From Bismarck to Bush
8/1/2008
By KENNETH SILBER
On November 17, 1881, German Kaiser Wilhelm I issued an imperial decree stating that “those who are disabled from work by age and invalidity have a well-grounded claim to care from the state.” The driving force behind this pronouncement was Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who had unified
Germany
, unleashed victorious wars against
Austria
and
France
and was now intent on creating the world’s first broadly available pension system.
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Portrait of a Rookie (Part III)
8/1/2008
By JANE WOLLMAN RUSOFF
Up-and-at-’
em
at 5:30 in the morning for a pre-breakfast military-style work-out in the park: push-ups, weight-lifting,
a
two-mile run. Is boot camp any way for a financial advisor to kick off his 11-hour work-day?
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