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- Why Are Bankers Like Lemmings Over The Cliff?
- Why Are Bankers Like Lemmings Over The Cliff?Blame it on the greedy and stupid owners / shareholdersIt all starts with the owners/investors.They often want fast, easy money and everything is set up to pursue this end: wimpy boards, dodgy executives, a chorus of yes-men, and an army of middle managers...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
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- Why Are Bankers Like Lemmings Over The Cliff?
- Lo these many years, I've seen bankers and the overall financial business do so many stupid things. First in no particular order was the Third World debt crisis. Remember? These guys were tripping over themselves to lend to tin pot dictators who had no chance of ever repaying. ...
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- What the kids are reading.(Books and Arts)(Brief Article)
- IMAGINATION is something children have in glorious abundance. And they like their books to be full of imagination too-funny, colourful, off-the-wall. As consumers, though, children have all the imagination of lemmings. Herd instinct takes over. Chang IMAGINATION is something children have in glorious abundance. And ...
- Research articles 2000-12-23
- Make known our dissent - Letters
- * Your editorial's headline, "Leading us to a war with no end" (NCR, Feb. 8) is scary. If 80 percent of Americans are willing to be led like lemmings into a war defined by the Bush administration, with information about military action doled out only if it's in their best...
- Research articles 2002-03-08
- Shareholder Meetings Have Become a Circus
- The RSPCA ordered the removal of the dozen lemmings brought to British Airways' shareholders' meeting but they had done their job of illustrating the fate the trade unions think their members face. Boards have become used to meetings being hijacked for publicity stunts, but the practice will...
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Nasdaq markets - Brief Article
- Last week's roller coaster rides on both the Dow and Nasdaq markets not only highlighted the fact that the over-inflated dot.com bubble could burst at any moment, it also proved that people are basically lemmings when it comes to stock market panicking. There may be good reasons to buy and...
- Research articles 2000-04-10
- Apple benches ad plans for the Super Bowl.
- [Cupertino, Calif.] Apple Computer said it will not advertise on the Super Bowl, ending plans for what would have been the company's first appearance on the event since its controversial 1985 ... [Cupertino, Calif.] Apple Computer said it will not advertise on the Super Bowl,...
- Research articles 1999-01-18
- A Herd of Multi-Billion-Dollar Lemmings
- Let’s talk about Friday. For those of you who were away from your computers, on Friday stocks staged a huge rally with the S&P 500 jumping 2.35%. This move was accompanied by an enormous jump in the US dollar and a dramatic plunge in commodities, particularly oil and gold....
- External links 2008-08-11
- The Herd of Lemmings, Part II
- On Monday we discussed the trading patterns and investment relationships followed by hedge funds and other quick moving investment groups. Today we’re delving into how these relationships and herd mentality impacted the financial markets last Friday. The first indication that Friday was an unusual trading day occurred when oil...
- External links 2008-08-12
- A Lilly-ImClone Deal May Offer the Drama that CEO Lechleiter Craves
- Today came the news that Eli Lilly is one of the mystery suitors in the ImClone deal that Bristol-Myers Squibb was just booted from. If CEO John Lechleiter were to scoop up ImClone -- thus bolting on the cancer specialist's pipeline to replace the absence of its...
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- Is Ronald McDonald a Safer Bet than Uncle Sam?
- Tony Daltorio submits: This past week saw a remarkable occurrence. The cost of insuring against a U.S. default via credit derivatives hit record levels. It now costs more to insure against a U.S. default on their debt than it does to insure against a default by McDonald's MCD. Ronald McDonald...
- External links 2008-10-07
- Flight for sight -- See-attle
- If you see all kinds of folks with suitcases headed for Downtown Airpark, don't think it's lemmings heading for the sea. Well, maybe you could think that because each suitcase carrier thinks he or she might be heading to the Pacific Ocean. Once again, Prevent Blindness Oklahoma...
- Research articles 1997-03-21
- 5 Shortcuts To A New Job
- You call an employer, but the company isn't interested in hiring. Try asking the magic question: "What could you use some help with?" More often than you might expect, that question can lead to a temporary or full-time job created just for you. Jobseekers are lemmings. Many go after jobs...
- White papers 2006-06-18
- Gold Even More Attractive as Cash Yields Approach 0%
- Calvin Oh submits: I've had my fair share of philosophical arguments in regards to gold and economics. Most of the time I feel like I'm shadow boxing because I'm usually introducing elements to my opponents that they've never been exposed to. And when I expose them to the pragmatism of...
- External links 2009-01-13
- Dryships - Reality Strikes Back
- Trader Mark submits: What has been so interesting about this market is watching so many names run up on nothing but thesis. The lemmings have taken to oil as if it's a global thermometer - if oil is up $1 that day, then ALL of the world's trade is coming...
- External links 2009-01-22
- Free Is a Four-Letter Word
- Walter Isaacson is generating lots of mostly scornful comments for his cover story in Time about How to Save Your Newspaper. For a good synopsis of his idea for saving papers and the scorn about it, see this BNET post, The Problems with Walter Isaacsons's Newspaper Rescue Plan. ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Why Wall Street Analysts Get It Wrong So Often
- I once asked the chief economist of a big-name investment bank why his peers always extrapolate current trends out to infinity to make their forecasts when the central belief of their discipline is that everything goes in cycles. He tried to mount a defense, but his heart wasn't in it....
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- NuVasive: Not for the Faint of Heart
- Trader Mark submits: NuVasive NUVA is an interesting smallish cap medical device company I've followed for a long time. She is not for the feint of heart - and this stock's reaction around earnings season is why earnings are the best of times / worst of times for me. I...
- External links 2009-04-27
- How Lemmings draft a menu
- Listen: That crunch you hear is the sound of quick-service chains squashing their points of differentiation. Instead of learning from the tragic blunder of casual dining, players one click down the service spectrum are just as avidly turning their menus into clones of the competition's line-up. If they haven't already...
- Research articles 2008-05-12
- Houston Ballet And Boston Ballet - Review
- HOUSTON BALLET AND BOSTON BALLET BROWN THEATER, HOUSTON MARCH 4-14, 1999 SHUBERT THEATRE, BOSTON MARCH 9, 1999 Cynically speaking, the dance world always subliminally demands and then apparently anoints a current "hottest young choreographer." Sometimes this title seems to be bestowed by a consensus of lemmings; at the moment...
- Research articles 1999-06-01
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