by Jason Apollo Voss | 06 07 2011 | Blog
Because most companies are on a calendar year for financial reporting, their annual shareholder meetings and proxy statements are considered by their owners in the late spring to early summer. This annual meeting season has seen a rise in shareholder...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 07 2011 | Blog
Via e-mail a loyal reader of the blog asks a great series of questions that are an opportunity to address what’s going on in the financial markets right now. Hopefully he will forgive me for bringing his question into the public forum of the blog. ...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 04 07 2011 | Blog
Last week the Standard & Poors 500 Index surged 5.6% having almost everything to do with the possibility of a resolution to the Greek debt crisis. Most market participants felt that the situation was resolved. You might have noticed that I did not blog...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 01 07 2011 | Blog
Today marks the end of the first half of 2011, so it is time to return to my 2011 Predictions to see how I have done so far this year. For ease in evaluation I will re-post each prediction in its entirety, followed by evaluation and commentary. OVERALL THEMES...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 01 07 2011 | Blog
On 15 February, 2011 I wrote a post entitled, “Archetypes Are Obscuring the Understanding of Egypt” that was about the unrest in Egypt that was then unfolding. My specific focus was about how people’s, including the press’s, obsession with...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 30 06 2011 | Blog
Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal ran a story that only confirmed my worst fears about the quality of Chinese financial data. In short, the piece, entitled “Auditors Sharpen Queries in China,” catalogs a series of lies found by auditors of Chinese...
