“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.” --Ellis Boyd Redding, Shawshank Redemption Is anyone else having the strangest sense of vuja

We’ve all heard urban legends of successful people who became inspired and traded their careers for a life dedicated to helping others. There’s the faceless dot-com whiz who banked in the

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I don’t know about you, but I’ve got to think that Bernie Madoff is worried about his first trip to the prison shower this morning. I’ve seen The Shawshank Redemption, and I know th

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When casual investors ask where the market is, they're usually referring to the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Yet all of the last 10 professional investors I've talked to (including myself) had

When the fire started, they told us not to worry. They told us to remain calm. They said they had it under control. But a full-fledged economic conflagration eventually brought the world to its knees

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.”  --Ellis Boyd ‘Red’ Redding, The Shawshank RedemptionSomeone once said we s

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Gangsta Gangsta! It’s not about a salary—it’s all about reality. Someone said on TV that the US Economy will be the first to recover.  I humbly disagree&md