Choosing a financial advisor is one of the most difficult things one can undertake. A study called,”The Market for Financial Adviser misconduct” (curious title) says that out of a database of 1.2 million individuals and 650,000 registered financial advisors, 7% were disciplined for misconduct and that median payment to customers in compensation was $40,000, One third …
President Obama once specified that the drone programme mustn’t create more enemies than it would on the (old-fashioned) battlefield. Is it meeting that test? Since the “drone wars” began in 2008, al-Qa’eda’s central command has been devastated, but the group’s offshoots have boomed. Yemen’s government was toppled by Houthi tribesmen angry that the US had …
“Go out of the world as you entered it. The same passage that you made from womb to life, without feeling or fright, make again from life to death. Your death is part of the order of the universe, the life of the world”. (Montaigne) Epicurus teaches us that death is nothing to fear. Life …
Olive Cooke was a 92 year old worker for charity, who some while ago took her own life, apparently overwhelmed with phone calls and dunning letters from charities asking her for more and more money. She had signed up to give money to 27 charities, but that done she was besieged with 267 letters a …
The Metro Section of the Washington Post on February 16 carried an article asking “When things started going downhill?” (it was a tongue-in-cheek article, and quite amusing). A Mr. Norm Phlion complained that the decline of American civilisation began when Johnson & Johnson removed the tiny red thread from Band-Aid wrappers that made applying a …
