In Remembrance…

“Taps.” Of all the military bugle calls, none is so easily or emotionally recognized. The haunting 24-note melody originally began before the Civil War as a revision to “Extinguish Lights,” the lights-out signal at the end of the day.

Brett F. Ewing in CNN Money

That popping sound you hear from Wall Street isn’t the latest bubble bursting. It’s champagne corks. That’s because the Federal Reserve may be coming to the rescue of big banks.

Fixing Social Security: America Faces Tough Choices

Fixing Social Security: America Faces Tough Choices   In May 2015, researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth published a report suggesting that actuaries for the Social Security Administration have been underestimating the demographic challenges facing the program since 2000.1 The fact that Social Security is in trouble was not a surprise, but the possibility that the day of reckoning might come …