Why are so many investors boors?

I’m not talking about a couple of bad eggs here or there.  As far as I can tell, there’s a distinctive phenotype that may not describe all investors, but certainly seems to capture far more than chance alone would dictate.

Boors, you ask? ...

A look at what happens when health spending rises much faster than either national income or household wealth.

The Bush administration must decide on whether to add polar bears to the endangered species list by May 16. Its answer may have serious consequences for the U.S. energy economy.

Listing polar bears as endangered could seal a cap-and-trade response to carbon emissions and end Arctic oil and gas exploration.

One of the iron laws of U.S. news reporting is that the economy gets positive reviews under Democratic presidents and negative reviews under Republican presidents.

The influence of economic policy on stock prices is evident in both the recent correction in the high technology sector and the broader bull market that started in the early 1980s.

With the Dow Jones industrials on the brink of 10,000, you might think this would be a period of celebration and congratulation.

April 1 may be a day for jokes, but on Sunday Japan ceded to the United States a distinction that is no laughing matter: the highest combined statutory corporate tax rate (state, local, and federal) in the developed world.