Sad Sign of the Times
Rajat Gupta, former CEO of the consulting firm McKinsey, was sentenced today to two years in Federal prison for insider …
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The Secret to Becoming Rich!
Gold is the only answer! Equities are dead ! The U.S. is bankrupt ! Neel Kashkari, of PIMCO, has written …
1%, 99%, 47%
Throughout the last year, %’s have become powerful shorthand for a particular grievance or point of view. Most recently, Mitt …
Congressmen and Insider Trading- Continued
I’m astounded at the hypocrisy of the government’s continued pursuit of insider trading ( seven more charged today) while congress …
Recommended: Where are the Customers’ Yachts?
“Where are the Customers’ Yachts?” is a Wall Street classic about the financial management business. The title itself gives you …
Dodd Frank – Spare Us
As I mentioned in an earlier post, the “consumer” protections offered in the Dodd Frank bill to debit card holders actually …
Another Good Source of Ideas
Joel Greenblatt is a value investor who has developed a website- Magic Formula Investing- which finds stocks that have a relatively high …
More On Dividend Stocks
There have been a number of articles recently about the attractiveness of dividend paying stocks. Today’s NY Times has an …
Shareholders and Executive Compensation
A recent report that the Apple CEO was getting one million restricted shares( worth about $400mm) reminds me to actually …
Dividends are Nice but…
..don’t pay too much for them. As I mentioned in an earlier post, a company may be a great company …
