AL’S EMPORIUM: Why Can’t We Be Friends?
By AL LEWIS A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN Sure’d be nice to get some more kumbaya out of Congress these days. Like the kind I saw on Sunday morning between Arizona’s Sen. John McCain and Colorado’s Sen....
View ArticleAL’S EMPORIUM: ‘Unable To Meet Expectations’ At Stanford
When Charles Satterfield joined Stanford Financial Group in 2005 as managing director of fixed income, he had no idea this meant peddling Certificates of Deposit. “They wanted to tie my compensation...
View ArticleAL’S EMPORIUM: What Used To Be A Crime Is Now Just Banking
By Al Lewis A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN Terry Smiljanich was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Tampa, Fla., in the 1970s, prosecuting loan sharks. “Just like in the movies, guys would come down from New...
View ArticleAL’S EMPORIUM: Dark Horse Battles Predatory Lender
By Al Lewis A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN Another two million homeowners will suffer foreclosures by the end of this year. One of them, I am afraid, will be Sarah Schrock, 51, who lives in a quaint,...
View ArticleAL’S EMPORIUM: Starbucks Bites The Bullet
By Al Lewis A DOW JONES NEWSWIRES COLUMN Gun advocates have just sent a message to Starbucks customers: You can have my iced caramel macchiato when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. Starbucks says...
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