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- Perk Walk: Countrywide Edition
- The Alfred E. Neuman "What? Me Worry?" Award of the Week goes to... Step on up, David Sambol, the soon-to-be former chief operating officer of the soon-to-be-extinct Countrywide Financial Corp. Apparently undaunted by his company's cratering on his watch, Sambol...
- Articles 2008-08-05
- A Real Death: Is Corporate Evil to Blame?
- Can a Business Be Evil? asks Lew McCreary in an excellent, five-paragraph post on Harvard Business Publishing. If not, then who is responsible for the death of Carlene Balderrama, a 53-year-old wife and mother who killed herself hours before her house was to be sold in a foreclosure auction? ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-05
- Wallstrip: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (FNM, FRE)
- Will the government save the day, or has the sun already set? Julie Alexandria summarizes the current mortgage mess.
- Videos 2008-07-21
- GM's Lender/Borrower Double Standard?
- Are the folks at General Motors guilty of a double-standard, or hypocrisy, or possibly even an ethical breach, for the very different ways it's behaving as a lender and a borrower in the mortgage mess? They're at least guilty of not doing unto others as they would have done...
- Blog posts 2008-05-14
- George Soros Puts the Bite on Markets
- George Soros knows financial markets -- it's how he got to be a billionaire. So when he starts pointing out fundamental flaws in today's markets and calls for reform, he's doing it from within the machine. Soros has a new book out, "The New Paradigm for Financial...
- Blog posts 2008-05-06
- Moody's, UBS Downgrade Each Other. Eyes Roll.
- To get a snapshot of how messed up things have gotten in the financial industry during the credit crunch, consider this little parable in the news Wednesday. UBS analysts issued a report on the firms that rated the subprime mortgage. The analysis seems sound enough. However, it...
- Blog posts 2008-04-03
- Citigroup Keeps Reshuffling Executive Ranks
- Citigroup is hiring rising star Terri Dial to head its consumer business. Dial is leaving a similar post she held at Lloyd's TSB, the U.K. checking-account provider, where she was credited with improving its retail bank operations. Citigroup is hungry for new managers who can shake things...
- Blog posts 2008-03-31
- Motorola Split Upstaged by Insider Rant
- Say your company is on the ropes and you launch a major initiative to grab headlines and show you're serious about turning things around. The last thing you want is someone stealing your thunder. That's the situation faced by Motorola, the tech giant that said Wednesday...
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- Countrywide, Bear Stearns: Failures in Governance
- We've now seen two financial firms fail in the subprime mortgage mess--Countrywide Financial and Bear Stearns. What do they share in common? Spectacularly bad corporate governance. Â There's been a long-running debate among shareholder activists and corporate leaders whether "good governance" equals "good business," or merely consists of...
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Bear Stearns' Secrecy Comes Home to Roost
- Here's the tricky thing about keeping secrets on Wall Street: It's terrific fun until it isn't. Just ask Alan Schwartz, the CEO of punch-drunk Bear Stearns. His firm was the first domino to topple, setting off a cascading chain of events that has spread from mortgages, to derivatives, to...
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Alan Greenspan: Hero or Villain?
- Benjamin M. Friedman, a political economist at Harvard, has a review of Alan Greenspan’s "The Age of Turbulence" in the latest issue of the New York Review of Books (see Chairman Greenspan's Legacy). Why read a review almost six months after its subject has been published? For its nuance and...
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Want to Acquire E*Trade? Better Wait
- A sale of E*Trade, the online discount broker with an acute case of the mortgage blues, is now inevitable. But when will it happen? E*Trade appointed Donald Layton to be its new CEO, replacing R. Jarrett Lilien who after a little more than three months in the...
- Blog posts 2008-03-07
- How Your Search Marketing May Be "Short" Sighted
- I like to call the early days of web marketing the 'apple pie a la mode' days. Back then, all you had to do was fill a web page with specific valuable keywords ("mortgage online", for example) and the traffic just flowed in -- easy peasy. ...
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Poll: A Trump-Style Pitch
- Donald Trump has been advertising free training seminars on how to make money from the foreclosures coming out of the subprime mortgage mess, but a Los Angeles Times reporter found that the seminars were nothing more than a "two-hour infomercial" for a three-day workshop Trump sells for $1,495. (The Donald...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Searching For the Right Career Fit
- Remember that children's book Are You My Mother? It's about a baby bird who hatches when his mother is away, and he falls out of the nest. Throughout the book, he searches for his mother, approaching a dog, a plane, a cow, and even a steam shovel and asking them...
- Blog posts 2008-02-06
- The Stunning Subprime Mess
- How bad is the subprime crisis? This from the New York Times, in the wake of the Swiss bank UBS announcing huge write-downs related to subprime mortgages: Banks worldwide have announced more than $135 billion in credit losses and write-downs since the...
- Blog posts 2008-01-30
- Why the Rate Cut Did Little for the Market
- The Federal Reserve's 3/4-point rate cut did little to sway the mind of Wall Street -- all despite the fact that it was the largest cut in the funds rate since August, 1984. MSNBC thinks the answer is in the housing market. The uncertainty surrounding the housing sector has...
- Blog posts 2008-01-23
- MarketBusting
- The Idea in Brief You can't outperform rivals if you compete the same way they do. To be king of the jungle, not copycat, you must spur substantial new growth--quickly, profitably, and safely. ...
- Articles 2008-01-04
- Mortgage Lenders Should Be Doing Better PR
- As the mortgage crisis rolls along, I've been surprised at the relative lack of positive PR from the mortgage industry. Maybe they are just too busy righting their ships to worry about PR, but it seems to me that they ought to have been out there with some positive...
- Blog posts 2007-12-27
- Top 10 Business Stories of 2007 and What We Had to Say
- We're going to see a lot of 2007 wrap-up articles and blogs over the next couple of weeks (like our recently posted Best Productivity Tips of 2007) not to mention predictions for 2008. It's what you do in December, and we embrace it. BusinessWeek churned out a list of the...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
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