The Affairs Organizer Blog

Check out “Free Ivy-League Lectures on the Economy” by Barry Ritholtz on his blog The Big Picture. While I’m not one who believes the Ivy League has cornered the market on great ideas* or analysis or teaching, there are many useful resources. *In fact, many of those who bear significant responsibility for the Great Recession [...]

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In this WSJ “Wealth Report” blog entry, Robert Frank writes: “Lesson to billionaires: get a will. Especially if you have fathered nine children with mistresses. That sounds blindingly obvious, of course. But a nasty estate fight breaking out in New Jersey demonstrates that even multibillionaires can sometimes neglect the most basic of wealth-management issues.” Bookmark [...]

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Melinda Beck, in this Wall Street Journal article, outlines the long line of women in her family who have suffered from osteoporosis. Here are my remarks in the comments section: Ms. Beck, you hit the nail on the head about being aware of our genetic predispositions. I’m sorry for the loss of your great-grandmother, grandmother [...]

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This WSJ article has a few ideas about steps businesses should take towards creating a disaster plan. Excerpt: “Review insurance policies. …(including) property insurance policies, which cover the cost of replacing damaged or destroyed equipment or buildings. But also consider business interruption insurance, which covers lost income in the event that your business is forced [...]

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An interesting article in The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell about the psychology of overconfidence and how it relates to the behavior (and losses) of banks in the sub-prime meltdown. Excerpts: “One of the things that happen to us when we become overconfident is that we start to blur the line between the kinds of [...]

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Below is an excerpt from Peter Bregman’s blog post “An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day”: “Managing our time needs to become a ritual too. Not simply a list or a vague sense of our priorities. That’s not consistent or deliberate. It needs to be an ongoing process we follow no matter what to keep [...]

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Here’s an interesting article from The New York Times by Gabrielle Glaser, published: April 18, 2009 “EVEN in these hard times, Peter Moloney, a funeral director, believes that people should have what they want. lthough not all of his customers can fully express their wishes, Mr. Moloney and his brothers, who own six funeral homes [...]

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