The Republican Party, despite making its one salient point (politicizing intelligence during an election) long ago, simply refuses to let the Benghazi attack fade. Whether the motivation to continue comes from some vague hope in snagging Hillary Clinton in a 2016 attack ad worthy story or just a lingering...
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The yield on the 10-year Treasury has jumped to 1.949% from about 1.6% in early May. Lawrence C. Strauss asks:
CEO and CIO, Cutwater Asset Management
"2.50%. As the economy continues to recover, we see a move from the risk-free to the

Understandably, Connecticut has always had a bit of an inferiority complex. Wedged in just north of high profile states like New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, while looked down on by the erudite Massachusetts, the only state that even talks to Connecticut when the states get together is Rhode Island. And it’s no secret that the rest of the N
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Not even a week after Buzzfeed’s relationship with the Koch Brothers is exposed do we learn that a near civil war erupted in public television over documentaries that focused on Charles and David Koch. In an expose written by Jane Mayer of the New...
If you can't beat them, join them. That's exactly what a growing contingent of companies unable to match the stock-market performance of real-estate investment trusts are doing.
In recent years, REITs, aided by investors' rabid appetite for income-producing investments, consistently have trumped the broad market. Last year, while the S&P 500
...Our own Adelle Banks has a growing roundup of religious groups that were caught up in the IRS dragnet of conservative nonprofits; we’ll keep adding to it, and let us know if there’s someone we’re missing.
WaPo reports on the growing number of seminary grads who have no intention of ever going into the pulpit .