It's rare for water to make waves at the World Economic Forum's annual gathering of business leaders and finance ministers. But the most recent Davos summit was an exception. A new eye-opening??report ranked??water supply among the top five global risks in terms of impact? on par with systemic financial failure and fiscal imbalances. As we ...

pubblicato il: 21/03/2012 - 22:41

In the sea of ink on Greg Smith?s bitterly public departure from Goldman Sachs, two bloggers stand out to me ? Matt Yglesias and Noah Millman. Taken together, their remarks on the Smith ordeal ? and the changes on that ultimately caused it ? raise some serious questions about whether the culprit here isn?t money ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 02:24

Nothing at all funny about the Trayvon Little killing, but on FOX and Friends, Geraldo Rivera claims that one of the major reasons why Little was shot was?get this?because he was wearing a hoodie. No, you cannot make this up. You can find the interview and a transcript here. I believe that George Zimmerman, the ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:55

Entrepreneurs and business advocates applaud the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act, passed by the House last week, as a step toward lowering regulatory hurdles that prevent small business from accessing capital. If passed by the Senate, the bill?s measures will update SEC regulations some say were created for a different time.??And one component of ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 19:24

The board of directors is getting together to review your stewardship of the company's finances.?? Would they be pleased with your performance as the company's chief financial officer??? For many of us, if we conducted our occupational endeavors the way we manage our household finances, we'd be fired! This is the second post in a ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 14:23

There are many good reasons not to pick a fight with an 80-year old man ? but investors have a particularly good reason: They stand to get walloped. As you may have guessed, the octogenarian whom we are alluding to is??Warren Buffett, and while market participants shouldn?t follow the of blindly, they probably shouldn?t tussle ...

pubblicato il: 13/03/2012 - 14:14

Troy Duffy has been busy expanding The Boondock Saints franchise. The writer/director's latest endeavor is a new video game from Critical Mass Interactive, Inc. (CMI) that will feature the voices and likeness of actors Sean Patrick Flanery (Connor MacManus), Norman Reedus (Murphy MacManus) and David Della Rocco (Rocco) from the two Boondock Saints movies. The ...

pubblicato il: 22/03/2012 - 21:48

Friday's WSJ features a brutally - I mean brutally ? frank article about the dismal state of biotech financing.????There are few revelations (certainly not for those readers of this column who I know follow the space closely), and unfortunately, few patches of sunlight.???? This clip from Play It Again, Sam pretty much captures the tone. ...

pubblicato il: 18/03/2012 - 01:54

Forbes Travel Guide covers Wynn Resorts' plans to open a luxury casino hotel outside Boston.

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 19:26

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (AMEX: XBI) where we have detected an approximate $15.6 million dollar outflow ? that?s a 2.8% decrease week over week (from 7,100,000 to 6,900,000). Among the largest underlying components of XBI, in ...

pubblicato il: 23/03/2012 - 16:55