I live in the purgatory between Wall Street and academia. I’ve been a trader, author and teacher. One day I will make sense of it all. Thanks for coming along.
Bishmillah
Two songs perplexed, engaged and maddened me and everyone else who grew up back in the 1970s. One, Blinded by the Light, didn’t get that far with its author, Bruce Springsteen, but took over the airwaves under Manfred Mann and his Earth Band. I kind of think it’s about making it in the music business but I really…
One bad Apple don’t spoil the whole bunch, girl…
When I lecture to finance students, I love to tell a story about a company that might well have gone bankrupt over 20 years ago if it hadn’t raised money by issuing convertible bonds. Convertible bonds are my specialty, you see. They’re these weird hybrid investments…
Happy New Year, everyone. Last night I saw the best new movie I’ve seen in quite a few years. Vice. Not flawless but pretty close. Writing, pacing, acting all first-rate. Scary, of course, even if we already knew the story pretty well. No politics here, folks, but see the movie.
Some slogans — not many — deserve extra attention.
The worst I ever saw was for (I think) the consulting firm Accenture. “We give new meaning to the word diligent.” Awful. Start with a cliche, move on to a painfully lifeless word. It’s really a contradiction: if…