Republican Party

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  Andy Friedman: Which Wealth Transfer Tactics Will Survive Congress?

  By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne  |  May 22, 2013

  Act now to transfer wealth, Washington Update analyst Andy Friedman warns, because Congress is likely to close some loopholes while forging a budget compromise needed to raise the debt limit.

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  Sallie Krawcheck to Buy 85 Broads, a Global Women’s Network

  By James J. Green, AdvisorOne  |  May 15, 2013

  The former Merrill broker chief says she’s happy to become the leader of 85 Broads, a group with 30,000 members from 130 countries.

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  Sallie Krawcheck Decries Industry ‘Becoming Republican Party’

  By John Sullivan, AdvisorOne  |  May 4, 2013

  “It is my intention to be controversial and make us uncomfortable here today,” Sallie Krawcheck said. She didn’t disappoint.

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  7 Key Tax Protests That Shook America

  By Dan Berman, AdvisorOne  |  March 14, 2013

  Resisters have tried violence and politics, but the taxes keep rolling on.

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  Paul Ryan’s Budget: Something for Everyone (to Criticize)

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  March 13, 2013

  "The president promises big government and Ryan promises smaller big government,” a Cato Institute analyst says, while others say cuts are still too big.

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  Sequestration Cuts Imminent; Government Shutdown Looms

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 25, 2013

  As the nation braced for the $85 billion in sequestration cuts to kick in on March 1, Joe Lieber of Washington Analysis laid out the “numerous tools available” to blunt sequestration’s impact.

• Leading With Flair

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  February 22, 2013

  Don’t even think of typecasting or pigeonholing Angela Graham-West. The university professor-turned-financial advisor fits no mold whatsoever.

• Who’s Kidding Whom on Bubbles?

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  February 22, 2013

  Two types of bubble metaphor— as inflating unsustainably, and as thick or opaque—have an underlying similarity in that they involve perceptions being distorted.

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  Obama Presses for Delay, but Sequestration Cuts Imminent

  By Melanie Waddell, AdvisorOne  |  February 6, 2013

  President Barack Obama urged Congress Tuesday to delay the looming sequestration cuts by passing a package of both spending cuts and tax hikes, but reports said Wednesday that Obama’s plan was DOA in the House.

• Political Stand-Offs

  By Kenneth Silber, Research  |  January 23, 2013

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