‘People Have More to Fear from Governmental Responses to Economic Crisis than from Crisis Itself’
November 8th, 2009 by Paul
Economic Contractions in the United States: A Failure of Government
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Google, SAP, and Salesforce.com Could Save Credit Markets and Journalism
November 2nd, 2009 by Paul
Saturday’s Barron’s had a pithy review of Ken Aulettta’s Googled: The End of the World As We Know It.To sum it up, reviewer Mark Veverka says, “Google’s science exposes the inefficiency of traditional advertising and threatens to remove middlemen.” In other words, as went record labels and travel agents, so goes my first chosen profession, journalism. The inefficiency of
Could New SEC Disclosure Rule Revive Asset-Backed Securities Market?
October 21st, 2009 by Paul
Updated: Dec. 15, 2009 Update: The SEC published its one-year extension on Dec. 15, 2009. Extension of Filing Accommodation for Static Pool Original Post The SEC on Monday quietly proposed a brief rule to give asset-backed securities issuers an extra year of status quo disclosure. The original rule was approved in December 2004. Monday’s 17-page [...]
If this is Chris Whalen’s Draft, I Can’t Wait for His Final
October 20th, 2009 by Paul
Institutional Risk Analyst co-founder Chris Whalen writes in the new edition of his newsletter: Until we break the Alliance of Convenience between the Congress, the Fed and the large, TBTF (too big to fail) banks and force our public officials to embrace core American values regarding transparency, insolvency and accountability, we will not in my [...]
Standards Question: NIEM is to XBRL as United States Customary Units are to the Metric System?
September 14th, 2009 by Paul
True or false? NIEM is to XBRL as United States customary units are to the Metric System. The good news is people are working to make sure we don’t need to care. Diane Mueller links to that work from her latest thoughtful piece on the state of transparency. There are alternatives to linking to show authenticity [...]
XBRL: New Structure and Price of Information Focus of Day 1
July 28th, 2009 by Paul
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – The XBRL Pacific Rim Technology Workshop and Summit kicked off Tuesday afternoon with experts agreeing about the quality of the first 42 mandatory U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings and demonstrating palpable ambition for the future of free financial information. Well, mostly free.