With insurers among the first to line up for a federal bailout, followed by the auto industry, speculation has run rampant over who might line up next.  While suspects such …  Read →

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 →

Previous posts had argued that Sen. Max Baucus might trump Sen. Edward (Ted) Kennedy in getting universal healthcare on the national agenda, while Kennedy himself tried to overstep President-elect Barack …  Read →

Variable annuities appear to be causing stockholders at insurance companies like Hartford Financial Services, Lincoln National Corp. and Prudential Financial offering these products to develop a case of the jitters, …  Read →

According to a great column by Anna Wilde Mathews in the Wall Street Journal, Americans overall will fare slightly better under health care changes proposed by Sen. John McCain than …  Read →

In these difficult times, where everyone is struggling to make sense and make money in the floundering economy, a little humor in the form of the 20 most unusual names …  Read →