Milton Friedman

• Political Stand-Offs

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  January 23, 2013

  Polarization has become a pervasive and much-noted feature of American politics.

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  MSSB Loses $600 Million Lerner Group to HighTower

  By Joyce Hanson, AdvisorOne  |  July 16, 2012

  This is the seventh new advisor team in 2012 to join the Chicago-based financial services firm run by CEO Elliot Weissbluth.

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  Solving America’s Income-Deficit Problem

  By Ronald Delegge, ETFguide.com  |  June 4, 2012

  Social Security now pays out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes. What does that mean for your clients' portfolio plans?

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  Krugman, Paul Clash on Policy, Inflation, Role of Fed

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  April 30, 2012

  Sparks flew when Paul Krugman and Rep. Ron Paul faced off on Bloomberg TV's "Street Smart" Monday afternoon.

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  Milevsky: How Much in Risky Stocks vs. Safe Cash?

  By Moshe A. Milevsky  |  April 25, 2012

  From a purely mathematical point of view, the “stocks are safer over long periods of time” argument ­— before Paul Samuelson took an axe to it — went as follows.

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  Mary Schapiro and the Strange Case of ‘Business-Model Neutral’

  By Bob Clark, AdvisorOne  |  December 13, 2011

  Here's a thought. What if all our laws and regulations were 'business-model neutral,' like our drug and gun laws?

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  Top 10 Terrible Predictions About Economy

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  November 11, 2011

  On 11/11/11, while the world still exists despite some predictions otherwise, a review by AdvisorOne of 10 terrible predictions about the markets and the economy.

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  Economic Jump-Start

  By Alexei Bayer  |  October 26, 2011

  The principle of homeopathic medicine is to “let like be cured by like”: treat an illness by giving patients minute quantities of medicines that produce the same symptoms. But treating indigestion with a 10-course meal is not a good idea. This is why throwing borrowed funds at the current economic...

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  Finding Value in a Loser’s Game

  By Bob Seawright, Madison Avenue Securities  |  September 30, 2011

  As John Kenneth Galbraith famously pointed out, we have two classes of forecasters: those who don’t know and those who don’t know they don’t know.

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  How a Freethinking Economist Saved Your Retirement Portfolio

  By Gerald Burstyn  |  September 29, 2011

  Research by economist Richard Thaler, a professor at the University of Chicago, has “nudged” vast numbers of Americans to a higher savings rate.