UFE in the News

What's the ‘Color of Wealth'? (Op-ed)

bob — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

by Sean Gonsalves

I'm morally exhausted from dealing with, and talking about, race too.

But if we're going to have a conversation, I like the tone and tenor set by the Senator from Illinois after being forced to go there because of a transparently hypocritical "controversy" in which the black guy is predictably caricatured as "anti-American" and/or "anti-white reverse racist."

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Investors Favored Over Wage Earners (Op-ed)

bob — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700

BY GERALD E. SCORSE,
BOSTON

OVER THE LAST DECADE, nobody has gotten more love from Washington than investors. It's time to stop and ask if the love is misplaced.

Investor-love settled in on the Potomac in 1997, when President Clinton cut the tax on long-term capital gains to 20 percent from 28 percent. In 2003, President Bush kept the love coming from the GOP side. He took another 5 percentage points off the capital-gains rate and slashed the levy on corporate dividends as well.

Breaking the Silence

bob — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:59:36 -0700

WHEN Dal LaMagna, founder of the Tweezerman company, considered how to leave his wealth to his two children, he thought back to his early 30s, just before he achieved success. At the time, said Mr. LaMagna, 61, "I thought if I could get 600 bucks a week, I could retire on that, and I would be very happy."