Let’s have a little fun at someone else’s expense. What do fortune-tellers, tea leaves, and Ouija boards have in common? Their predictions are more accurate than Wall Street forecasts. As one financial writer puts it, “Annual stock market forecasts are a sad, legacy...
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Year-end Economic Review Presents No Immediate Causes for Concern
In the year-end retrospective, our stockings were stuffed with a combination of oranges, walnuts and coal. In other words, life sometimes brings us a lump of coal, but we usually can find simple blessings to be grateful for. For instance, we avoided a much-anticipated...
WBIR: Memorial Day
On Memorial Day we honored the fallen heroes that have served and sacrificed for our country. How was our economy influenced by military conflict? STARTING WITH WORLD WAR II (1941-45), HOW DID IT IMPACT OUR ECONOMY AND AMERICAN FAMILIES? World War II pulled us out of...