Topic: Wall Street

When the going gets tough, Shawn Baldwin behaves like a true Wall Streeter and heads to the Hamptons (for a fundraiser)!

Shawn Baldwin from CMG reports from the Reginald F. Lewis memorial event at the Lewis estate in East HamptonREAD»

Bonuses Versus the Big Picture

2 February 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com   On his ninth day in office, President Obama took a broad swipe at Wall Street, calling the $18.4 billion in bonuses for 2008 "the height of irresponsibility" and ...READ»

Network Effects

How do Web companies get so big so fast? By embracing the most important strategic mind flip of the 21st century. A world governed by networks is rewriting the rules for how you build companies, market products, and create value.READ»

Welcome to the New Work+Life Flex Normal

Last year an economic bomb detonated and laid to waste the rules and institutions that have guided our decisions related to work, life and business for generations.  Shell-shocked and disoriented, we’re starting to emerge ...READ»

Securitization: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comBefore you read any farther, let's start with a little background on the term securitization and how it's evolved to the present times.  If you click the link toInsightful Articles and ...READ»

Another Wall Street Fiasco!

14 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com An epic fraud has just been uncovered – this time it doesn’t involve those new exotic and complex securitized debt/credit default swap packages.  No, this one is a ...READ»

Wall Street's Den of Thieves

If you follow the trail of deceit from Enron to its natural lair, it only leads to one destination: Wall Street. Here's why.READ»

Googling for Courage

With their daring IPO, Larry Page and Sergey Brin are fighting the Wall Street cartel.READ»

Why the Bailout Failed - Hoisted by our own petard

Hoisted by one’s own petard: to be hurt, or destroyed by one’s own plot or device, of one’s own doing which one intended for another; to be “blown up by one’s own bomb.” He has no one to blame but himself; he ...READ»

The Next Revolution

The next wave of the Internet revolution is happening right now -- in your teenager's bedroom. Michael Lewis tracked the tech-savvy kids who are shaking up corporate America and launching a social revolution in the process.READ»

Has the Face of Capitalism Changed Forever?

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comThe current financial crisis has changed our perceptions of the term capitalism and everything we have always assumed it stood for. The deeper the recession gets, the longer it drags on, the ...READ»

Fast Talk: Voices From the Creative Front Lines

Remember when MBAs ruled? No more. Creative thinkers are in demand for their flexibility. Meet five leaders who have parlayed their "useless" academic degrees into business success.READ»

Digital Matters - Issue 34

"A few years from now, we'll look back on dotcom mania as a model of investment sanity and prudence."READ»

Where Are the Women? III

Where are the women? According to the 2002 documentary film Risk/Reward, they're on Wall Street. In a recent writeup of the documentary, codirectors Xan Parker and Elizabeth Holder expand on what they learned. We thought these ...READ»

Why I Don't Want the Recession to End Yet

As a CEO, I'm eager to put the recession to rest, says Dov Seidman. At the same time, how could we not take this opportunity to ask fundamental questions? Now that there are signs of recovery, there's a part of me — and I'm reluctant to admit this — that doesn't want things to get too good too fast. We could use more time to understand what went wrong with our economy.READ»

How to Repair a Broken Financial World

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN Continued from "The End of the Financial World As We Know It" Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity ...READ»

The End of the Financial World as We Know It

By MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN AMERICANS enter the New Year in a strange new role: financial lunatics. We’ve been viewed by the wider world with mistrust and suspicion on other matters, but on the subject of money even our ...READ»

Live Life Deliberately: Design A Vision!

People who live their visions always seem to have time to do the things they want to do – we often call them “go getters!” They’re focused, make decisions easily and smile often. And they’re flexible – they don’t get “stuck” in their vision and miss better opportunities. As Joseph Campbell said, “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”READ»

A monthly column on Strategy

And you thought the CEO scandals were behind us! Faced with a crisis, what do these whiners do? They lie!READ»

Market Jitters

Volatility "is a unique and necessary condition for the creation of value" in the Internet economy, argues Wall Street analyst and technology strategist Pip Cobourn.READ»

First Look

Crime Scene These days, it's easy to confuse Wall Street and the set of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. But this is actually the breathtakingly sleek, ergonomically correct, ultra-technologically advanced annex to the New York ...READ»

You can change the rules but that won’t change the outcome.

Why do we think more legislation will change the way executives behave?READ»

Wall Street Wreckage

  Wall Street Wreckage   These are profound times. "The Wall Street Wreckage" has been the wake up call not only America needed, but the world needed. In a recent CNN poll over 99% of the participants ...READ»

The End of a Tumultuous Year

31 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com As we start the New Year, it’s time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous year during which nearly every aspect of ...READ»

From Wall Street to Dubai

Diary of a tech entrepreneur's adventures in the hot zone.READ»

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