2015-05-06 22:51

Consider a business as the human body. The board of directors is the head with the remainder of the body as the operations. Broken down into action verbs - the board of directors "thinks" an… Read More

The Family Business - Maintain Formality To Remain Family

2014-03-07 21:11

Too often with family businesses, the family quotient creates a certain level of informality. The informality exists because there is an implied trust that comes along with being family. A… Read More

And So It Is Cyprus - The Eurozone Has Found A Test Case

2013-03-20 20:00

In the U.S., activist lawyers sift through cases that have the potential to rise to the level of effecting change on the law a la the U.S. Supreme Court. These cases have to have the r… Read More

International Women's Day: March 8, 2012

2012-03-08 22:14

Today's blog is dedicated to International Women's Day and answering the question: How can we, as a culture and as members of the global community, involve, educate, and inspire girls in a p… Read More

The GOP Is Not Rocky And Palin Is No Adrian

2012-02-25 05:34

At the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), Palin commented on how the extended primary is going to strengthen the Republican party for the upcoming U.S. Presidential elec… Read More

Paying Corporate Taxes As A Prophylactic Measure Against U.S. Revenue Shrinkage

2012-02-16 01:22

One cannot turn a TV channel or a newspaper page without hearing the rhetoric about taxes and how everyone including businesses is paying too much. The Tea Party, Republ… Read More

How Russia Got It So Wrong With Syria

2012-02-12 22:57

Aside from Russia's self interest in selling weaponry to Assad's Syrian government, it is Russian Prime Minister Putin's need to play chess with the U.S. And PM Putin is no Bobby Fisch… Read More

Market Transparency For Whom

2012-02-07 21:19

The FBI and U.S. Justice department have been very busy arresting and prosecuting insider trading cases. Some of these insider trading cases are so called "expert networks" where a mat… Read More

Indigent Burials: The Tip Of The Spear For U.S. State Governments

2012-02-05 22:29

Indigent is described as "needy, destitute, poor, lacking or deficient". And indigent burials are on the rise, which is an issue for State and local governments as the cost is publicly… Read More

A Nagging Issue For The Euro-zone

2012-02-05 22:25

"Nagging - the interaction in which one person repeatedly makes a request, the other person repeatedly ignores it and both become increasingly annoyed ..." Personality differences create fer… Read More

"Merger Of Equals": Not Really

2012-02-05 22:22

The latest mergers and acquisitions story is getting the "merger of equals" label. Glencore International and Xstrata are in the mining industry and used to be one company before Xstra… Read More

Private Label Goods - A High Wire Dance For Retailers

2012-02-02 04:57

"Trading down" is when consumers change their purchasing behavior from brand names to private labels also known as generic labels. Private labels are goods manufactured either by the r… Read More

Like Most Food Diets, The U.S. Consumer Debt Diet Is Failing Too

2012-01-20 21:33

U.S. consumers are on the march, again, of consuming debt. It is not that the deleveraging of U.S. consumers has ended because the household debt service ratio is still decreasing, but… Read More

Federalism: The Leavening Agent Missing From The European Union

2012-01-20 16:16

The European Union can never fulfill its moniker of the "United States of Europe" because the United States of America was formed early - before distinct and irreversible identities of the S… Read More

The Brand Issue For Paula Deen Is Not Diabetes, But Deception

2012-01-19 22:27

So Paula Deen has had type 2 diabetes for three years. And for the past three years, Paula Deen continued to promote her products, specifically her cookbooks which are a culinary journ… Read More

Curation Of Online Sources: A Rebirth For The Formality Of Libraries

2012-01-18 22:58

The internet needs the formal organization of libraries in order to be a relevant source of information. Google's search engine displays results based on an algorithm hierarchy such as… Read More

China Is Acting Like The Newly Industrialized Country It Is

2012-01-16 22:50

The U.S. was there in the not so distant past. The days of child labor, currency manipulation, corruption, lawlessness, intellectual property law violations, pollution, and human right… Read More

Companies And CEO Compensation: Fairy Tales Are Not Just For Children Anymore

2012-01-16 19:58

It is an issue of agency and moral hazard. A CEO is an agent for the company's owners - shareholders. For the purposes of this post, publicly traded companies are the focus as cl… Read More

Broken Trust: A Man-made Disaster Affecting American Citizens

2012-01-11 19:55

Americans are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because government and business leaders have failed their mandate. A mandate to be ethical and moral in decision maki… Read More

Insourcing As The Opposite Of Outsourcing Is Overly Simplistic

2012-01-11 05:19

Because the economy is the biggest concern for voters in the upcoming U.S. presidential election, it would not be too long before the outsourcing enemy of American jobs was pulled out of the… Read More

Why The Occupy Wall Street Platform Of "We Are The 99%" Is Not Relevant To The U.S. Presidential Race.

2012-01-09 19:44

Yes, there is a growing separation between the have and have nots. A disparity that is relevant to legislative and regulatory reforms. That is not the U.S. presidential race. The… Read More

Republican Party's New Year's Resolution - Lose Weight

2012-01-06 22:19

And so the field is thinner.The Republican party's presidential candidate musical chairs is a painful process to watch. It cannot be the strategy of the Republican party to choose to r… Read More

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