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Those irrational French are a lot like us Americans
It's so much fun to pick on the French
The new normal: we’re all nuts
Read this issue of InvestmentNews, and you will find one thread running through several news stories and columns: irrationality (I am referring, of course, to the irrationality of investors and the public in general, not our coverage).
The wall around the wirehouses
In one of my recent OpINion Online columns, I compared wirehouse management to communist regimes before the fall of the Berlin Wall
After the fall: Lessons of the year past
If there is one lesson that financial advisers and their clients have learned since the financial world cratered in mid-September 2008, it is that black swans can be as numerous and messy as Canada geese.
When the middle class gets angry, watch out
For good reason, U.S. populism has earned a negative reputation over the years.
Mr. Wirehouse CEO, tear down your wall
If you are a regular reader of InvestmentNews, you may have noticed that we rarely quote wirehouse advisers by name.
A misplaced sense of shame
In a corporate-America ritual rivaling kabuki in its highly stylized movements, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. last week ushered in a brilliant new leader, John A. Thain, to replace its once-brilliant leader, E. Stanley O'Neal.
