I've looked at the "who" and the "why" questions related to church. The answers to these questions are the foundation that sets us up to start talking about the "how" and "what" questions. How do we do church? How are we to behave? What are we to do? I think these are where we start getting controve...

This week 24/7 Wall St. is picking several stocks from major sectors that are likely to double off of their lows we have recently seen. Today, let’s discuss the retail sector.   We are also including two food companies that have suffered along with the rest of the retail sector. Today’...

The Los Angeles Times carried a story yesterday about a couple here in Chicago who have chosen to effectively practice Trinity United Church of Christ's controversial Black Values System. The story doesn't mention whether the couple attends where the Obamas......

Back in December, I posed this question:As an American citizen, is there a patriotic duty to spend hard earned money to help the economy out of its mess? My answer is NO. David Leonhardt opines in To Spend or Save? Trick Question: "It’s your fault. Part of it is, anyway. You, the American consumer...

I may be indulging in some naive wishful thinking, but I truly believe it is a testament to our unique form of government, a federated three-tiered, three-branched representative republic — not to mention a bounty of natural resources, robust industrial tradition and innovative technological l...

The world might not  have changed so much if The Madoffs and The Noels didn't lust after social status.  That might have been the real crime in the Madoff Ponzi scheme.  It was Bernard "Uncle Bernie" Madoff who constructed and executed the elaborate fraud. ...

Your "free" market at work for you: Merrill Lynch traders lost hundreds and hundreds of millions of profits on trades at extraordinary risk. Merrill hid word of those trades from its new parent company, Bank of America, and then paid $3.6 billion in bonuses based on performance as of December 8, 200...

Neo-Republicans are the angry CAT. The Obama Administration must clean the CAT BOX. The SHIT is the result of eight years of mismanagement and corruption and plain old greed. Now the CAT demonizes the scooper and bullies the cleaning methods … this makes no sense. It stinks! Neo-Republicans ar...

Filed under: International markets, Good news, Management, Citigroup Inc. (C), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Bank of New York (BK), Wells Fargo (WFC), Chasing Value, U.S. Bancorp (USB) It is being reported today in the Business Journal that the safest bank in the United States is Wells Fargo & Company (...

Bob Sutton: The Enron Code of Ethics: Something Every Boss Should Read - My hypothesis is that the longer a code of ethics in a company, the more likely they are too be sleazeballs. As I've heard my father-in-law say many times, when people talk about ethics and morals more than seems necessary,...