Thursday Feb 26 2015 My friends at Elliott Wave have posted a 53 page report on the Global Markets.  It requires you sign up for he free Club EWT, they will not harass you, it is a good deal. Take a look this is an interesting report.    http://www.elliottwave.com/r.asp?rcn=affem&acn=11tmp&url/club/State-of-the-Global-Markets-LG.aspx

Monday Feb 16, 2015 At the conference last week I was asked about my presentation. Here was my elevator pitch. Why does Tesla sell for $215 a share with no earnings, a future that depends on a  yet to be invented battery, and no dealer network When Ford which sells millions of cars and trucks…

thursday Feb 12 2015 DeLoitte has appointed the first woman CEO among the Big Four. You can bet the other three are embarrassed to be in second place on this one, Look for  a flurry of move ups by women in CPA firms. 

Friday Feb 6, 2015   Radio Shack is officially bankrupt. The stock soared to $74 in 1999, today it is literally a dime. One of the lessons of capitalism is creative destruction. RSH should have become an amazon type on line electronic retailer. They did not or at least were too late to the party trying…

Weekend Feb 1 2015 Socionomic theory holds that endogenously generated mood governs behavior. In this excerpt, Chuck Thompson, writer for  the Socionomist, explains a recent experiment analyzing tendencies towards herding. I asked the Ethics Class to read an excerpt from Shadow Account. In that fictional story a CPA explains how this sort of thing occurs…

Wed Jan 28, 2015 An alert student posed a good question yesterday. Why is it that lower oil prices are being blamed for a slower economy ?  Sure that is a problem Texas or North Dakota, but surely the rest of the country benefits from lower energy prices? Good question.The answer is two fold. I…

Monday Jan 26 2015   American Sniper has already grossed $200 Million. It is drawing move goers like myself that rarely attend the theater any more.  I read Kyle's book and the movie is even more to real life than the book. The movie, which draws on his wife's viewpoint, tells the story of how the…

Monday Nov 24 2014   I have posted some or part of Ralph Waldo Emerson's famous essay on gifts the last several Christmas seasons. I have posted prior to the nutcase day otherwise known at Black Friday. On this day stores open at ridiculous early hours. Limited numbers of cut rate bgargains are offered to…

Monday Nov 10 2014 This ‘n That The 2006 United States midterm elections resulted in a sweeping victory for the Democratic Party which captured control of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and won a majority of governorships and state legislatures from the Republican Party. General elections in the United States were held on Tuesday,…