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Recent CommentaryDecember 12, 2008 Report: IBM, Tesco and Dell Receive Top Scores in First-Ever Ranking of Consumer & Tech Companies on Climate Change StrategiesSource: Ceres While progress is being made, consumer and technology companies still have more to do in confronting the business challenges posed by climate change, according to a report issued today by the Ceres investor coalition and authored... December 11, 2008 Sustainability, Any Way You Want ItSource: Huffington Post Sustainability is partly about the environment, and wholly about the way we choose to live. It is a new way of referring to a very old thing: a trendy way of repurposing lessons handed down to us from the scriptures--or at least... December 11, 2008 Keep China on the Capitalist RoadSource: The Wall Street Journal Of the many actual and possible victims of the current global slowdown, one of the most troubling could turn out to be China's process of economic opening and reform. Turmoil at Western financial institutions and the credit... December 11, 2008 Companies plain stupid to cut back CSR programmesSource: Mad.co,uk It would be a dangerous and cynical view to suggest that, due to the global economic downturn, the public is no longer interested in how the actions of companies may impact on the environment and climate change December 11, 2008 CEOs and Market Woes: Is Poor Corporate Governance to Blame?Source: Knowledge@Wharton, University of Pennsylvania From Wall Street to Detroit, chief executives are losing their bonuses, agreeing to work for a dollar a year and in many cases losing their jobs. Congress is invading the executive suite, demanding veto power over management... December 11, 2008 Market Value Accounting Crippling EconomySource: The American Spectator Herewith the first installment of an economic symposium that Brian S. Wesbury, our economics editor, has put together in the hope that the present financial crisis can be relieved without much more pain for the taxpayer. We... December 11, 2008 Bailout or Bankruptcy: What Will It Take to Get the U.S. Auto Industry Back on Track?Source: Knowledge@Wharton, University of Pennsylvania A government plan to rescue the U.S. automobile industry with $14 billion in emergency loans to General Motors and Chrysler was approved by the House of Representatives late on December 10, but the proposal continued to face... December 11, 2008 Treasury Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability Neel Kashkari Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services CommitteeSource: U.S. Treasury Department Washington - Good morning. Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Bachus, and Members of the Committee, thank you for asking me to testify before you today regarding oversight of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. December 10, 2008 Financial Planning for Investment Clients Seeking Shari’a ComplianceSource: Usman Hayat, CFA Integrating Islamic finance into a client’s wealth management plan is mystifying for many advisers but is simply an extension of traditional practices. Nonetheless, it introduces some challenges that can be overcome. December 10, 2008 The Latest Corporate Social Responsibility News - Universal Declaration of Human Rights Celebrates 60 YearsSource: Bill Baue, CSR Wire On December 10, 1948, when adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations called on member country governments to 'expound' the UDHR. Now, on the Declaration's 60th anniversary, responsibility for... December 10, 2008 Where were the directors?Source: Globe and Mail Update - CA We are in the midst of a tectonic-plate movement in the financial world that is shaking the ‘real' world quite dramatically. My purpose here is not to review the causes and potential consequences of our current situation, but to... December 9, 2008 Going “green” will destroy DetroitSource: Today's Financial News The federal government is making a costly mistake bailing out the Big Three. Political pressure has forced the automakers to propose a horrific business plan that will ultimately ensure the automakers’ demise. Detroit is going... December 9, 2008 Top 3 Trends Affecting Enterprise Risk ManagementSource: Network World In this new global reality of companies rushing to exploit the opportunities of service-oriented architectures (SOAs), clouds and other distributed models of computing, determined outsiders and insiders may seek to exploit... December 9, 2008 Energy Prices Not Headed for a CollapseSource: The Kiplinger Letter Don’t get complacent about lower oil prices. This market slide has overshot the mark, just as the upward swing did earlier this year. As we said last spring, supply/demand fundamentals didn't support oil prices of $150 a barrel... December 9, 2008 Holding CEOs AccountableSource: The Wall Street Journal The failure of the General Motors board of directors to fire CEO Richard Wagoner provides a rare glimpse into the inner-workings of big-time corporate boards of directors. The sight is not pretty December 9, 2008 To Help Bail Out Small Businesses, Regulate Global Warming?Source: U.S. News and World Report Hank Ryan, executive director of Small Business California, says that regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are not only not the job-killers that their critics make them out to be, but actually help businesses,... December 7, 2008 A domino effect in the global work forceSource: Floyd Norris, International Herlad-Tribine - Paris THE world recession is spreading, and the employment outlook is turning down almost everywhere. Even in countries like China, the latest surveys of companies show they are reducing their work forces, providing more evidence that... December 7, 2008 The ReckoningSource: Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times “These errors make us look either incompetent at credit analysis or like we sold our soul to the devil for revenue, or a little bit of both.” — A Moody’s managing director responding anonymously to an internal management survey,... December 7, 2008 Anonymous Banker: Why Creditworthy Businesses Can’t Get LoansSource: Joie Nocera, New York Times A.B. responds to those who commented on this recent post about why banks aren’t making small-business loans, brings back a horror story or two from the front lines of banking, and asks Jamie Dimon why he won’t Do The Right Thing. December 7, 2008 This Wasn't Quite the Change We PicturedSource: Washington Post And looking at President-elect Barack Obama's top appointments, it's easy to wonder whether convention has triumphed over change -- and centrists over progressives.
December 6, 2008 Is Buffett Insane?Source: The Motley Fool In the midst of economic chaos, Warren Buffett recently made a bold prediction. He said that now is the time to buy American stocks. Of course, this call seems utterly insane. Banks are failing, the credit markets are deadlocked,... December 6, 2008 Darkness and Light at GE CapitalSource: Gretchen Morgenson, New York Times GENERAL ELECTRIC’S shareholders have taken quite a pummeling lately, largely because of uncertainty at the GE Capital Corporation, the enormous and often impenetrable financial services unit that has generated more than half the... December 5, 2008 Give owners 5% mortgage and watch economy thriveSource: Mark C. Dawkins, Atlanta Journal Constitution FDIC Chairwoman Sheila Bair deserves credit for proposing a plan to have the government help delinquent homeowners. At least she is trying to solve the mortgage component of the economic crisis and get the economy moving again,... December 5, 2008 Fed Takes a $3 Trillion Gamble to Spur Lending: John M. BerrySource: John M. Berry, Bloomberg.com Federal Reserve officials are throwing everything they have into the fight to stabilize financial markets and restore economic growth. In the process, the Fed balance sheet is ballooning to $3 trillion, if not more. December 5, 2008 Live Blog: The Automakers PleadSource: Floyd Norris, New York Times The chiefs of the Big Three automakers and the United Auto Workers were back on Capitol Hill today for a Senate Banking Committee hearing in which the companies pleaded for federal cash. Floyd Norris, the chief financial... |
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