CEO Pay Is Rigged
Excessive CEO Pay for Dumb Luck The highest-paid managers tend to do the most to destroy shareholder value. Bloomberg, March 6, 2017...
Overpaid CEOs Underperform
I have been mulling this over for a while (see our “Previously” below). Since the late 1970s, this ratio has gone wild:...
Thou Shalt Not Buy Biblically Responsible ETFs
Thou Shalt Not Buy Biblically Responsible ETFs Separate your politics from your portfolio. Bloomberg, March 2, 2017 ...
Who is in Charge of Trump’s White House?
Is Donald Trump capable of running something as huge as the federal bureaucracy? Today’s mess is a perfect example of why many...
Globe Staff: Harvard ignored warnings about investments
It happened at least once a year, every year. In a roomful of a dozen Harvard University financial officials, Jack Meyer, the hugely...
The Fiduciary Rule Genie is Already Out of the Bottle
It’s too late for Trump to stop this financial rule Washington Post, February 6, 2017 Rules and regulations exist to let us know what...
PTSD: President Trump Stress Disorder
President Trump News Conference President Trump held a news conference to announce Alexander Acosta as his new labor secretary nominee...
To Hell With Shovel Ready . . .
The sorry state of American infrastructure is once again our focus. This time the peg is the Oroville Dam in California. It is the...
The Myth of the Myth of Middle Class Squeeze
The Middle-Class Squeeze Isn’t Made Up The economic anxiety experienced by a wide swath of Americans is very real. Bloomberg,...