I don’t often write about investing or the stock market. You probably shouldn’t put much stock in anything I have to say. That disclaimed. You should be buying Microsoft, Apple and Google. And when you’re done buying you should buy some more. MSFT...
CEO –Chief Embezzlement Officer. CFO— Corporate Fraud Officer. BULL MARKET — A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius. BEAR MARKET — A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife...
To, continue the conversation…. Joe, like you I have an imperfect understanding of the situation. I don’t have an overall theory as to why things occurred as they did. Here’s a few factors that I think at least contributed… I think there was a...
A friend asked me to jot down some thoughts on The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002, commonly called SOX was enacted in 2002 in response to a number of major corporate and accounting scandals...
I’ve stayed away from the mortgage mess for the most part. I wanted to specifically share this article however because it is written by Bill Gross, who is generally recognized as the top bond guru in the world. Understand this one thing before you read the...
Umair Haque at Harvard gives us this article discussing The Shrinking Advantage of Brands. The genesis of the article is a report that Google has become the top brand in the world even though it intentionally avoids traditional brand advertising. Haque defines a brand...
