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Michael Stumm is as an accidental currency guy. Toronto-based Stumm is a founder of Oanda Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based foreign-exchange trading and information. It’s an unlikely career turn for a computer scientist who has done research at Stanford University ...

The gap between rhetoric and hype in President Barack Obama’s budget is as wide as the Pacific Ocean. Obama has not offered change; he has offered a continuation of George W. Bush’s policies. Obama is not the anti-Bush. He is ...

In the government’s rush to stabilize the financial system, get the U.S. economy moving again, craft bailouts for institutions and entire sectors of the economy, and re-craft bailouts that aren’t doing the trick, the voices of limited government have been ...

U.S. President Barack Obama’s $75 billion plan to help families avoid foreclosure should be bolder. While it is a meaningful rescue attempt that may help 9 million Americans, it could be doomed unless mortgage issuers have to write down principal ...

Rush is wrong. There, I said it. It wasn’t so hard. Not for me, anyway. If I were Katie Couric, I wouldn’t be so foolish. Rush Limbaugh could feast for a week on a big network anchor like her. And ...

Rush is wrong. There, I said it. It wasn’t so hard. Not for me, anyway. If I were Katie Couric, I wouldn’t be so foolish. Rush Limbaugh could feast for a week on a big network anchor like her. And ...

In Do the Right Thing, consultant Gretchen Neels offers advice on professional etiquette and other behavioral issues that might arise in a law practice. Q. My colleague of 12 years was shown the door last week. While I am thankful ...

At all times, and especially in times of economic downturn and global unrest, volunteerism is one of our country’s most valuable assets. The Kansas City legal community has a history of actively pursuing volunteerism. Many law firms support “jeans days” ...

In his famous speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. described the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence together as a promissory note to every American — a promise of life, liberty and the pursuit ...

The world is full of victims of American International Group’s bad judgment, whether they know it or not. AIG’s push to market ever more exotic securities with ever decreasing attention to risk helped accelerate the economic tailspin felt around the ...

In his famous speech at the March on Washington in 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. described the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence together as a promissory note to every American — a promise of life, liberty and the pursuit ...