Thoughts on policy, business, disclosure, and communications
It was nice last week to be included as a signer of a letter organized by Chris Whalento the Secretary of the Treasury, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Chairmen of the SEC, FDIC, Federal Reserve, and the Acting Director of the FHFA about improving the mortgage market. You can read the letter several places [...]
UPDATE: CROP Walk web donations are closed but you can designate gifts (or make general donations) via the DonateNow or JustGive buttons on the RUMC home page. First, go to the Ramona United Methodist Church CROP Hunger Walk page. Donate a few dollars. A half dozen of the folks with whom I go to church [...]
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. Thanks to another Fortune.com editor, I’m reminded of a lesson
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 failure of vision makes itself apparent [...]
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 information and provide for more accurate evaluation of the trust that one might place in information, a 500-mile drive south of here the world’s [...]
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 debate are immediately below; the debate starts on page H14837. An easier-to-read version of S. 303 is also below. The most important part of the bill, about data standard requirements, [...]
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 coverage of companies hoping to go public in the $50 million – $100 million range. In the 90s, a [...]