Guest post written by Jeffrey Solomon Jeffrey Solomon is CEO of Cowen & Co., and a member of the??Committee on Capital Markets Regulation Over the past decade, there has been a dramatic decline in our country's IPO activity - not as a result of a lack of innovative and growing companies here, but rather as ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 19:26

I come to bury innovation, not to praise it. (With appropriate apologies to the Bard) I recently spent several days at an upscale hotel in .?? It had all the trappings of a yuppie hotel, lighting, electronics, and so forth.?? Should have been a really cool place to hang out for a week. However, they ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 18:23

A new idea, a new idea! My kingdom for a new idea! ?(Again, apologies to the Bard) In my earlier post, I argued that innovation for its own sake is a waste of resources and a huge opportunity cost.?? I used the example of a 7-inch long hotel key, but I could equally well have ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 03:20

Greg Smith, an executive director at Goldman Sachs and one of the heads of its equity derivatives business, has written a devastating blast at the company in today?s Times, charging that it has lost all integrity and doesn?t serve its customers, with a note at the bottom saying that he is quitting the investment bank ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 14:23

Never quite learning that you need the Regulators on your side, AT&T started yelling that if it had been allowed to merge with T Mobile jobs would have been retained,not ended as they were by T Mo last week. What AT&T must find is more spectrum. For now Clearwire is an excellent choice as a source of leased channels on its wholesale network. T is in the worst positionn to run out of spectrum in about 3 years. FCC lease sales won't help it in time. Yet it gave spectrum away in the break up fees in the T Mobile deal.

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 16:56

Imagine if you were paying Britain?s top 50% individual tax rate! We Americans have plenty of aggressive tax planners to worry about, yet we can't seem to stop obsessing over who is paying what rate. Paying a low rate, as low as the law allows, means you?re savvy. Paying more is counterintuitive. See??Gordon Gekko Tax ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 09:27

I still know some entrepreneurs who boast of simply following their gut instincts, rather than listen to anyone or any data, to make strategic decisions. We've all worked with autocratic leaders in large companies who seem to thrive in this mode. They all forget or ignore the high-profile failures that have resulted from some single-handed ...

pubblicato il: 26/03/2012 - 02:25

A study by PartSelect.com has found the cities in America in which people are most likely to tackle their own appliance repair jobs. -Espanola, New Mexico topped the list. The findings are focused on appliance repair; however, it is likely one could extend this logic to other do-it-yourself categories. Do-it-yourself repair isn't new. People have ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 17:25

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics ??? strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive. ARMOUR Residential REIT Inc. (NYSE: ARR) presently has a stellar rank, in the top 10% of ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 16:55

The DividendRank formula at Dividend Channel ranks a coverage universe of thousands of dividend stocks, according to a proprietary formula designed to identify those stocks that combine two important characteristics ??? strong fundamentals and a valuation that looks inexpensive. Dreyfus Strategic Muns Incorporated (NYSE: LEO) presently has a stellar rank, in the top 10% of ...

pubblicato il: 16/03/2012 - 17:25