Poison Pill Plans Are Bad for Shareholders

One of the recurring themes of this blog has been criticisms of capitalism as practiced by corporate America.  I have specifically called for a reformation of corporate culture in the United States multiple times.  One of the most egregious excesses of the corporation...

Wow, how things have changed

Early this morning in London news that both Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s both warned the United States on its credit rating.  The concern is, of course, with the spendthrift ways of the Legislative as stoked by the Executive branch – and over...

Got Yuan?

For its U.S.-based customers the Bank of China has begun allowing trading in the Chinese currency, the yuan.  This is clearly a long-term focused goal of trying to make the yuan a competitor for the U.S. dollar as the global currency in which trading is conducted....

What to invest in now

As long-term readers of this blog know, I consider it contrary to my purpose to give investment advice about specific investments.  My goal is your investment self-sufficiency.  That is one of the reasons that I tend to comment on macro-economic data – I feel...

Anecdotal evidence of gold bubble

During the dot.com and real estate bubbles of the last decade it was so difficult to get a contrary opinion from anyone who wasn’t drinking from the bubble kool-aid.  One of the ways any investor, yes, even you, could have recognized that it was a bubble was by...