There are a lot of voices out there with ideas about how to brave the economic storm, and none more experienced than Jack Welch. During this rainy Saturday, I had a chance to catch up on some accumulated reading and...

Geoff Colvin is a regular columnist for Fortune and, like others, has focused on the frugality that is gripping more households every day. His recent column is a grim reminder of the value of being "thrifty", a forgotten interloper, it...

I imagine with tomorrow's dawn, that President-Elect Obama will begin pondering that old saw about "be careful what you wish for." We have many struggles ahead, from a sputtering economy to a suffering international reputation,  and a partisan political system...

Amidst the growing partisanship that throttles Washington and the increasing acrimony and venom in our political debate, there is always one Big Picture concept that few of us remember on this day as we vote for our favorite candidates. One...

John Doer, the legendary VC partner of Kleiner, Perkins recently offered his Top Ten list of how to survive during a struggling economy. There is a technology and start-up twist to it that may not be universally applicable, but the...

The Fed confirmed the contraction in the U.S. economy yesterday when it released the preliminary GDP results for Q3. Coupled with the most significant drop in consumer spending since 1980, the troubling signs in everyone's gut have finally reached the...

Happy Halloween, my little hobgoblins. Please allow my stunning assistant to offer you a delicious candied apple! What could be more appropriate . . . from the dawn of mankind when the bite of an apple set the world in...

Is there any evidence that the Federal government has had a real impact on our confidence in the markets and general economy? Very little, I fear. I laugh at the countless reports today that investors are waiting hungrily for the...

All of us are trying to to do things differently, break old habits and transform our personal and professional lives to avoid that definition of insanity by doing the same thing over and over hoping for different results.That's why, for...

There's not much Bullish news to go around these days but that's one of our missions nonetheless. The legendary Jack Welch apparently couldn't agree more. His The Welchway column in this week's BW, The End is Not Here,  should be...

I've been saying for weeks, in various conversations, that one reason  the "crisis in confidence" has transformed fear into anxiety, is the Fed's feckless attempts to "cure the economy". The initial bailout plan stalled as cooler heads insisted on accountability...

There's a parable that's been kicking around for years that I ran across recently and wanted to share with you. I haven't seen it in years but it's an insightful parody of our tax system with a golden nugget of...

Can a President Tame the Business Cycle? is the headline in the recent NY Times article on Sunday about several economic indicators and how they have fared during various Presidential terms. Many of us have believed this for years, but...

Gretchen Morgenson's column in yesterday's NY Times offers an interesting summary of the Executive Compensation guidelines that accompany the taxpayer's investment in the capital markets. A government rescue effort looks appealing in broad economic areas where a central bank fuels...