Everyone is jumping on the economic stimulus bandwagon. The Wall Street Journal weighs in with its suggestion. First does the ecnomy need a ‘stimulus’ from Washington DC? Next, if so ,what kind?  A one time check, a reduction in tax rates, some sort of tax credit for buying a ‘green car,’ what?  Don’t laugh, in…

Barney Frank weighs in on the lack of regulation and what has happened in the economy. This is an excellent article and he is correct, it should frame the presidential debate this year.  He handily overlooks the lack of regulation in the Clinton era which led directly to the dot.com bust, not to mention ‘where…

We have certainly done our best to predict and chronicle the housing meltdown here on the blog.  Now comes Dirty Deeds, a B/W article describing how yesterday’s great idea, a mortgage on ‘some kind of a house’ has become today’s ‘toxic title.’  This is why you should subscribe to B/W. The actual article in the…

Today Bank of America bought Countrywide Finance CFC.   Click and read the article.  Did the shareholder of CFC get a good deal, better yet did Bank of America get a good deal? Why did Bank of America pay in stock rather than cash?  If you had been CFC shareholder are you happier now?  We…

Goldman Sachs and Merrill see a recession coming.  Okay what is the difference between everything AOK recession depression I went to www.quickmba.com and found an explanation for recession along with the business cycle. So I put in depression and guess what, nothing.  I suppose no oe is worreid about more than a two quarter slowdown…

I write in several venues including a news paper column, and have for years.  Last year I commented that if someone would embrace the Fair Tax it would catapult thier candidacy to the top.  Well, Mike Huckabee has.  And guess what, he had gone from nowhere to near leader of the Republican pack in a…

We did not have to get very far into 2008 for an out of the park ethics story.  And this one happened right in Garland, TX. (That is NE DFW).  The Mother of a six year old ‘helped’ the girl craft a story claiming that her Dad had been killed in Iraq. This was her…

Class I have posted this from another source. It is a great summary of the equity section of the balance sheet that we will study this semester in Intermed II. And for those that need a brush up, well here it is. Remember I have also posted links to learn more about stocks and bonds.…

Class I have posted this from another source. It is a great summary of the equity section of the balance sheet that we will study this semester in Intermed II. And for those that need a brush up, well here it is. Remember I have also posted links to learn more about stocks and bonds.…

Editor’s note: We conclude our Twelve Days of Christmas with a reader favorite… our infamous “Letter from the Chairman of General Motors,” by Porter Stansberry. For one of the most talked about essays written in our industry this year, read on… More from the Chairman of General Motors… Originally published in the November 8 edition…