21 May 2012
One thing seems clear about JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion loss. It’s no longer $2 billion. It’s likely much higher.
21 May 2012
The chief executive of Nasdaq OMX said he was “embarrassed” after technical glitches caused Facebook’s widely-anticipated IPO to be delayed Friday, according to several news reports.
20 May 2012
Washington wants to step up regulation of these complex instruments, but new rules may not be enough to tame them.
20 May 2012
How did you come up with a stock and bond allocation for your retirement plan?
20 May 2012
Rajat Gupta was once a board member at Goldman Sachs and managing director of consulting giant McKinsey & Co. Now, he’s the biggest target yet in the government’s sprawling insider trading crackdown.
20 May 2012
Facebook is finally public, but that won’t solve Greece’s problems.
20 May 2012
20 May 2012
Possibly the most earnest folks in the real estate development industry assembled for the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Congress of the New Urbanism in West Palm Beach, Florida this month. Among the excellent accomplishments of CNU20 attendee…
19 May 2012
I knew there was the possibility that this month’s Congress of New Urbanism — CNU20 — in West Palm Beach would be an exercise in brainwashing. While I was excited to be meeting some of the thinkers at the forefront of my profession, I certainly w…
18 May 2012
The $104 billion Facebook IPO testifies to the still considerable innovative power of Silicon Valley, but the hoopla over the new wave of billionaires won’t change the basic reality of the state’s secular economic decline.
This contradicts the …
17 May 2012
With Facebook poised to go public, the attention of the tech world, and Wall Street, is firmly focused on Silicon Valley. Without question, the west side of San Francisco Bay is by far the most prodigious creator of hot companies and has the high…
16 May 2012
The Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCN) and the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA) have expressed serious concern about generally longer commute trip times making Canadian metropolitan areas less competitive. Each has called for addit…