Some companies do in fact retain their gains while others fail and fade like a fading rocket.

Maybe with the market rebounding, some companies are getting ready to test the waters again. But the IPO market is still bad and there's no room for error,

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize that a handful of insurance companies with a stranglehold on the market can raise rates.

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.

It's a huge race to the bottom in terms of what companies are doing to their workers. Communities in this country are losing good-paying manufacturing jobs. And there's more of a loss of white-collar jobs ? in engineering, information technology, call centers, help desks. Nothing's insulated or protected from this fast-paced movement of capital out of the high-wage, industrialized countries of the world.