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There they stood, a breathing Mount Rushmore, or perhaps just the ghosts of Inaugurals past, present and to come. The three-person former presidents’ club came to the Oval Office at the invitation of its soon-to-be-member, President George W. Bush, and ...

The U.S. economy is in the throes of a deepening recession and needs a really big dose of fiscal stimulus to help stabilize it. What it doesn’t need is efforts by congressional Republicans to limit the size of the package ...

If you were searching for pockets of optimism in the U.S. housing market, where would you look? Easy guesses would be to avoid Detroit, Cleveland or any cities with domestic automobile plants or troubled manufacturers. Then there are the foreclosure ...

If it seems incongruous for elected officials to talk about budget discipline in the same breath as trillion-dollar deficits, it is. President-elect Barack Obama is being encouraged by economists of all stripes to err on the side of doing too ...

We are in the midst of a crisis caused by so many financial institutions borrowing too much money. Somehow, a critical mass of policymakers now believes that the correct response is for the U.S. government to borrow too much money. ...

Every lawyer needs a sophisticated practice-management system to keep track of matters, calendars, billable time, documents generated or received, and everything else you can think of to measure and assist with the practice of law. These systems can be expensive, ...

A perusal of current want ads will suggest that “strong computer skills” is a priority when it comes to qualifications for a legal secretary. But organizational skills are still mentioned more than once when employers describe what they are looking ...

It is fascinating to watch the powerful fall to the rule of the people. No better example is Citigroup’s capitulation to Sen. Charles Schumer regarding his initiative to revise the U.S. bankruptcy law as a way to stop the bleeding ...

A perusal of current want ads will suggest that “strong computer skills” is a priority when it comes to qualifications for a legal secretary. But organizational skills are still mentioned more than once when employers describe what they are looking ...

It is fascinating to watch the powerful fall to the rule of the people. No better example is Citigroup’s capitulation to Sen. Charles Schumer regarding his initiative to revise the U.S. bankruptcy law as a way to stop the bleeding ...

I recently received an e-mail agreeing with one of my columns from a self-proclaimed “skeptic.” Although I knew the answer, I chatted about what a skeptic is. Here is what I’ve learned: Skepticism is a way of looking at the ...