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- michael m. grynbaum (The New York Times)
Words: mr, dow, investors, economy, oil
Topics: Federal Reserve, Dow Jones, New York, Wall Street, United States
- vikas bajaj (The New York Times)
Words: investors, mr, mortgage, rate, investment
Topics: Federal Reserve, New York, Merrill Lynch, United States, Fannie Mae
- james hamilton (Econbrowser)
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Words: mr, street, house, ms, million
Topics: New York, Manhattan, Brooklyn, United States, U.S. Republican Party
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Articles Written by: DAN DORFMAN
Who is This?
Dan Dorfman (Born Oct. 24, 1931) is a columnist for the New York Sun newspaper. Dorfman was a prominent CNBC commentor in the 1990s and a columnist for Money magazine. He also was a CNN financial news commentator in the 1980s, and a Wall Street Journal columnist early in his career.
Maybe I'll toast in the new year with beer, not champagne. Why so? Read on.
First, seeing is believing, not hearing is believing. It's worth keeping that in mind since with less than seven weeks to go before we're in 2010, you'll soon be bombarded in ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
22 Nov 2009
Wild, off-the-wall gold forecasts -- some of which have proved to be anything but wild or off the wall -- are a dime a dozen. Here's one that floored me; maybe it'll floor you, too.
First, the last thing I want to do is sound like a broken record after ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
20 Nov 2009
How Sweet it is! Or maybe not.
That's a reference to an every day occurrence. Some guy comes up with an ingenious product that he thinks is a far superior mousetrap. But skeptics ridicule the idea and the creator goes through some hellish times with a ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
19 Nov 2009
One of Edgar Allen Poe's most famous stories was The Gold-Bug. Written in 1843, it dealt with a man, William Legrand, who was deemed to be mentally ill because he was obsessed with finding gold after being bitten by the gold bug. He was likened to ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
13 Nov 2009
Hallelujah! The latest jobs numbers, though pretty darn ugly, are beginning to throw off some hopeful signs.
If you're skeptical, that's legitimate, since companies continue to chop their work force big time. The latest is Johnson & Johnson, which ...
Brett Favre, the aging 40-year-old quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings football team, proved to the rest of us Sunday that getting older doesn't mean you're losing it. To the contrary, demonstrating that novelist Thomas Wolfe was wrong in his belief ...
With Thanksgiving Day (November 26) less than a month away, let's talk turkey. No, not the turkey we can't wait to eat, but what some Wall Street professionals regard as the "economic turkeys."
They're the ones operating on the delusional premise that ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
28 Oct 2009
Wall Street's bad guys could be at it again.
In this case, another potential significant insider trading scandal--one of several under investigation--could be in the works. The most recent one being looked at centers on one of the year's biggest and ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
23 Oct 2009
Hey, with the economy perking up, the Dow recently sprinting above 10,000, a sizzling jump of more than 50% from its March low, and growing talk out of Washington that we'll have a national health bill before year end, things are slowly starting to ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
18 Oct 2009
With Halloween just around the corner, face masks of ghosts, ghouls, goblins and Godzilla are already starting to rack up some brisk sales. Maybe you've already bought one of them. One fella, though, who won't be sporting any horror mask at his ...
From DAN DORFMAN,
Huffington Post,
14 Oct 2009
