It Gets Worse
It's a moral outrage that colleges and universities around the United States have devoted their energies to enlarging their endowments at the expense of the education and well being of their students.
The 401(k) system is a disgrace. Let's just admit defeat. We are no match for this powerful industry. We need to stop tinkering with these plans, toss them out, and start all over.
It's a moral outrage that colleges and universities around the United States have devoted their energies to enlarging their endowments at the expense of the education and well being of their students.
I await Corporate Board Member magazine's upcoming article, "How to Icahn-proof your board," with keen interest, particularly since I serve on a number of boards that apparently failed in this regard.
What should be intuitively clear is that spending is no way to repair our woes. Indeed, spending irresponsibly is exactly what got us in the current lugubrious position.
In 1981, video killed the radio star. Here's to hoping the Internet does not inadvertently kill the musician.
For the first time in human history, technology enabled social media allow us to exponentially expand our network of weak ties, potentially into the thousands over a lifetime.
There are only two questions of significance in the Madoff scandal. What does it tell us about our times? What should be done about it?
This stimulus package should have been approved two months ago, but for whatever reason no action has been taken. There is no reason that the public should be forced to wait until mid-February.
When I look at Rupert Murdoch or Barry Diller, I want to be like them -- just as I do when I see anybody else who owns a successful media company, male or female.
When you consider that the birth of a child is a leading cause of a "poverty spell" in America, this solution is one simple answer and it turns out it is good for business.
Obama-nomics won't merely be the New Deal Part Two. It will have to be executed along with policies hammered out in partnership with the best minds and most enlightened leaders in the world.
There will always be co-workers who like to disagree, who think they're never wrong, and who have the ability to suck the energy right out of the room. Don't let them bring you down.
I read the other day that employees of "disgraced billionaire" Bernard Madoff are still showing up to work, doing nothing and still being paid.