November 8, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open," said Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone.
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November 6, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"Bull markets go everywhere from 1-2 years to five years after the Fed begins tightening. We've got a long way to go before we have to worry about bonds competing against stocks," said Professor Jeremy Siegel of the Wharton School of Business
November 4, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"Homo Sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission the natural selection, the force that made us," said E.O. Wilson, a Harvard University biology professor.
October 17, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster," said the Civil War General, William T. Sherman.
October 7, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"The market always gets it right," said Jim O'Neill, the chairman of Goldman Sachs International, who coined the term "BRIC".
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September 18, 2024 - Quote of the Day
"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem," said the late President, Ronald Reagan.
Onshoring: the New Global Trend
By now, we have all become experts in offshoring, the practice whereby American companies relocate manufacturing jobs overseas to take advantage of low wages, missing unions, the lack of regulation, and the paucity of environmental controls. The strategy has been by far the largest source of new profits enjoyed by big companies for the past
September 10, 2024 - Quote of the Day
“The only surprise to me is that so many people were surprised,” said Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, about the financial crisis he predicted.