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I watched Gangster Squad last night with the expectation that I would be picking out interesting flourishes in the movie and having problems with the movie as a whole. That is pretty much what happened. This movie is
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Baz Luhrman is doing all of us a service with the release of the slick and modernized Gatsby. Many of us are familiar with the cautionary tale of unrequited love, misspent youth (and effort) – not to mention the inescapable
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A lot of food for thought here – and not only with regard to the Arab world . . . “Along with several others, I have argued that countries with strong traditions of the rule of law tend to develop a democratic culture
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If your original financial plan calls for you to sell certain securities once they have achieved a particular target price, be sure you’re actually capturing the value you had originally intended to acquire. If all, or a large
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April 27: Accompanied by DC political strategist, Joe McLean, Frazer attended multiple invitation-only events marking this year’s annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner and enjoyed broad-ranging discussions with current
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Few would doubt that divorce is a difficult and emotional process. It usually starts with the discovery of vanilla scents and sparkles on the linens or an excessive pool maintenance charge – or both. But divorce proceedings
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Like everyone else, I was shocked and disturbed by the recent tragic events in Boston. I couldn’t be more grateful to the heroic police officers who did such an amazing job at bringing the terrorists to justice (one of them
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Just a quick thought on this one today. I’ve been watching the Senate debate immigration reform and find myself wondering how some of these jokers possibly got elected. Our border is more secure than ever before. Fewer
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I was part of a relationship management team for a family with hundreds of million dollars in wealth built in the growth of a Fortune 500 company. My job: taking care of the kids. A profoundly unforgiving form of employment
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Failing to pay sufficient attention to relative levels of volatility is an all too common departure from intelligent long-term investing. This holds equally true with regard to individual securities, indices and entire markets.
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Having worked in Albany, I know a thing or two about dysfunctional government and, while it’s admittedly hard to do, Albany may well even beat out the United States Congress on that score. Nevertheless, the alternative isn’t
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Understanding liquidity – your ability to buy or sell an asset within a particular period of time – is 100% essential. ETFs, for example, are highly liquid: they can be bought or sold with the click of a mouse. Real
