The Washington Post reports that “secret negotiations” that were going on between the US Forest Service and a publicly-traded company – Plum Creek Timber Company (NYSE: PCL) – would allow the company to use taxpayer-owned land to...

Each day’s news flow across this commentator’s desk brings a series of news reports that point to the complicated world in which executives and boards make decisions – and which stakeholders and stockholders in some way react to!...

My last column in this space (July 16) began with sports writer and social commentator Jimmy Cannon’s famous [column] phrase, “Nobody Asked Me, But…” So who was this guy, Jimmy Cannon, my younger colleagues asked? And what were...

NOBODY ASKED ME, BUT!  Does anyone recall the great sports writer and social commentator, Jimmy Cannon?  What a writer – when I was a teenager I devoured his newspaper columns here in New York, and they were in part an...

Summer 1929 – the warning signs were there and the smart money (think of investor Joseph Kennedy, father of the brothers John, Bobby and Teddy and the legendary Bernard Baruch, advisor to presidents) were moving to cash and off...

The stuff of Legends: The High Drama in the Canyons of Lower Manhattan seems to be coming to an end – the New York State Appellate Court ruled 3-to-1 this week that Richard Grasso, former high-wattage Chairman and CEO of the New...

Banking is a very complex business, highly regulated, very interconnected – and absolutely vital to the well-being of our nation, and every one of us. So when banking gets in trouble – look out! And much of the commercial...

This on-line journal is titled “Accountability Matters,” and we note (above) that “accountability really does matter” to all of us. So, too “Politics Matters,” says CNN senior commentator and well-known author David Gergen. We...

Amidst the noise and news a few weeks back when the largest meat recall in the history of the United States was taking place, the good news was overlooked, and we want to hold it up here today to ensure more folks see Corporate...

Many of the dramatic events of the year 1968 are still clear in my mind this morning. Living in that time, being a young journalist and then corporate manager active in many of the events that took place, and then looking back...