Archive for August, 2008

The woman who called Wall Street’s meltdown

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Financial news of the day - CNNMoney.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptIt’s the first time I’ve seen Wall Street’s toughest analyst look rattled. I’m sitting ringside at the WWE’s Great American Bash at New York’s Nassau Coliseum with Meredith Whitney - the Oppenheimer & Co. analyst renowned for her smackdowns [...]

The estate tax: McCain vs. Obama

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Financial news of the day - CNNMoney.com wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptFor a tax that each year affects only a few hundred of the nation’s 27 million small companies, the estate tax manages to scare an outsize number of entrepreneurs: In a July Zogby poll of small-business owners, nearly half [...]