Law firm layoffs, bailouts and bank closings are in the news. It is sometimes hard not to dwell on so many negative events. So I've been doing a lot of thinking about law practice in this economy, as have a lot of others. I've just finished a two part series in the Oklahoma Bar Journal on th...

Last month, real estate columnist Steve Brown shot off a nice little rant about how bank regulators were forcing banks to clamp down so hard on real estate lending that they were denying credit to good borrowers as well as bad ones. The Kansas City Business Journal provides further evidence of this ...

Last fall, theology professor R.R. Reno wrote a long blog piece at First Things that defended the federal government's bailout from the attacks of his more ideologically pure brethren on the right. Professor Reno recently came back with a follow up piece this week that concedes that he angered a lot...

Cameron just left a question for me in the comments to last night’s recap. He asked: I’m looking at your way of thinking about the market. One of the biggest questions I have, though, is regarding your stops. You said you set your stop at just .20 over your short dollar amount. With all ...

In the Internet-fueled echo chamber, a crisis within your industry can easily become a PR problem for your company too. This is particularly true in food-borne illness situations. Extensive media coverage of precautionary government warnings and companies pulling products from menus or shelves all a...

In my last post I posed the question "Does Hedging really Work". Since that time I've been doing some research for an article in Windows in Financial Services and received the following quote From    Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTabl...

When You Go To Heaven, Will Your Practice Go to Hell? is an eye-catching title for a nice article on a very serious topic. It was written by Courtney Kennaday, PMA for the South Carolina Bar, and Reid Trautz, PMA for the Association of Immigration Lawyers of America. Sever other blogs have already n...

Author and Instructor Peter Kummerfeldt conducts outdoor safety skills seminars for his company OutdoorSafe. he writes: The tendency to hold optimistic opinions of our ability seems to be a part of human nature. No one wants to be “average,� we want to believe that we are “better than average....

Although often berated as a prime example of the "Liberal Main Stream Media" that conservative radio talk show hosts love to loathe, the latest issue of Time magazine sang the praises of a company that's often been labeled as one of the biggest of the bad boys when it comes to loan servicers who liv...

Robert Waldmann The second of three parts of Dennis and O'Harrow's series on the downfall of AIG introduces two new features—credit default saps and Joseph Cassano. Together the two managed to bring down AIG. Thus far we have only read about how AIG got into the business of writing CDSs -- it ...