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The Stock Market, Explained
Despite an abundance of risk, the stock market continues to climb a wall of worry. Obviously, with the European debt crisis, China’s economic slowdown, and posturing from Iran, the stock market’s rise defies all logic. With all the known hazards … Continue reading
There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
By all accounts the sky was falling on December 5, 2008. Several months before, credit market liquidity had glazed over like cold winter molasses and, after over 150-years of business, Lehman Brothers had ignominiously vanished from the face of the … Continue reading
Requiem for a Dictator: Kim Jong-il
There are places on the face of the earth where, although the sun may occasionally shine, they’ve never seen a ray of light. There’s a cold dry Siberian no man’s land that extends east from the Ural Mountains to the … Continue reading
How to Catch Fate’s Fortune
Believing In an Absurdity [Editor’s note: Today’s Economic Prism is an excerpt of remarks made by Direct Expressions’ President and Founder MN Gordon at the annual company holiday party held last Saturday at the 555 East Steakhouse.] “Fate throws fortune, but … Continue reading
