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...three grown Hopper children - may try to pre-empt an estate battle by taking care of business before the funeral. "It's very common when we have couples marry later in life and one party develops an illness, the adult children will precipitate the initiation of divorce proceedings," says Joseph Cordell, a domestic-litigation attorney in Michigan. "They distrust the new spouse." Lest we forget, Anna Nicole Smith's fight for a share of her nonagenarian husband's estate went all the way to the Supreme Court. And she won. (See five Facebook no-nos for divorcing couples...
...Joseph E. Stiglitz...
Bankers are born no greedier than the rest of us. That assertion alone makes Joseph Stiglitz's comprehensive postmortem stand out from the reams of books published so far about the financial crisis. Instead of attacking individuals, the Nobel Prize--winning economist faults the system that delivered us to the brink, citing the effects of everything from deregulation to the misaligned incentives of people selling financial products. But Stiglitz has his sights on a larger problem as well. For too long, he argues, economists and policymakers have relied on the erroneous assumptions that markets are fundamentally efficient and material wealth...
...When you consider we transport 1.2 million people a day on our system, the number of crimes that occur on our system is incredibly low,” said Joseph O’Connor, deputy chief of the MBTA Transit Police...
...Genuine Progress Indicator, which incorporates aspects of social welfare such as income equity, pollution, and access to health care. In the international community, perhaps the biggest nudge has come from French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who commissioned a report by marquee-name economists, including Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, to find alternatives to what he calls "GDP fetishism". (See the best business deals...