We're in a season when experts and pundits like to make predictions about what will happen next year.
But an interesting column found at Marketwatch.com casts doubt on the value of those predictions. "Stocks that were recommended most highly at the start of 2015 by the highly trained, highly educated, highly paid experts on Wall Street did worse this year than a bunch of stocks picked at random."
The dynamics fueling the surging campaigns of presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are more similar than not, as the success of the upstart Sanders, running for the Democratic nomination, and the outsider Trump, in the Republican race, shows how turned off some American voters are by "establishment" contenders.
On the surface, the two candidates appear to be exact opposites. Trump, a billionaire developer and reality television star from Manhattan, has branded Sanders, a senator from Vermont and former Burlington mayor, a "commie maniac." For his part, the self-avowed democratic socialist has tarred the New Yorker as representing the "greed of corporate America."
