by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 03 2009 | Blog
Huh? What are “staggered board terms?” They are a little understood evil that has strongly contributed to the financial crisis and resulting recession. Let me explain. Was the financial crisis caused by poor financial institutions management decisions?...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 03 2009 | Blog
I feel as if the talk of regulatory change is one of the most important national discussions taking place right now. Count on continued updates here on ze blog outlining the proposed steps. The rumbling in the District of Columbia is as follows: giving the Federal...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 16 03 2009 | Blog
The major stock indices have rallied, with the whole thing starting off last Tuesday. Encouragingly, there has been good news circulating to accompany the rally. For example, AIG has disclosed where it spent its bailout monies. While distressing to some, transparency...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 13 03 2009 | Blog
A relatively quick missive… There have been several academic studies that have tried to track the effect of index funds on the upward momentum of the stock market. In case you didn’t know, an index fund is a mutual fund designed so that its performance...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 12 03 2009 | Best of the Blog, Blog
Happy Friday everyone, As I am sure you all know, the financial markets have rallied over the previous three trading sessions. The initial spark was Citigroup having released the news that their results for the first two months of the year were better than expected...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 10 03 2009 | Blog
So just after my comment earlier today that regulators need to begin talking about new regulations to better shepherd the financial markets, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, said, “…the time for such a longer-term discussion has...
