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Saturday, March 26th, 2011Interesting list of the 30 Best CEOs from this week’s Barron’s. Of this year’s list, 18 CEOs lead American companies and 12 are from international firms. Here is their list. You can click on the link to see more information on each CEO. I’d like to see a ranking of all the CEOs of say [...]
Components for the iPad 2 Cost Apple $326
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011NOTE: This is a re-worked post from earlier this morning. I misread the Wall Street Journal article and thought they were talking about total cost of production and not just component cost. I saw a graphic in today’s Wall Street Journal that detailed some of the component costs of the new iPad. The graphic broke [...]
NFL Labor Talks – Who’s Side Are You On?
Friday, March 4th, 2011I have read bits and pieces about what’s going on in the NFL. From what I can tell, the players want things to stay like they are but the owners want more money. As I understand it, the owners get a $1 billion expense credit right off the top of all revenues, which are currently [...]
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – Necessary?
Friday, September 17th, 2010I just watched President Obama’s introduction of Elizabeth Warren to head the newly-created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Here is the text of those remarks: THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon, everybody. Before we begin I just want to mention a report that was released by the Census Bureau yesterday about what happened to wages during the last [...]
Maybe They Should Just Stick to Cash
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010From a front page article in today’s WSJ (bold mine): Norfolk County, Mass., has only a small pension fund, but it is a big player in court. Two weeks ago, the fund joined with two others in a shareholder suit against drugstore chain CVS Caremark Corp., whose stock had fallen. It was the 12th time [...]
A Quick Observation of the Events Involving Galleon Group
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009In Saturday’s WSJ, there was a front page story about how six people were charged with insider trading surrouding Raj Rajaratnam and his hedge fund, Galleon Group. According to the articles, the hedge fund was allegedly paying analysts and company insiders for information so that they could trade on that information. What should these accusations/findings [...]
Murdoch Vows to Charge For All Online Content
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Rupert Murdoch has vowed to charge for all the online content of his newspapers and television news channels, going well beyond his prediction in May that the company would test pay models on one of its stronger papers within the year. Interesting… Will he be able to do it? I don’t think so. I subscribe [...]
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