It didn’t take long after last night’s incredibly moving celebration in Chicago’s Grant Park when Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect Obama for attention to turn to key jobs in an Obama Administration. Already, there’s lots of talk about Rep. Rahm Emanuel being offered the Chief of Staff position.
While most of the attention will focus on [...]

One of the great things about living in a democracy is that you get to vote — and not just today at the polls, though of course you should do that. You also get to vote with your pocketbook — something that I practice assiduously.
I was reminded of this the other day when I went [...]

Over the past few days, there’s been lots of talk about making the scoundrels who got us into the type of mess that requires a $700 billion bailout, pay for their actions, which of course, makes for good man-on-the-street outrage. Not to mention plenty of opportunity for politicians to shake their fists.
And, while the 110-page [...]

Fresh on the heels of the head-spinning events yesterday, with Republican John McCain demanding that former Republican Congressman Chris Cox be fired for “being asleep at the switch” and Cox responding with this unusual statement, there’s a whole new list of rules that the SEC is out with this morning, including a new form SH [...]

Every so often, we take a break from our usual trawl through SEC filings to talk about a real life experience with a publicly traded company. On Friday night, a normally robust time for filings, I kicked off early to head up to Saratoga Springs and catch Elvis Costello and the Police in a concert [...]