Lifted from Robert Waldmann’s more private thoughts
…controlled firms went bankrupt. Those were budgets under Romney’s control (sole shareholder CEO and all that) which were as un balanced as budgets can be. I know I am mixing…
…controlled firms went bankrupt. Those were budgets under Romney’s control (sole shareholder CEO and all that) which were as un balanced as budgets can be. I know I am mixing…
The excellent Justin Fox makes the excellent point that I have made many times: that nobody in the ecosystem of publicly traded companies — including shareholders – is anything like…
…the Supreme Court to shield corporate securities fraud perpetrators and their professional aiders and abettors from shareholder and consumer accountability. During the same period, the dismantling of the Glass-Steagall Act’s…
…often come at the expense of the company’s workforce and its ability to innovate and compete in the long run. Furthermore, the focus on financial engineering and maximizing shareholder value…
…of which he was the CEO and sole shareholder. Does he think, in retrospect, that his subordinates did something wrong by offshoring jobs? Clearly he didn’t, which highlights the absurdity…
…have happened would be if Romney significantly undervalued the actual value of the assets he was placing into that account. Paul Krugman in his New York Times column on Monday…
…is whether greater exposure to U.S. securities laws and regulations would cause an increase in firm value. The primary focus on whether a firm can increase value through bonding to…
…to use it). They are senior to shareholders, so if shareholders are protected, they are too. The shareholders are not organized enough to loot — a shareholders resolution which says…
…shareholder in a steel mill that had been operating since 1888. It was a gamble. The old mill, renamed GS Technologies, [skip] a federal government insurance agency had to pony…
…shareholder on the same profits.” Its odd to me that the above disparate treatment of otherwise similarly-situated earners is defended on the basis of “fairness.” Is this 1984? And I…