The Bernie Madoff scandal was a strong undercurrent that surfaced during the 2009 Bluegrass Business Summit on Thursday.
How can investors avoid being ripped off by the likes of Madoff?
A titan among Wall Street investment fund managers, Madoff has confessed to running a Ponzi scheme that may have clipped his clients for $50 billion over the [...]
Got a letter from my bank the other day.
It said I had written a check that bounced, but my bank’s overdraft-protection program had covered it.
The amount was $800,085.
My brain swelled as I tried to figure how long it would take to repay this debt on a journalist’s wages.
I stopped counting at about 40 years when [...]
Stuart Hoffman is “110 percent certain” that the nation is in a recession.
Other economists are still avoiding the R-word on technical grounds, but Hoffman confidently declares that the United States has been in a recession “for at least the last four or five months if not longer.”
Unemployment is up, spending is down and personal incomes [...]
Fast food does it. So do lotteries. Now a bank is doing it, too.
You can walk into any branch of Fifth Third Bank and request a “Unlock Your Dreams” game piece that you can scratch off and win instant prizes, like a $10 MasterCard Gift Card, or get your name in a drawing for $250,000 [...]
One of Lexington’s most high-profile female executives, Laura Boison, has left Chase after 30 years with that bank and its predecessors.
She is now at the Lexington investment management firm of E.S. Barr & Co.
“I think they were counting me with the furniture,” Boison said, joking about her longevity at Chase. “No officer has been with [...]
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