Eric Dutram: Despite recent market turmoil, 2012 has been a good year for the stock markets so far. After a dismal performance of the broader markets in the previous fiscal year, we finally seem to be treading along the paths of economic recovery, at least in the U.S. Read more…

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Joseph L. Shaefer: Western European and US governments share something in common: the US government thought certain favored donors, er, “financial institutions,” were too big to fail. That’s nothing new. The government, or US taxpayers, have been bailing out Wall Street and the big money center Read more…

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