Mike Steinhardt submits: Richard Fisher, President of the Dallas Fed has been talking tough lately about inflation. He even dissented from the rest of the FOMC yesterday and voted for a 25 bps hike. BFD But before you get impressed that Fisher knows what he is doing...
"Six Sigma practitioners occasionally conduct studies to assess differences between items such as operators or machines. When the experimental data are measured on a continuous scale (measuring nozzle diameter in microns, for example), a procedure such as “Student’s” two-sample t-test may be appropriate, but misleading as well.The article emphasizes on...
Joe Ponzio submits: Phil Fisher laid out fifteen points to look for in a common stock; three of them are directly related to profit margins. Calculated as net income divided by revenue, the profit margin is a quick way to determine which companies in an industry are most...
This paper proposes a Fisher Efficient estimator in the model of independent component analysis ICA. First, it provides a n-consistent estimator using the empirical characteristic function, and then, shows that by directly estimating the efficient influence function, we can construct a one-step maximum likelihood estimate MLE which reaches asymptotic Fisher...
Joe Ponzio submits: Today's research and development [R&D] is tomorrow's new product or process. The other day we (or more specifically, Phil Fisher) asked, "Does the management have a determination to continue to develop products or processes that will still further increase total sales potentials when the growth potentials...
Fortune writer Anne Fisher serves up 10 ways to get a grip on your overloaded inbox—and save yourself time and money in the process. One of the highlights:Send less. Think hard before you use the "reply to all" and "cc" features, and use group distribution lists sparingly. By targeting your...
David Merkel submits: I’ve mentioned this before at RealMoney, but in early 2000, I was doing some serious thinking about investing. I decided to e-mail Ken Fisher a question that he had touched on in one of his Forbes pieces. That began an e-mail dialog that forced me to...
Newspapers aren't famous for their knowledge of management. But Jill Geisler, the management guru at the Poynter Institute, a news industry think tank and training ground, has put together a not-bad list of management books. For improving as a manager: "Understanding and Changing...
Grace Cheng submits: The US dollar fell against the Euro after the Fed held the main interest rate unchanged at 2%, ending a series of 7 consecutive cuts. What happened? Most market participants had expected the Fed to keep the rate unchanged anyway in Wednesday’s FOMC meeting. Initially the dollar...
Joe Ponzio submits: When you buy stock in a company, how long do you plan on holding it? Forever. Ideally, yes. But we live in the real world ? a world of wildly fluctuating stock prices that often turns otherwise sane investors into panicky, self-doubting lemmings. As stock prices...
Mattel's Fisher Price division announced yesterday that it will recall 967,000 plastic toys, including Big Bird, Elmo, and Dora the Explorer, after learning its Chinese vendor used paint that contains more than .06 percent lead (the amount determined by the Consumer Product Safety Commission to be acceptable.) Luckily, two-thirds of...
Fisher Vista, a leading marketing and public relations firm servicing the human resources industry, announced today that it has launched HR Marketersm, a first-of-its kind web-based marketing and public relations service focused exclusively on the rapidly growing human capital market. This service was very important for managing policies of the...
Market Folly submits: Wednesday on twitter, I "tweeted" that I was most likely going to get long Illumina ILMN, and that's exactly what I did. If you haven't noticed, there's been a big rotation into healthcare/biotech/bioscience companies as of late. I already have exposure to this somewhat through Gilead GILD,...
This paper gives a review of economic studies of life insurance and theory of consumers. Marshall and fisher theories are explained in this paper.One hardly might be reminded that the consumer who makes plans for the future one way or another, takes account of the fact that how long he...
