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...very, very sorry to say that my business is skyrocketing," the personal-finance guru Suze Orman said one late January afternoon. The Dow was down almost 200 points, and Orman was lounging on the terrace of her San Francisco town house, wearing a leopard-print tunic and cowboy boots. She looked up and popped a grape into her mouth. "This is happening because of the lies and deceit and greed of Wall Street, the mortgage companies, the SEC, the Administration," she said, growing agitated. Her outlook on the economy is practically apocalyptic: Millions more jobs will be lost, the stock...
After her CNBC taping finished, Orman swept across the parking lot toward a waiting Town Car. Her longtime driver, Jean Germain, a strapping gentleman from Haiti, came rushing over to take a garment bag from her hands. In lieu of a bonus, last year Orman opened a retirement account for him and made the maximum contribution of $5,000. The cash is sitting in a money-market fund until she decides that the market has bottomed out. She plans to dollar-cost-average into exchange-traded funds and a few individual stocks, as she suggests doing in her books. (Read...
...market keeps dropping, which she expects, she plans to invest more: "It wouldn't surprise me if in the next year or two, I have close to $2 or $3 million in the market," she said. She values her five homes at $15 million: the San Francisco town house; a two-bedroom beach condo near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; a house in South Africa; and two apartments in Manhattan. Orman believes that people who don't have money shouldn't buy things--they should fund their IRAs instead--while those who have a lot of it should spread it around...
...decided to make a movie—one that would use this premise to raise questions of absolute love, power, need, and want. “Absurdistan”—filmed in the desert villages of Azerbaijan—is more than just the story of a town-wide sex strike; it’s an enchanting tale of romantic and poetic love. There is very little dialogue—all of which is delivered in German, adding to the otherness of the film’s overall impression—and most information is relayed through...
...thought why not keep him around for jobs I’m too busy for. He’s well-bred—with his manners, I mean—and he’s good for watching Winnie when I can’t go with her into town.”Mrs. Graham nodded, disbelieving, and the organ rumbled from inside. Now Ezekiel moved right in front of the usher’s face. A reluctant chat was beginning. I thought I heard the older man say that “it don?...