The office is closed and I am heading up to Sonoma. My eyes are on the mend and I will be posting up a storm after the New Year. In the meantime, I wish you all a joyous and relaxing holiday. Best wishes,-...
This does not bode well. Fed Statement is here. Coverage: New York Times Wall Street Journal Paul Krugman's Blog...
According to Gordon Grand, head of CFO recruiting at search firm Russell Reynolds Associates CFO is "the least secure job in corporate America" as reported in the WSJ. Recruiters and finance chiefs say CFOs are quitting or being ousted because the demands...
It's official. We entered a recession in December 2007. Read the statement from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) here. Coverage: Wall Street Journal New York Times The Economist Free Exchange Blog...
Some levity for you via the Freakonomics blog. Last week they posted this photo of President Bush congratulating Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman and ran a caption contest. Photo: The Economist What was Krugman thinking? Check it out: Call for...
Not surprisingly, CFOs and finance executives are struggling to forecast revenue and profit in the midst of market uncertainty. CFO Magazine reports that companies are strengthening their scenario-planning, sensitivity analysis, and contingency planning...
The Financial Page in next week's New Yorker is devoted to Timothy Geithner: For better or worse, we now live in a world in which the Treasury Secretary controls hundreds of billions of dollars in spending and shapes the fate of some of the nation’s biggest...
Condolences to her family and to Bill McBride at Calculated Risk. Her expertise, dry humor, and prescient commentary will be missed. From the NYTimes Thanks in large part to Tanta’s contributions, Calculated Risk became a crucial source of prescient analysis as the...
CFO.com points out that Paul Volcker has strong views on accounting topics that might soon become prominent fixtures of administration economic policy. For example, here are topics/issues that he will undoubtedly have influence over (quoting CFO.com): [His...
In honor of Thanksgiving the WSJ MarketBeat blog updated its bailout scorecard. The matrix summarizes who was bailed out, describes the program, why, who was helped, who paid, and - most importantly - is it working? Check it out...
