I received an email invitation today from CFO (Chief Financial Officer) Magazine to register for an upcoming webcast on the “Recent Findings from the Duke/CFO Magazine Global Outlook Survey” (see below). According to the Duke/CFO Business Outlook Survey website located at http://www.cfosurvey.org/, the survey is conducted quarterly, and it “…polls CFOs of both public and …
“Brian Carney reports that Fannie and Freddie ask for more cash within weeks of an Obama pledge to end taxpayer rescues.”
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Michael P. Fleischer: Why I’m Not Hiring – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “In The Wall Street Journal, Michael P. Fleischer writes that punishing tax rates discourage job creation by businesses.” Book review: The Five-Year Party – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Melanie Kirkpatrick reviews The Five-Year Party: How Colleges …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Nature or nurture: What determines investor behavior www.sciencedirect.com Here’s the abstract from this fascinating article: “Using data on identical and fraternal twins’ complete financial portfolios, we decompose the cross-sectional variation in investor behavior. We find that a genetic factor explains about one-third of the …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Hurricane Neal: Cat. 5 – Barrons.com online.barrons.com “Rep. Richard Neal’s bill has foreign insurance companies worried.” ‘Dilbert’ Cartoonist Puts His Money Into ETFs – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Scott Adams uses his ‘Dilbert’ strip to mock actively managed funds and their managers.” Connecticut Probing Pricing of …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Obama Declares Auto Bailout a Success – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “The president said last year’s $60 billion rescue of GM and Chrysler saved an estimated one million jobs… Alan Blinder of Princeton University and Mark Zandi of Moody’s, estimated that the rescue of GM during …
A new working paper entitled “How the Great Recession Was Brought to an End“, by Princeton’s Alan Blinder and Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics, was released two days ago. In his blog posting entitled “The Impact of Another Kind of Stimulus“, New York Times reporter David Leonhardt characterizes it as “…the first serious attempt at …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Debate Heats Up Over Stimulus Spending – WSJ.com online.wsj.com “Eighteen months after Obama administered a massive dose of spending increases and tax cuts, a fight has broken out about whether fiscal-stimulus medicine is curing the illness or making it worse.” For a page 1 …
Here’s a list of articles that I have been reading lately: Mike Huckabee on politics, Christianity, Israel : The New Yorker www.newyorker.com Interesting New Yorker article about former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee… Will the U.S. Hand Chavez a License to Kill? www.american.com “Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez’s record of providing money, arms, political …
Hat tip to my former MBA student, Jason Gould, for pointing out a 3 minute video which was recently posted at http://www.whitehouse.gov/wallstreetreform entitled “What Wall Street Reform Means for You”. Jason characterizes it as “Wall St. Reform for 1st Graders”, noting that “It is simply amazing that this is how they choose to speak to …
