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Archive for the 'economy' Tag

As Time Goes By….

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

People may disagree about whether a kiss is just a kiss or a sigh is just a sigh, but Footnoted readers know very well that words in SEC filings are never just words. As Michelle highlighted in a post last week about Apple (AAPL) (and the comments that followed), alert investors can get ahead by paying [...]

Ted Oglove’s thoughts on the current mess…

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

Yesterday afternoon, I called Thornton “Ted” Oglove, who has been a mentor ever since I cold-called him six years ago when I started working on my book, Financial Fine Print. Though I was really only calling about my trip next week to San Francisco to speak to the CFA Society of SF, the conversation quickly [...]

On how economic development really works…

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Back when I was a daily business reporter, one of the stories that I periodically had to write (or edit) had to do with some new company coming to town and discovering the joys of Bradenton or New Haven or East Fishkill. There was the big press conference with all the local politicos lined up [...]

Was Wall Street asleep at the switch?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Over the past few days, most of the large Wall Street firms have filed their 10-Ks for 2007, which was kinder to some, including Goldman Sachs (GS) and less so to others, like Morgan Stanley (MS). So we wondered how often and to what extent the various firms would blame their woes on the subprime [...]

On looking forward (and back)…

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

For many people, this is the first day back to work after 12 days off. And given that it’s the first real work day of the year, it’s also a time for various performance reviews, like this one that my friend (and fellow blogger) Barry Ritholtz tackles here and various predictions. With that in mind, [...]