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Hoffmans, Lara

Lara is a Vice President of Content at Fisher Investments, and has been with the firm since 2004. She has co-authored several New York Times bestselling books with Fisher Investments CEO, Ken Fisher, and is a Managing Editor for MarketMinder.com. Lara also contributes articles regularly to Forbes.com. Click here for access to her Fisher Investments Forbes commentary.

A Look at Year Four

03/15/2012

What's in store for year four?

The EU Fights for Your Rights (to Party)

04/22/2010
Fears our nation is heading for socialism are overwrought. The EU is a different story.

We're Number Eight!

02/08/2010
If being "number one” were a vital investing concern, we'd all invest in Luxembourg and call it a day.

Macbeth and Mirrorballs

08/21/2009
Macbeth is Shakespeare's shortest play, and perhaps his most instructive for politicians. Swap out witches for lobbyists divining the future in a swamp, and it's not Scotland—it's modern day DC.

Michigan’s Tragi-Comedy

06/01/2009
Unless you're a Lansing fourth-grader or a Latin geek, it's unlikely you can translate: "Si quaeris peninsulam amoenam circumspice.” But all Michiganders know "if you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you.”

Deregulation . . . Regulation . . . What’s the Difference?

01/05/2009
The problem with the past decade of financial deregulation is there hasn't been any deregulation.

An Army of Willing Dupes

07/11/2007
Recently, while waiting to pay an exorbitant premium for organic tomatoes at Whole Foods, I had a revelation. No, it wasn't that the marketing term "organic” is simply the most impressive scam ever widely perpetrated on humanity—though it is.

Gap Schmap

03/21/2007
"Income inequality" is the story that refuses to die, and is likely to persist throughout 2007.

Chavez, Gore, and a Yale Tenor Walk Into a Bar...

02/16/2007
Good news for Prius-driving San Franciscans.

The Annual Hoff Report

01/17/2007
The Hoff report is an annual forecast, not of capital markets, but impending news headlines.

“USA! USA!”

01/03/2007
Scanning recent news articles, one cannot help but wonder if the journalistic position de rigeur is the US is a crumbling empire, and the demise can't come soon enough to satisfy The New York Times.

Flipping Housing Bubble

12/12/2006
You are in mortal peril.

 

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