Finance Roundtable
Finance Roundtable
The market forecasters and personal finance blogs complement the Economics Roundtable.
Monty’s Bluff
Barry Ritholtz over at The Big Bicture said it quite succinctly when he commented in response to Gretchen Morgenson’s Oct 30 NT Times column, in which she chastises CEO’s who attack stock analysts.
My attitude is even simpler: With over 9,000 stocks to choose from domestically, why ever get ...
I am finally getting to reading today’s news. I see The Wall Street Journal has a story about the SEC’s inquiry into pension accounting at some big name companies. I always like to see the SEC beating the bushes to do its job, though smoothing earnings using pension ...
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that companies must pay workers for the time it takes them to change into their safety and protective gear and walk to their work station.
How unfair is that! Workers aren’t paid to walk…they’re paid to work. That’s why they’re called ...
Why does the American public continue to express feelings of distrust towards corporations? Despite the great advantages of our economic system, why do many individuals still perceive that business organizations are acting in ways counter to the good of the country? Perhaps a look at the priorities, and ...
A question posed by a friend recently about this blog. I have many answers to this question but the most obvious one is the simplest one. There is no need to report positive news about public companies. Companies have multiple employees whose only job is to ensure ...
Much has been happening while I have been away. Here are just a few quick comments on stories that caught my eye:
1. Boston Scientific made a bid for Guidant. Now Johnson & Johnson is faced with the decision of a counter offer. The winner in this story ...
I will be updating this blog rather infrequently over the next month. I have several significant projects which will be keeping me quite busy and far from The Bluff.
This time of year, I know many people are looking for some good books for gifts. So, a post with ...
Layoff announcements always seem especially cruel this time of year. In fairness, I’ll note that these companies are not trying to out-Scrooge each other. Rather, they want to get the pain of their restructuring charges over with and we are nearing the end of a ...
Today, I have a quick update on my previous post about News Corp.’s decision to renew their poison pill. See my earlier post for the details of this story.
A Delaware judge ruled that the company will face trial to determine if News Corp.’s actions constitute breach ...
“Top Management Team” is one of the elements in my organizational indicators framework. One relatively minor variable in my Top Management Team assessment is CEO tenure. A lot has been written in the management literature about the expected relationship between CEO tenure and company performance. In ...