New Fortune.com managing editor (and ’95 Medill grad) Daniel Roth (@danroth) gave me a chance the other day to write a guest column on transparency and financial recovery and XBRL. It’s now here.

Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Feb 20, 2010

Local Investing Can Build Global Markets

I’ve been the strongest possible advocate for global free trade ever since my Soviet Economic Institutions professor diverged from the syllabus to draw Ricardo’s theory on the board and prove unequivocally and concisely that it makes everyone better off. I…

Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Feb 14, 2010

Davos Mistakes about Securitization

I watched a C-SPAN replay tonight of a Jan. 29 panel at Davos in which five industry leaders pontificate about the future of the world. This was after tonight’s 60 Minutes lead report on the exclusive Davos gathering. The 60 Minutes report was as good as ever, but a…

Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Jan 28, 2010

My Davos Contribution: How Finance and XBRL Can Restart Sustainable Growth

BRUSSELS — As I’m enjoying outstanding Belgian cuisine with the family of a CLOUD, Inc. colleague after a day of meetings about how computer standards can improve the clarity and efficient use of…

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Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Dec 16, 2009

XBRL, Journalism, Lawyering, Business, Charlie Hoffman, and the Semanitc Web

Charlie Hoffman just made the most enlightening post I’ve read in a long time. It’s no accident that the best journalism is the most direct: subject, verb, object. Similarly, clarity is essential to…

Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Dec 10, 2009

XBRL Data Tagging Standards Advance on Two Fronts

Updated: 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, Dec. 15

Government Transparency

Updates:

The House approved S. 303 by voice vote on Monday, Dec. 14. The bill text and…

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Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Nov 19, 2009

A Thought on Capital Market Power, Risk, Small Caps, and Large Caps

A few days ago I tweeted a question about whether a theory that less expensive stock trading contributed to fewer IPO’s holds water. The theory is that cheaper trading results in less revenue to fund analyst…

Paul Wilkinson in pjwilk

Nov 8, 2009

‘People Have More to Fear from Governmental Responses to Economic Crisis than from Crisis Itself’

Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government