In a post I wrote about a year ago, I predicted, as did many others, that financial reform would likely be coming for those in the banking industry.  The regulatory debate is now in full swing and it is encouraging to see the issue of Too Big To Fail (TBTF) rising to the forefront as [...]

After reviewing my links today, I remembered why I fell in love with Footnoted.org, and thought that I would give it a bump here on my site.  Not only because I wish the continued success of their site, but also because I think that anyone interested in business and investing should have it bookmarked.  Seriously, [...]

Economics would likely not be described as a lively topic for most people; however, its importance encompasses us all.  Whether we like it or not, knowing a thing or two about economics can be useful in understanding the world around us.  Above is a video created by John Papola & Russ Roberts, George Mason University [...]

Sometimes the simplest of phrases can have mountains of truth.  Mr. Micawber, a character from Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield, understood well the relationship between income and spending.  As many who had spent past their means in the years before the recent crisis can surely relate:
“Annual income, twenty pounds; annual expenditure, nineteen nineteen six; result, [...]

While reading the World In 2010, an annual production by the Economist magazine to predict and analyze the coming year, I found one article titled “The end of the affair”, to sadly mirror my own feelings about the future of the MBA or more importantly the value of business education.
Years ago when I applied to [...]

Grant Thornton, an accounting firm, put out a new report this month seeking to address a “precipitous decline in the number of publicly listed companies.”  While I am unclear about the solutions they pose to the problem as they are out of my scope of knowledge, I do find the issues addressed to be very [...]

Still feeling the after-effects of the mortgage collapse?  Most of us are with a dragging economy, high unemployment, and nagging debts.  What exactly happened with mortgages, and what happened to all the money invested?  Questions whose answers will lead us to understanding why we are where we are today.
I have just finished listening to a [...]

I realize that this blog has been largely neglected for some time as I have given my attention to my more universal blog at Lateral Drift but I saw a quote from The Economist today and thought I would share it using a popular column I write at the other website.  Here are some words [...]

While doing some casual reading this evening I came across the following interesting statement.
“The cost of heart disease and stroke in the United States has been estimated at $432 billion for 2007, including health care expenditures and lost productivity.”
-The Blue Zone by Dan Buettner
This is a pretty shocking estimate and although the number could have [...]

Math, yes, the stereotypically nerdy, the unjustly named boring, and maybe not so wrongly named difficult.  It is, despite these truths and fictions, a matter of great concern especially for those who wish to further their knowledge of finance and economics. Readings of many graduate level or higher papers in these fields are littered with [...]