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The idea that the currently debated $700B Bailout Proposal will benefit Main Street is preposterous in its current state.  To assume that by giving the same culprits access to increased capital to stimulate the economy is ludicrous at best. We as the American Consumer must say shame on you...

1. Profit margins are challenged by market conditions. 2. The marketplace is very competetive. 3. Regulatory power struggles create fewer channels for sales.

The current market turmoil was created by good old fashion greed.  However, it can not be fixed with over regulation, it can be fixed with common sense and a true willingness of both parties, the consumer and the lender to participate in the increased risk of lending that is now prevalant...

As a member of the Wall Street Investment community for over thirty years, it continues to confound my logic that time and time again, beginning with the "Match King" and "Ponzi" scams of the turn of the century, to Samuel Insul's Utility Holding Companies of the twenties, to the "conglomerate"...

A government job is not a guarantee of a generous retirement pension.  State Governments are now facing the same underfunding problems in their retirement funds that industry revealed several years ago. The press needs to get this shortfall out to the general public so that they can take appropriate...

This article is extremely important for three reasons. First, it is out of the box creative thinking. Endowment building has been using the same approach to high net worth donors and frankly these approaches are over used and hard to understand. Second, HNW donors need to be enthralled with a presentation...

The world is becoming less habitable to mankind as a result of industrial pollution. Already-built industrial nations owe a debt to those nations who are attempting to follow that path. We have to work as a global partnership, for the protection of earth and future generations of mankind.

The Capital Markets are being fed by cheap, foreign capital. The Dollar has collapsed against major currencies. The net buying power of the consumer has been stagnant to declining for six years. We are distrusted, as a nation.      

Sears tried this 8-2-1982, and it was a disaster.  Securities are an extremely complicated subject and few will be willing to talk to someone at Wal-Mart.  The do-it yourselfers will go for the cheapest trade on the Internet.