Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Worried About That Used Car You're Thinking of Buying? Go to New York City.

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Why regulate? I'll say it again: Because if you don't, too many people won't do the right thing. I wish that weren't true...
Friday, July 18, 2014

How Is Inversion Different From Evasion?

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If you're talking taxes, the answer's easy: Inversion is legal, evasion is not. But if you're talking the morality of tax-avo...
Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Hate Those Regulations And Unions? Look In The Mirror, And You'll See Why They Exist

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Senior managers seem to take great pleasure in excoriating the twin evils of government regulation and labor unions. Without those, they say...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Is It Possible to be TOO Transparent?

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You know how I'm going to answer that question, right? But I've been thinking about it all day, after reading an article by Bill ...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Just How "Rigorous" Should a "Rigorous Inspection" Be?

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Many years ago, I worked for an automotive manufacturer. It was a common saying that "all new cars are alike, but every used car is d...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Do The Right Thing, Even If You Don't Want To... And It Just Might Be Profitable, Too

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It's depressing when someone has to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the right thing... and then turns around and makes a ginormou...
Tuesday, June 17, 2014

We All Knew It. And Now There Seems to be Proof.

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There's a flurry of activity in the stock of Company X, for no apparent reason. And then, after the fact, after the acquisition (or merg...