Framing climate change as an economic risk has, in the last several years, galvanized investor and regulatory attention, as well as a small cadre of influential business and financial leaders. Initial, risk mitigating strategies for U.S. companies concerned with the potentially-harsh...

Warren Buffett's major stock investments from 2008 through 2013 are reviewed, accompanied by depictions of some of the public positions he adopted, including the Buffett Rule, which calls for a minimum tax on high incomes. During the illiquidity and credit crisis of 2008-09, he invested about...

A PowerPoint presentation, Mortgage Crisis led to Credit and Illiquidity Crisis, delineates the key factors which the author believes enabled the contagious-but-confinable risks of the mortgage crisis to spread to the entire financial market. The prime cause was the weakened health of leveraged...

The current recession's impact on unemployment has been more pernicious than even the usual indicators show. The underemployment rate – which also counts part-time workers whose hours have been cut or would like to be working full-time – is almost certainly at its highest level since the...

An assessment is presented of whether Greece's current plight is a harbinger of similar adverse conditions likely to directly impact the United States in the intermediate- to long-term future.Long-term deficits projected for 2020 and beyond, under the assumption that the economy is in full...