At the end of February Walgreen’s Boots Alliance was unceremoniously removed from the vaunted Dow Jones Industrial Index and Amazon was added. The addition of Amazon to the Dow, and the Dow’s current composition tells it like it is. Yes, Walgreen’s was a retailer, and Amazon is a retailer, so the Dow’s “Consumer Goods” […]
I was retained by Big Four accounting and consulting firm KPMG to assist them in their thought leadership efforts centered on changing accounting regulations. In this case, the Financial Accounting Standards Board or FASB had instituted new rules on the measurement of current and expected credit losses, i.e. CECL, that would require massive reorganization of financial reporting for the largest financial services organizations in the world. This thought leadership piece concerned the results of a survey among C-suite executives about their state of preparedness in the final countdown to the CECL implementation.
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Fall 2012. This article was written with Stefano Sola and Phil Donahue, executives at JGWPT Holdings. We were engaged by JGWPT to assist them
in publishing the article below for The Journal Of Structured Finance.
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This story is from our February 2024 update newsletter that offers communications insights, and hopefully, some amusing diversion.
This story is from our February 2024 update newsletter that offers communications insights, and hopefully, some amusing diversion.
This story is from our February 2024 update newsletter that offers communications insights, and hopefully, some amusing diversion.
This story is from our February 2024 update newsletter that offers communications insights, and hopefully, some amusing diversion.
This article was written with Louis Navellier, founder and chief investment officer of asset manager Navellier & Associates. It was part of a series of articles developed under an agreement with Kiplinger negotiated by me to designate Mr. Navellier as a contributor and to deliver original articles for them on a regular basis.
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We often hear that the United States is a wealthy nation. But how wealthy, and amid the current turmoil and self-inflicted wounds, can it remain so? Wealth In Ideas To our credit, we believe in discovery and the ability of intellectual property to generate growth in the economy. Right now, U.S. investment in research and
This op-ed was published by Barron’s on March 17, 2021 Critics of minimum wage increases suggest they will raise costs, kill jobs, and put companies out of business. Are they right? To find out, I looked for a company that employs a lot of minimum wage workers to see what impact a $ 15-an-hour wage would
Finance: What Does A $15 Minimum Wage Really Cost?About 50 Cents. Read More »