by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 05 2009 | Blog
The Presidential Administration of Barack Obama is considering reforming the way financial institutions pay their employees. Primarily they are trying to align pay with long-term performance. It’s about damned time. Power to enforce such measures would come from...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 05 2009 | Blog
Happy Friday everyone! I am heading out to see the new Star Trek movie! Oh yeah! I’ll let you all know how it is…early reviews all love it. For today’s post I wanted to copy yesterday’s op-ed piece by U.S. Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner....
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 05 2009 | Blog
Last month retail sales in the U.S. were down and strongly so, even friggin’ Wal-Mart (ticker: WMT) posted negative same store sales growth and recessions are their bread and butter. “Everyday Low Prices” and all that. So most retailers have reported...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 05 2009 | Blog
Back on March 12th of this year I posted a blog entitled, “Bottomed out?” At the time I was reluctant to make a call as to whether or not a bottom had been reached in the equity markets. There was still a lot of uncertainty. However, I was comfortable...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 07 05 2009 | Blog
In yesterday’s post I had said regarding the fact that Bank of America was going to have to raise massive amounts of new equity to improve its risk profile: “It will be interesting to see what the financial market response is to this BAC news. If the...
