by Jason Apollo Voss | 15 01 2010 | Best of the Blog, Blog
The car insurance company, Allstate, is currently running an ad in which it says, “Last year GEICO customers who switched to Allstate saved an average of $473 on their car insurance.” While I paraphrased the punch line, this is the gist of their...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 29 12 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Congress is currently considering legislation that will change the way executives in the United States are compensated. Even in these formative stages of the legislation there is tremendous hue and cry from executives of BIG corporations. The gist of their message is:...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 21 12 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Happy solstice folks! This morning’s Wall Street Journal has an article entitled, “Investors Hope the ’10s Beat the ’00s.” The story highlights that the past decade is the very worst decade for stocks in the 200 or so years that their...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 12 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Another Friday, another retail sales report, and another exaggeration from the Wall Street Journal. Beware the adjectives. Here are the facts about retail sales for the month of November… The Commerce Department reported that U.S. retail sales were up 1.3% in...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 23 11 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Good morning folks! J.P. Morgan Asset Management has just published results of its annual European Equity Survey. This survey covered the 128 largest institutional investors in Europe. Of those 128, 102, managing over $3 trillion, said that they were more inclined...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 11 11 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
As I predicted whining has begun about reduced pay packages at financial firms bailed out by the U.S. taxpayer. Specifically, AIG’s CEO Robert Benmosche is threatening to step down at a critical juncture in AIG’s restructuring. Primarily he is upset by...
