Here are several follow up articles about our recent discussions Turns out GM is considering Chrysler. GM wants it for free and it would add $62 B a year in sales, can GM merger its way out of trouble?  Sounds like Burroughs and Sperry making Unisys to me…Think about what we have studied concerning quality…

In my post about TXU I linked to an article in Socio Times noting that Chuck Norris has now created an ultra violent karate sport-his life dream he says.  Pete Kendall notes that Norris came to fame at the top of the bull market in the late 1960s, so it makes since he would be…

Manned exploration of space has been, well, much ado about nothing in my opinion.  Technical developments however have finally made real time global communication a reality what with satellites and all.  The problem in exciting folks about space is that, so far, all those weird Sci Fi creatures we love to see in the movies…

I have asked you to review a movie both on paper and in class which features an ethical theme.  Like one of my students, I pretty much thought this was a black and white issue when I set out to creat a syllabus.  After teaching the accounting ethics class twice I have decided otherwise.  Modern…

The purpose of this post is to describe three of the accounting certifications available, and to make some specific recommendations about what you might best pursue.  At this point, I suggest you log on to WEB CT and retrieve my Helpful Websites document that contains a host of useful web links. A certification is obtained…

Check out this Special Report on Customer Service champs.  What does it take to be a winner.  BW asked J  D Power and Assoc.  As we become more and more service oriented this is what it is all about.  And you may be surprised at who made the top 25 list, would you believe Buick…

If there were ever a candidate for the perennial soap opera star of the American Auto Industry it is surely Chrysler.  This is the number three that barely made none in good times and just about goes out of business in bad.  B/W takes a look at Chrysler at the Crossroads in this article.  But…

Jason asked why I had not mentioned the biggest buyout in history-TXU, good point. Let’s get to it.  See the previous post about the DOW drop and the Elliott Wave.  Recall that I have put up several posts about how pop culture is turning negative, consider my post about Chuck Norris World Combat League on…

The media will be agog over the fact that the DOW was down 400 points today.  Actually Paul Harvey probably had the best summary of this – the Chinese exchange doubled in the last year or two, a correction is to be expected.  I am convinced that markets don’t advance and contract so much on…

While I certainly do not promote this blog as an investment adviser, from time to time the analysis we learn in class, both technical and fundamental, can pay off.  BAck on Oct 29, 2006 I noted that RSH stock was on sale for 80% off its 200 peak. It had all the earmarks of a…