Submitted by The Capital Spectator
The pace of growth in money supply is a number that’s meaningless in a vacuum. To quote a rate of expansion offers no more insight than looking a stock or bond and having no knowledge of valuations beyond. With that in mind, what can we say of the 6.6% advance (in […]

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Submitted by A Dash of Insight
There is a special psychological barrier for those contemplating the purchase of U.S. equities — long-term investors and traders alike. The memories of losses in the 2000 era are still fresh. Those who do not study the fundamentals of market valuation — forward earnings and interest rates — […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
For serveral days now, I could only see the dancer turning clockwise and wasn’t convinced it could be otherwise, but I was just able to get her to switch directions and could see her turning counter-clockwise […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Yes, income in America is skewed toward the rich. But taxes are skewed far, far more. The top 5% pay well over half of all income taxes (57%) even though they only earn only 33% of the total income. The wealthiest 1% earn 19% of total income but pay 37% of all […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Many people who have never run one business for one day are nevertheless confident that they know corporate CEOs are not worth as much as they are paid.
~Thomas Sowell
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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From today’s NY Times article “Increased Compensation Puts More College Presidents in the Million-Dollar Club”:
Soaring compensation of university presidents, once limited to a few wealthy institutions, is becoming increasingly common, with the number of million-dollar pay packages at private institutions nearly doubling last year, and compensation at many public universities not far […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

From today’s NY Times article “Google Options Make Masseuse a Multimillionaire“:
“Although no one keeps an official count of Google millionaires, it is estimated that 1,000 people each have more than $5 million worth of Google shares from stock grants and stock options.”
Including massage therapist Bonnie Brown, “who answered an ad for an […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

According to the Washington Post, Bill Clinton earned $31 million in speaking fees between 2001 and 2005, as disclosed in his wife’s Senate ethics reports. The chart above (click to enlarge) lists the amount Bill Clinton earned for 43 speeches he gave in 2005.
Working less than one day a week, Bill […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM

Milton Friedman schools Phil Donahue on greed, virtue, and free enterprise.
(Via Cafe Hayek)
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