Mystery regarding the Social Security system and how long and if it will pay retirees benefits is nothing new. Now a book, promising to “expose the truth” about the Social Security trust fund, is shrouded in its own mystery.

Everyone knows the property-casualty insurance world is hurting. Any agent will tell you that the market is soft (isn’t it more Koosh ball squishy) and that, despite stimulus spending, there remain fewer construction projects for which insurance is needed.

The number of insurance industry mergers and acquisitions has jumped in the last few months, after two years of minimal activity.

About six weeks ago, I suggested in this blog that AIG stood for Anything I can Get and that’s exactly what the global insurer has proven. Since that pronouncement, the …  Read →