Forget the statistical analysis, chatter from the guru of the minute, and the price of oil or gold, because we’re in a Mother Goose economy.The author of nursery rhymes summed up our current fi

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If most Americans had never heard of Wall Street titan Edward Liddy before the financial crisis, they knew his name only too well by the end of last spring.The former CEO of Allstate (ALL) famously c

This... is the lobby of the Petersham Hotel -- nine miles northeast of Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear is the sound of room service handing me my tuna sandwich. At some point after the blitz,

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