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? ...

This is House budget week, and with it comes the strong possibility that Republican leaders will bow to the demands of their die-hards and try to alter the deal reached in the Budget Control Act last year that ended the impasse on the debt limit and set caps on discretionary domestic and defense spending.

Do teachers work dramatically longer hours than other white collar professionals? No.

Of course President Obama does not want any more nuclear powers in Asia. But his policies are hastening that reality.

The Obama administration is not the first to fail to articulate a post-Cold War strategy for the United States, but the farther this can is kicked down the road the more difficult the challenge becomes. Our ability to secure the Middle East gives us enormous leverage over potential rivals like China, and is equally critical to our Asian allies like Japan and South Korea.

Republicans are jumping on the anti-earmark bandwagon after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced his support for a GOP earmark ban.

AB 32 would offer more drawbacks than benefits to California, which produces an insignificant fraction of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It would offer no climate-protection benefit, and instead cause California to shut down entirely.

Previous efforts by the Afghan government to negotiate peace with the Taliban have failed, and there is little hope the current process will bear fruit, so the United States and NATO should focus on defeating the Taliban and al-Qaeda.