There’s just not enough time in a day. Where did the years go? How did I get to this age so fast? Got to get to that backburner client matter tomorrow! If you’re like me, these types of thoughts pop ...
Read More »Quick ‘health’ checks for you and your practice
There’s just not enough time in a day. Where did the years go? How did I get to this age so fast? Got to get to that backburner client matter tomorrow! If you’re like me, these types of thoughts pop ...
Read More »Napier: I need a few more like my new favorite client
I wish I had a couple of clients a month like the one I had this week. It would make my life so much simpler. She was a first-time DUI client. Paid the full amount of her fee in two ...
Read More »Woolner: Supreme Court debates putting inmates down like dogs
An IV line in a vein, a few pushes of a syringe, and the condemned man drifts off to sleep before his heart stops. How cruel could that possibly be? Gone are the nooses and firing squads, the gas chambers ...
Read More »I need a few more like my new favorite client
I wish I had a couple of clients a month like the one I had this week. It would make my life so much simpler. She was a first-time DUI client. Paid the full amount of her fee in two ...
Read More »Putting inmates down like dogs and making it hurt
An IV line in a vein, a few pushes of a syringe, and the condemned man drifts off to sleep before his heart stops. How cruel could that possibly be? Gone are the nooses and firing squads, the gas chambers ...
Read More »Goldman BRIC strategy full of potential traps
Certain investment ideas hit you right in the heart. Your pulse races because they seem so obvious, so immune to failure. Last year’s source of investor palpitation was a BRIC strategy, a solid-sounding acronym that targets only Brazil, Russia, India ...
Read More »Omerta adopted in muniland as questions keep coming
There shouldn’t be secrets in public finance. I’d like to think that everything involved in how a city or county or state borrows money is perfectly clear and transparent, a matter of fact. This isn’t always the case nowadays, especially ...
Read More »Pollan blasts low-carb bread, not so healthy chips
Michael Pollan’s “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto” is two-thirds of a good book. The best-selling author of “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” is back, detailing the way politicians, scientists and lobbyists have created the modern Western diet. For those who ...
Read More »New year brings another false dawn for housing
Maybe, just maybe, housing is stabilizing. That was the hope at year-end 2006, based on a plateau in existing home sales. After falling 13.6 percent from a peak annualized rate of 7.21 million in September 2005, sales of existing homes ...
Read More »A recession shouldn’t be in your 2008 forecast
Some analysts were predicting a recession would hit the U.S. economy in the fourth quarter as consumers, hurt by falling house prices and the high cost of gasoline, cut spending. It didn’t happen, and there’s no reason to think it’s ...
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