by Jason Apollo Voss | 05 01 2011 | Blog
Thomson-Reuters data shows that merger and acquisition activity rose to $2.4 trillion in 2010. This marks a 23.1% rise over 2009. Analysis: During the height of the Great Recession (March ’09) I pointed to the rise in merger activity as a sign that important...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 04 01 2011 | News & Events
On 12 January, 2011 at 10am MST, 12 noon EST, I will be interviewed LIVE by The Copernicus Institute’s Steve Saenz. You can tune into the interview by clicking on the following link: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/copernicus-institute. A replay will be available...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 04 01 2011 | Blog
Yesterday was party day across the world’s equity markets. The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was up 0.8%, the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock Index was up 1.1%, the NASDAQ Composite was up 1.5%, the German stock market was up 1.1%, the French stock...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 03 01 2011 | Blog
A recurring theme of the blog has been what qualifies as real economic growth (see for example: 8 October, 2008, 17 January, 2009 and why has the united states had so much innovation?). I have long argued that real innovation is getting more from the same set of...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 31 12 2010 | Blog
It seems appropriate to close out my second year as a blog writer with a topic near and dear to my heart: ethics in business… Prior to its annual meeting, the American Economic Association, has leaked to the New York Times that it intends to discuss a...
by Jason Apollo Voss | 31 12 2010 | Blog
You may recall that I have been critical of the Federal Reserve’s plan to introduce money into the economy through both a lowering of interest rates and “quantitative easing.” My point was that even with benchmark government interest rates at nearly...
