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Dec 31, 2015

Truck-driver teams have emerged as the shipping heroes of the holidays.

According to Loretta Chao, reporting for the Wall Street Journal, retailers and parcel carriers found themselves turning more than ever to driving teams this season, in which drivers pair up to keep trucks rolling for hundreds of miles over 20 or...


Dec 30, 2015

Few people realize how large the economic impact of charities has become in our country. The media tends to paint a picture of a "big, bad America who takes but never gives", yet the United States is unquestionably the most generous nation the world has ever known. Ameircans give and are happy to do it.

Do charities,...


Dec 29, 2015

The year is ending, and so is the opportunity to make final tax moves for 2015. Before you do, beware of subtleties in the tax rules that bring both opportunities and pitfalls, says Laura Saunders writing for the Wall Street Journal.

Today we do a round-up of late year tax moves in both segments 2 and 3. In segment 2,...


Dec 28, 2015

In the past 12 months, companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 have doled out nearly $1 trillion to shareholders in the form of both dividends and stock buybacks, the highest level since 2007. For years, hedge fund managers have been big proponents of share buybacks.

Hedge fund managers are suddenly changing their...


Dec 24, 2015

The Masters of the Universe don’t all live on Wall Street anymore. In fact you could say that the masters have become minions. The big banks and big fixed income bond traders ruled the markets in the old days. Bonds have become almost a dead issue and layoffs in bond departments at Morgan Stanley and others...