Tag: Stock Market

Income and wealth disparity growing over a period of decades: When will it stop?

I previously posted here about a great Washington Post piece on income disparity in America. Recently, there have been a couple of Wall Street Journal blog posts by Robert Frank dealing with income and wealth disparity in relatively recent U.S.…

Really, how high did everyone think stocks could go in this economy?

I’ll begin this post with a bit of candor: I moved almost all of my retirement savings out of stocks in the early part of 2010. So I missed the big run-up of the last 15 months, and I missed…

How today’s stock selloff compares to other bad days

Stocks fell dramatically today, but we’ve seen plenty of larger one day declines. In terms of percentage drops for the S&P 500, we actually had 11 days with worse declines in 2008 and 2 more in the opening weeks of…

Ezra Klein: “Where will the recovery come from?”

I’ll have more to say later about today’s big stock sell off, but some might be interested in a post I made a little over three weeks ago: Thoughts on the Main Street/Wall Street disconnect In today’s Washington Post, in…