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a- I suppose a whole generation will always remember where they were when they heard about 9/11, just as an earlier one never forgot where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. I was exactly where I am now, looking at a computer screen behind which, through the window, the Connecticut Berkshires roll away to the horizon, when I glanced at the TV and saw the World Trade Center in flames - just as I now see Mayor Bloomberg presiding over a remembrance ceremony. I went upstairs and told Maggy, ill in bed with the cancer that was to claim her life just 17 months later. Together, we watched...

Kass: Here's My Super Bowl Indicator for the Stock Market This year the Super Bowl Indicator says to short beer and food stocks, and to buy auto stocks! Stocks quotes in this article: KO, PEP "2020 was a great year... Not! It really sucked donkey. We just wanted to say we will see you soon for the game. We will see you on the Big Bowl..." Super Bowl commercial On Sunday, one of the grand sporting events of the year will take place: Super Bowl (LV) Fifty Five . Back in January 2000, I created a brand new stock market Super Bowl indicator as...

~~~ This is Masters in Business with Barry Ritholtz on Bloomberg Radio. BARRY RITHOLTZ, HOST, MASTERS IN BUSINESS: This week on the podcast, I have an extra, extra special guest. What can I say? Ron Baron, founder of Baron Capital, he’s a legend, I don’t even know where to begin with this guy. He founded Baron Capital in 1982, he performance numbers he’s put up have just been obscene. Everything he does, he seems to find his way to just spectacular returns whether it’s public companies, or private companies, or real estate, just Google search him on East Hampton and the property he bo...

Barron’s had crowed that there “has never been a President with a fundamental understanding of economics better” than Hoover’s, yet the stock market crash of 1929 and the onset of the Great Depression were so severe that Hoover had little scope for action. His bad fortune provided the impetus for the turn to Roosevelt, which to Barron’s dismay would last a generation, including eight years of Harry Truman and his “big-government boys.” But the pendulum would eventually swing back, and American politics since then has been characterized by fairly rapid swings between the extreme...

By the time of Abelson’s final column, on Feb. 11, 2013, three months before his death, he had lampooned several generations of politicians. As we approach Inauguration Day, here are some of his observations on U.S. presidents coming and going, through the decades. Abelson didn’t address Richard Nixon’s first inauguration, in 1969, and he took a somber look at the problems facing Nixon in his second term, including a slowing economy and overseas entanglements. “Call us a cockeyed optimist,” Abelson wrote on Jan. 22, 1973, “but we think the pause that depresses will end when the wa...