Except for the occasional doctor’s appointment or bad cold, Irving Kahn hasn’t skipped a day of work in more years than he can remember. And he can remember plenty of them: He’s 105.

MF Global Inc.’s workforce of 1,066 broker-dealer employees was fired as the failed brokerage closes its New York office and liquidates in an attempt to return assets to customers under the guidance of a trustee.

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There’s an old Jewish proverb that goes something like this: If the fish and the bird fall in love, where would they live?

This will not be a political post; regular readers know that I am post-partisan and that I straddle the center whilst hurling bricks at both parties from the inside-out.

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There are a Million Ministers of This or That prancing around Europe and at any given time one of them could drunkenly lean into a microphone somewhere and rip a trillion dollars off of the globe’s market cap.