This was the Business Week headline on August 13, 1979. Almost 30 years ago we were asking similar questions as we are today.
I agree that the events that got us to the situation we are in today are different in some ways than past events. However at the same time as we look back over [...]
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I had the opportunity last weekend to speak to a group of 50 or so people at a local Church. The topic of discussion was “Biblical Financical Wisdom during Economic Uncertainty”.
At the end of the talk there was time for Q & A and there were two questions that I thought were worth posting about.
Question: [...]
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Enduring through Hope
In 1952, young Florence Chadwick stepped into the waters of the Pacific Ocean off Catalina Island, determined to swim to the shore of mainland California. She’d already been the first woman to swim the English Channel both ways. The weather was foggy and chilly; she could hardly see the boats accompanying her. [...]
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What is a “collateralized debt obligation”? What does it mean to “securitize” debt? We’ve all heard many of the fancy terms that supposedly got us into this financial mess, but there’s no one who seems to want to bother explaining it all. It would probably take us about 20 posts to do a mediocre job [...]
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