About a month back I wrote a column about my great concern that the one constant in my life over the past several years was changing, and I was worried. My bar had changed hands and I didn’t know what ...
Read More »Accused Democrats invoke Rove defense
Karl Rove may have left the building, but the suspicion that he corrupted federal prosecutions with politics lingers. Now defense lawyers are using that suspicion to help their clients. They have a built-in Rove defense, thanks to apparent partisan meddling ...
Read More »Napier: The triumphant return of Mike’s Tavern
About a month back I wrote a column about my great concern that the one constant in my life over the past several years was changing, and I was worried. My bar had changed hands and I didn’t know what ...
Read More »Woolner: Accused Democrats invoke Rove defense
Karl Rove may have left the building, but the suspicion that he corrupted federal prosecutions with politics lingers. Now defense lawyers are using that suspicion to help their clients. They have a built-in Rove defense, thanks to apparent partisan meddling ...
Read More »U.S. housing collapse may bypass some markets
By now, it’s clear where most of the pain is being felt in the U.S. housing market. Rising foreclosures and financing rates, a growing housing inventory and tightening credit is hobbling areas that once led the nation in the home ...
Read More »Toyota’s Kentucky workers shun UAW for good reason
Another Labor Day is history, and another futile year has passed for union organizers trying to recruit Toyota Motor Corp. workers in Georgetown, Ky. With union jobs vanishing and financially ailing Detroit automakers pressing the United Auto Workers union for ...
Read More »Toyota’s Kentucky workers shun UAW for good reason
Another Labor Day is history, and another futile year has passed for union organizers trying to recruit Toyota Motor Corp. workers in Georgetown, Ky. With union jobs vanishing and financially ailing Detroit automakers pressing the United Auto Workers union for ...
Read More »An employment recession may already be with us
We learned last week that the U.S. economy shed 4,000 jobs in August, the first decline in payrolls since 2003. The bad news spread retroactively to previous months, as the numbers for June and July were revised down. The disappointing ...
Read More »Wall Street will thrive without help from the Fed
It would be a mistake for the Federal Reserve to cut U.S. interest rates simply to keep hedge funds from failing, Wall Street firms from curtailing year-end bonuses or — though this might seem cruel — homeowners from foreclosures. Investment ...
Read More »Rubin Reality Check needed before messing with tax law
The Democrats are on the march, the tax march that is. Charles Rangel, the New York congressman and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is talking about “the mother of all reforms,” a plan that is said to ...
Read More »Technology, timing speed up payments
Recently, I moderated an American Bar Association panel discussion on financial best practices. Not surprisingly, the best practice that all the participants agreed on was that lawyers and law firms need to get their fees paid and into the bank ...
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