Alternative investments becoming the Fastest Growing Fund Category attracting 260 billion, 60 billion just this year. Are these alternatives to far off the beaten path . The author of the piece of the dangers you need to be aware of we have Senior Special writer at the wall street journal. Welcome back. I read your story with great interest but this seems every investment the stars with wealthy investors comes down to the middle class is this another case of that . This is the way the big boys play now y have a shot. Something available to only those of many millions of dollars and now there is the retail investments. Gerri what are you investing in . Normally a mutual fund small stocks soared small stocks a whole investment category the uses the strategies of derivatives, or unusual investments such as realestate or junk bonds from private companies. Gerri so with those investments the fees make me sit up to take notice. Investors need to see if they can stoma the fees. For the altern
Alternative investments becoming the Fastest Growing Fund Category attracting 260 billion, 60 billion just this year. Are these alternatives to far off the beaten path . The author of the piece of the dangers you need to be aware of we have Senior Special writer at the wall street journal. Welcome back. I read your story with great interest but this seems every investment the stars with wealthy investors comes down to the middle class is this another case of th . This is the way the big boys play now you have a shot. Something available to only those of many millions of dollars and now there is the retail investments. Gerri what are you investing in . Normally a mutual fund small stocks soared small stocks a whole investment category the uses the strategies of derivatives, or unusual investments such realestateor junk bonds from private companies. Gerri so with those investments the fees make me sit up to take notice. Investors need to see if they can stomach the fees. For the alternat
Simic in the period after world war ii in the middle class was the engine of our prosperity. Whether you owned a company or swapped its floors or worked anywhere in between this country offered to a basic mark. A sense that your hard work would be reworded with fair wages and deep benefits, the chance to buy a home save for retirement, and most of all a chance to hand out a better life for your kids. But over time, that engine began to stall and a lot of folks here saw. The board and began to fray. We start with Kevin Williamson in this event mr. Williamson talks about the imbalance of wealth in america. You remember this oliver stone movie wall street and the character who gets hung around our necks as a poster board for capitalism. What i like is the famous poster using the motorola cell phone from 1984. Because i am under i have an interest in technology and cell phones and such. This is the 40th anniversary its been a mixed blessing obviously. The motorola brick that he had cost al
It goes around cancun and up toward new orleans and then back down again and around through the florida straits. But were seeing the wind speeds now increase. Hurricane hunters seeing the pressure go down. When i tweet that, saying the pressure is going to go down, everybody is saying, is that good or bad . If the pressure goes down, the winds go up. Its like a low pressure in the winter where the lower the pressure, the close you are you are to a blizzard. So the lower the pressure, the worse it is for a hurricane as well. Everywhere that you see red, thats a hurricane warning. Theres going to be damage everywhere theres red. That includes new orleans. I know were talking about biloxi and gulf port and all that but this storm, the western eye wall, will be very close to new orleans proper, so probably a wind speed there of 75 or 85 Miles Per Hour where the right side of the storm, the east part of the eye wall, will be 105, maybe even greater than that, and thats where the storm surge
Prosecution alleges Gary Johnson, 63, showed up at hospital staffer's home in April with a condom, a key to her front door and a bottle of a general anesthetic used in surgeries.