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CurrencyInvestment talk
March 25, 2014

Virtual Currency

Virtual currency makes sense to the generations raised with the internet, but can be confusing to older investors, savers and spenders. In summary, a virtual currency aligns itself to no country or banking system other than its own. It exists purely as a digital entry in a database. Fairness issues…
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Investment talkMunicipal BK
September 9, 2012

Can we save American capitalism? By Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post Published: August 31

  A dozen Labor Days — and three presidential elections — ago, the world was in the thrall of American-style capitalism. Not only had it vanquished communism, but it was widening its lead over Japan Inc. and European-style socialism. Today, that economic hegemony seems a distant memory. We have watched…
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Investment talk
July 18, 2011

Who’s Liable for Fraudulent Investment Remarks?

If you repeat someone else's bogus investment statement, you may be foolish, but you are not liable for the bogusness. The Supreme Court in Janus Capital Group, Inc. v First Derivative Traders, 131 S.Ct. 2296, 2299 (2011) held that an investment advisor was not liable for fraudulent statements made in…
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