Investment

Budget Battles

  • Diversity in Boardrooms: Careful What You Wish For

    By Liz Peek

    Do-gooders working to demolish “buddy-boards” in hopes of strengthening corporate oversight may have had just the opposite effect. As directors become more powerful and the entities they oversee more...

  • Can Meg Whitman Deliver Real Growth at HP?

    By Suzanne McGee, The Fiscal Times

    Investors heaved a sigh of relief – rhetorically speaking – last week, when Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) announced plans to boost its bottom line by cutting 27,000 employees , saving some $3.5 billion...

  • Facebook Guessing Game: What's It Really Worth?

    By Nancy Miller, The Fiscal Times

    The problem underpinning analysts' various numbers is the inherent uncertainty about Facebook’s growth prospects – an uncertainty that allows “dreamers” to see plenty of upside where “realists” are...

  • How Europe Can Save the EU: Work Harder, Spend Less

    By Alan Wheatley, Reuters

    The euro's woes are largely irrelevant. Europe would have to pull up its socks with or without the single currency. The really big challenges to Europe's standard of living come from globalization,...

  • JPMorgan's Loss: What Banks Still Haven't Learned

    By Knowledge Wharton, Knowledge@Wharton

    Lawmakers continue to wrangle over the best way to moderate the systemic risk caused by financial institutions that are "too big to fail," and the top banks -- including JPMorgan Chase -- have only...