Stress tests on the banks will be revealed thursday afternoon after the stock market closes.  On the one hand the govt says none of the 19 big banks will be allowed to fail, so what's the point? As George Will points out this is a violation of the 1866 law against publishing bank audit results, the reason is that…

A Forbes columnist comments on the passing of Portfolio magazine.  His conclusion is that being born in New York City doomed the publication. If NYC is in trouble, it stands to reason that new ideas for publications born there will have trouble. He speculates that one shoulder launched missile launched into a fancy NYC eatery…

This link to an employment map shows that unemployment has of course begun regionally. Michigan as I have said in class is in terrible shape. Texas is one of the last affected. I saw an interesting presentation on geospatial relations at the Sam Houston Conference.We will be examining more of these in the cost course this…

Sam Zell just sold Equity Office Properties Trust   symbol EOP.  Take a look at Pete Kendall’s article.  Now go to finance.yahool.com and look at the statistics on EOP.  We study accounting so that we can analyze financial statements.  What do you think, was Sam smart to sell?  Look at the trend of earnings on…