs featured Jeff McMahon, CEO of Enron Industrial Markets. He shared the stage with Don McNeeley, CEO of Chicago Tube and Iron, a large Midwest...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 25, 2010 | Economy, Financial
George Melloan writes in The Wall Street Journal, The Lessons of Basel’s Bean Counters Summarized: In 1988 the banking regulators from 20 leading industrial nations of the International Monetary Fund met in Switzerland and created Basel I to create a common...
by Henry Oliner | Apr 24, 2010 | Anti Semitism, Economy, Uncategorized
Zachary Adam Chesser I am certainly not advocating any violent action, but I wonder if fanatics who publicly threaten the lives of America’s most popular cartoon creators would be in greater danger than Matt Stone and Trey Parker. Can you imagine someone...
