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Sunday April 17, 2011 I am reading Robert Scheer's The Great American Stickup. Recently I gave the lecture on the history of derivatives as well as the recent history of the financial crisis as well as famous derivative blow ups. Sheer pulls not party line punches, describing vividly how Enron et all bought an paid…
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Sat April 16, 2011 An alert student, Laura Kingsley, posted this link http://www.ocean.edu/readcoltext/howtoreadcollegetextdrjohnweber.htm o how to read a textboook. I made a comment on her post that I too used to get fan fold computer paper from the computer lab, and used the blank side to outline my courses. That paid off big time.…
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Wed April 13, 2011 Take a look at this article which uses a Shiller trailing p/e. We are studying price earnings ratios in Intemed II now. This article suggests as I have been suggesting, that we are at another historic top in market prices. The price earnings ratio tells us how many dollars one is wiling…
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Wed April 13, 2011 Take a look at this article which uses a Shiller trailing p/e. We are studying price earnings ratios in Intemed II now. This article suggests as I have been suggesting, that we are at another historic top in market prices. The price earnings ratio tells us how many dollars one is wiling…
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Monday April 11, 2011 the Dodd Frank rules begin kicking in the third quarter. Take a look at what is coming. What a mess, the last thing we need are more rules, note that Dodd is not running for re-election. This will only slow an already slow economy.
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Thursday March 17, 2011 Again, use this URL to access Connect homework, you can no longer access the Connect homework thru Black board http://connect.mcgraw-hill.com/
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Thursday March 3 2011 I posted this under Announcements on the Home Page in Black board BB for the intermed I and II classes but am repeating it here in case anyone has not logged on to BB. I created another folder and added the answers to the end of chapter EOC questions for the…
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Tuesday March 1, 2011 I am not able to access Blackboard for any announcements this morning so I am posting here, another reason to maintain a separate communication site. We have spent a good deal of time reviewing in each of these classes. I realize that we have students with varying academic backgrounds in accounting.…
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Thursday February 24, 2011 I am examining other textbooks for use in Intermediate I and II. I would like some student input. If some of you are interested in taking a look, please let me know.
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Wed February 9 2011 Can Arianna and AOL play well together? This is an interesting column posing interesting questions. It is easy to see why Arianna sold, reportedly she personally made $100 M, and I read the HP just now started turning a profit. But from a socionomic perspective, mergers happen in bull markets and she…
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