I hate corporate jargon at least as much as the next person, and Á¢€Å“Think Win-Win!Á¢€ is one of many good reasons to be self-employed. Still, it represents an interesting idea:…
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Ann Logue is a freelance writer and consulting analyst who is fascinated by business and technology. She has a particular interest in regulatory issues and corporate governance. She is the author of "Emerging Markets for Dummies" (Wiley 2011), “Socially Responsible Investing for Dummies†(Wiley 2009), “Day Trading for Dummies†(Wiley 2007), and “Hedge Funds for Dummies†(Wiley 2006), and has written for Barron’s, Institutional Investor, and Newsweek Japan, among other publications. As an editor and ghostwriter, she worked on a book published by the International Monetary Fund and another by a Wall Street currency strategiest. She is a lecturer in finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her current career follows 12 years of experience as an investment analyst. She holds a B.A. from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. How's that for deathly dull?
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Having too many dudes around can be a terrible problem — especially on a cultural level, as explored in the latest edition of Ann Logue’s Numberscruncher.
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Tired of hearing about health care? Tough luck, bitches! Ann Logue is all about the Medicare in this week’s Numberscruncher.
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Who the hell is this four-eyed coot, and why is he sitting in the Popdose spotlight? Read Ann Logue’s latest column to find out.
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Who is Zachary Mexico and what’s he doing in the China Underground? Read Ann Logue’s review of the new Soft Skull release to find out.
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/683YnDGSqoY” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Usually, tales of Greek houses gone bad fall into two categories: drugs and alcohol, or hazing. The undergraduate members screw up; the old…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d6vjrzUplWU” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] The health-care crisis and the financial crisis have a problem in common, which is how the government can regulate those markets to make…
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the exaggerations and assumptions required to make the claim that Michael Jackson sold 750 million albums. He sold a lot of albums,…
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Alsip isnÁ¢€â„¢t the leafy, angsty Chicago suburb of a John Hughes movie. If people know about it, itÁ¢€â„¢s probably because they have been to a wedding at the Chateau Bu-ScheÁ¢€â„¢.Á‚ Á‚ …
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Chrissie Hynde: rock star, activist … restaurateur? Ann Logue broke bread at Hynde’s Akron, Ohio, eatery, VegiTerranean, and is back to tell us about it.
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Andrew Mueller, I Wouldn’t Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong (U.S. edition, 2009, Soft Skull) purchase from Amazon I Wouldn’t Start From Here is…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/92wr1UfMN_w” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] ItÁ¢€â„¢s been a bad time for NFL quarterbacks. Bernie Kosar, who played for the Browns, Cowboys, and Dolphins, filed for bankruptcy.Á‚ Ryan Leaf,…
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John Adams started it. In addition to cowriting the Declaration of Independence and his role in the American Revolutionary War, Adams wanted American independence to be celebrated in a big…
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DonÁ¢€â„¢t think Michael JacksonÁ¢€â„¢s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
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In her latest Numberscruncher column, Ann Logue looks at the dark spot where church misconduct and economics intersect.
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Eugene Fama is the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Prize world. He not only developed the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which sits beneath almost every theory in finance, but he also…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Smddcs5n0H0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] For the month of May, the unemployment rate clocked in at 9.4%, the highest level since the early 1980s. It felt like old…
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Lauren Luke is the other British YouTube sensation. And unlike Susan Boyle, she hasnÁ¢€â„¢t been hospitalized for exhaustion. Instead, Lauren Luke has gone from making videos in her bedroom showing…
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Last week, I went to a security analystsÁ¢€â„¢ luncheon featuring John Bogle, the retired founder of the mutual fund company Vanguard Group. Bogle didnÁ¢€â„¢t have nice things to say about…
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Donald Trump wants everyone to know that heÁ¢€â„¢s a billionaire. HeÁ¢€â„¢s suing an author who dared claim that Trump was worth as little as $150 million. That wonÁ¢€â„¢t get anyone…
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In the summer of 1998, HarperÁ¢€â„¢s Magazine published one of its most talked-about stories, Vince PassaroÁ¢€â„¢s narrative of how his family accumulated $63,000 in credit card debt. He and his…
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Financial theory starts with two key assumptions: first, that markets are efficient; second, that investors are rational. And, of course, in the real world, we all know that markets arenÁ¢€â„¢t…
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ItÁ¢€™s tough being a grandiose financial criminal these days. Lots of people ran scams that took millions from clients; Allan Stanford even collected a title while allegedly fleecing investors with…
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This month, Thomas Geoghegan has an article in Harpers about how debt changed working-class America. Barack Obama sat down with bailed-out banks to discuss their credit card practices. I paid…
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On Tax Day, I went to the Chicago Loop post office Á¢€” the one with the Calder where Ferris Bueller twists and shouts Á¢€” to mail in my forms. An…
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Different countries are…well, different. They have different laws and languages, funny stamps, and candy that you canÁ¢€â„¢t get at home. We usually think that part of being a distinct country…
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Wednesday was our last night in Iceland and the second-to-the last night of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. It was a great show to end on, too. Willie “Big Eyes” Smith…
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The Reykjavik Blues Festival was started in 2003 by Halldor Bragason, a blues guitarist from Iceland who studied music in the United States. Halldor has performed with many of the…
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In Icelandic, itÁ¢€â„¢s a klubbar blueshatidar — a blues club — at least for the week of the Reykjavik Blues Festival. The rest of the year, the Cafe Rosenberg is…