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Financial Infidelity By Bonnie Eaker Weil Hudson Street; 312 pages...
...lesson applies. And this provocative new book makes a compelling case that financial infidelity--lying to your partner about how much you spend, secretly playing the stock market or piling up debts--can be just as damaging to a relationship as adultery. "The dangerous thing about financial infidelity," writes Weil, "is not the secret itself, but the act of conscious deception in a relationship." Weil, a psychologist in New York City with 30 years of experience counseling troubled couples, takes an uncompromising position: "There's no such thing as an innocent financial fib." Even if you don't accept...
...Weil helpfully points out the lipstick-on-the-collar warning signs of trouble: maxed-out credit cards, bank accounts with cash missing or unaccounted for, a refusal to discuss finances or unopened bills and general secrecy about money. And watch out for a pattern of revenge shopping binges following fights...
...explain why outsourcing is blossoming in the legal profession, which is known--and often despised--for its high prices. Law-firm partners bill at a national average of $318 per hr. and at $550 per hr. at large New York City firms, according to a 2007 survey by Altman Weil, a legal-consulting company. Starting salaries for attorneys at some large firms now stand at $160,000. So a U.S. company's simple problem can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees...
...according to the International Swaps and Derivatives Association. This is roughly twice the size of the U.S. stock market (which is valued at about $22 trillion and falling) and far exceeds the $7.1 trillion mortgage market and $4.4 trillion U.S. treasuries market, notes Harvey Miller, senior partner at Weil, Gotshal & Manges. "It could be another - I hate to use the expression - nail in the coffin," said Miller, when referring to how this troubled CDS market could impact the country's credit crisis...