Like most bloggers, I have a big fat mouth and sometimes it opens before the brain it’s attached to can complete the necessary processes. UNLIKE most bloggers, however, I’m not afraid to admit when I’ve spoken in error and I am certainly no stranger to making apologies. Get ready for a little contrition, as there…
Gary Dvorchak's Look at 2010's Smartphone Wars
Gary Dvorchak did an excellent 2010 Year in Review piece on TheStreet.com this morning. That’s not a typo, he’s got the same type of imagination that I have and has put it to use in order to formulate a list of events that could take place in the coming year…
Hot Links: Global Currency, Super Bowl Ads & The Big Zero Decade
Hot Links for Morning Reading…
More Evidence That High CEO Pay Is Detrimental To Shareholders
I’m gonna keep harping on this issue until Say On Pay gets done for shareholders and apparently, so will Jason Zweig. If you’re not familiar with Zweig, he’s the Wall Street Journal‘s Intelligent Investor columnist and he’s doing phenomenal work in exposing the failure of corporate boards, directors and executives and said failure’s effects on…
A Return to Normalcy…on the Surface
These are not empirical data points, to be sure, but are they worth noticing? Do they signal a return to the way things were?
Corporate Boards: A National Embarrassment
Gretchen Morgenson takes on one of the most crucial factors of our decennis horribilis in the stock market: the failure of corporate board culture.
about that 00's decade…
about that 00’s decade…
The Myth of the Moat
It’s not that The Moat doesn’t matter in stock selection, it’s that, like most analytic concepts, it doesn’t always matter.
"You Underestimate My Sneakiness"
Christmas F Words: Family, Friends, Fezziwig, Fireplace, Fa La La, Frosty the Snowman, etc. This year, we got two more: Fannie and Freddie, the GSE’s that caught an unlimited bailout surprise this Christmas while no one was looking (or approving). Geithner has authorized the removal of the $400 billion cap in terms of Treasury support…
Punishing the Ant, Rewarding the Grasshopper
One of the more perverse features of the bailout/ rescue/ stimulus plan is the fact that ultra-low rates are doing a great deal of damage to senior citizens and those who have been saving responsibly and coninue to attempt to do so.
