Editor's Note: The author is principal and founder of Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors and managing director of the Washington, DC office.Charitable giving in the US fell last year by the l

Editor's Note: Eric Kessler is the Managing Director and Joe Weinstein is an Associate Director at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, a national philanthropy consulting firm that w

1) Wake Up, Your Brain Has Been Captured"The challenge is how do we explain to America what's going on -- how do we break through and help people understand how their brains have been captured?&

Editor's Note: Eric Kessler and Hilary Cherner work at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors, a national philanthropy consulting firm that works with individual philanthropists, family foundatio

The Cyclical Bull Within the Secular Bear In today’s 2 major financial print-media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, you have a remarkable contrast between the academic versus t

Equity markets had their biggest rally this year after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke outlined steps to fix the banking industry in a morning address. His remarks, delivered to the Counci

What a day it was for the market. Turnaround Tuesday definitely lived up to the hype.Citigroup (C) came out and said they had 2 profitable quarters through the first 3 months of this year; all the ba

The stock market is on a tear this morning on the heels of a statement by CEO Vikram Pandit that Citigroup (C) has a profit for the first 2 months of 2009. In a letter sent to employees Monday,

1) Now It's the Economists' TurnWe knew this was only a matter of time."The downturn exposes the decline of economic expertise," Newsweek observes in the March 16 issue. "Think of all

Methodology is destiny when conducting a study. A study conducted by San Diego’s Utility Consumers’ Action Network, which purports to show cell-phone users pay an average of $3.02 a minut