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The Time Has Come for Fixed-Income Electronic Trading In some regards, nothing has changed in the fixed-income trading space to warrant electronic trading. On the other hand, however, everything has changed, signaling that the time may be right for e-trading. By Larry Tabb April 17, 2008 In October 2005, I wrote a commentary, “Bonds Ain’t Stocks,” for Wall [...]

the-dimming-of-ge.pdf

              Dad was walking out of Fresh  Market  in John’s Creek with his young son.  He turned to the boy and asked,  “Do  you know what a wild goose chase is”?             “No,” his son replied.              Muttered the exasperated father,  “It’s when your mother sends us to the store to get something they don’t have.”               Investors  may be on a wild goose chase of sorts - seeking something that is not there.             The [...]

      We  live  in  a  world of  “sound  bite” news,  snippets  of information  sans depth  and  rational  analysis.  We  are  distracted  by  tragic school  shootings,  Iraq,  chaotic weather,  athletic  contests,  celebrity  meltdowns,  and  an American Idol election process.  Rarely  do we  spot  stories with profound  implications  for  not only  social,  business,  and  tax policy as a [...]

           The  goddesses  are getting older!  Cher, Diane Keaton, Dolly  Parton,  Sally Field,  Suzanne  Somers, and Liza Min-nelli  turn  age  62  in 2008,  among  the  leading  edge  of boomers who  are  redefining  the  aging  process!  The  demand  for  Suzanne’s  ThighMaster  may yet soar!             Even  George Bush,  Bill  Clinton,  Donald  Trump,  and  Jimmy Buffett  hit  age  [...]

          No , we  are  not talking  about Mike Huckabee, Bill Clinton as cheerleader  for Parade  Hillary, or  even  Barack Obama.    Barack is  not  from Hope,  Arkansas, but he wrote The Audacity of Hope  (still  # 5 on  the  New York  Times  Paperback  Non-fiction List).               We  are  talking  about Ben  Bernake  whose  Federal Reserve  Bank  engineered  two interest  rate  [...]

             If we  assume  that  the Democrats  take  control  of  Congress  and the White House  in  January 2009, tax planning becomes  a  tricky  exercise.  The  campaign  mantra  in the  Clinton-Obama-Edwards  camps  is  similar  —  tax  relief  for  the middle-class  and  tax  increases  for  the wealthy.  How  do  we  define  “middle  class”  and “wealthy”?               Democrats  offered  a  [...]