The Affairs Organizer Blog

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 us [...]

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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 on Long [...]

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The Wall Street Journal’s Shelly Banjo knocked the ball out of the park with this article.
1. What’s in the adviser’s background?
2. What do the adviser’s clients say?
3. How does the adviser get paid?
4. Where are the adviser’s checks and balances?
5. What’s the adviser’s track record?
6. Can the adviser put it in writing?
7. What [...]

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FRONTLINE investigates how the economy went so bad so fast and what Bernanke and Paulson didn’t see, couldn’t stop and weren’t able to fix.
On Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008, the astonished leadership of the U.S. Congress was told in a private session by the chairman of the Federal Reserve that the American economy was in grave [...]

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Many thanks for another great visual guide from the talented people at WallStats.com

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What a fantastic job by Wallstats.com (a very interesting and informative site) visually describing the events leading up to the current financial crisis:

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Today’s Wall Street Journal article “Builders Make Plea for Federal Aid” by Nick Timiraos reports:
“The builders’ lobby is ramping up its sales pitch for a $250 billion stimulus package called “Fix Housing First,” arguing that financial markets won’t recover until home prices stop falling. They are calling for a generous tax credit for home purchases [...]

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