There seems to be a profound disconnect for chief financial officers in their first 100 days on the job. According to a McKinsey survey, most CFOs say their time is not being spent in areas where...

The US dollar keeps sinking ahead of expectations of more bad economic news expected today and it's going to get worse. "The dollar will remain under pressure. On a 12-month horizon, the...

Last month, I did a blog entry on the power of empires in the South Korean market. Specifically, I was talking about the problems confronting Samsung.The issue was in the news again this week when...

US stocks are down - the biggest point drop yet for the first trading day of the year, and its largest percentage decline since 1983 - oil has hit a record and gold is getting there. What a start......

Just after Christmas, I did an entry looking at how the subprime crisis had driven a big increase in securities lawsuits. The NERA Economic Consulting's semi-annual benchmark study showed the...

Interesting questions raised from The Wall Street Journal's scoop last week that Warren Buffett plans to make a buck out of the turmoil in the financial markets by establishing a bond insurance...

While the US was heading into the subprime meltdown, lawmakers around the country were being dissuaded from bringing in laws to curtail their sharp lending practices and Predatory lending through...

Winning elections is now more expensive than ever so the parties and candidates are now even more dependent on corporations. As Will Hutton points out in his book The Writing On The Wall, back in...

Will Osama Bin Laden be caught in 2008? Will George Bush pardon Lewis "Scooter" Libby? The prediction markets are already taking bets. But predicting the future is not what it used to be....