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In Defense of the U.S. Taxpayer: End Deferred Compensation and Its Tax Subsidy

The whole issue of executive compensation - both on and off Wall Street - needs a redo. I have a hard time with the concept of large single-year cash payouts. Senior executives should be paid for value creation over time. Just like hedge fund managers. ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, ETF Investor,  2 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Citigroup

Is the Media Actually Fomenting Current Market Volatility?

Without question, we live in a society where media plays a huge role in shaping our perceptions and tastes, whether we like it or not. We are constantly bombarded with explicit and implicit forms of marketing, branding and messaging, and it effects the ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, ETF Investor,  24 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Wall Street Journal,  Warren Buffett

1930's Redux? Possible Global Post-Meltdown Scenarios

What really concerns me, beyond the specifics of the US plan and my deep belief in the necessity of a full Good Bank/Bad Bank restructuring, are the repercussions of a global economic slow-down. Russia has been crushed, and barring some miraculous ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, ETF Investor,  15 Oct 2008

First Thoughts on the Fed Plan

Details are sketchy, but my initial "blink" is positive. This plan is not a panacea by any stretch, but is helping to underpin a measure of confidence in the global financial system that didn't exist only a few days ago. That said, we've got a long, ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, ETF Investor,  14 Oct 2008

Surviving the Financial Nuclear Winter

Everyone has an opinion, yet nobody knows anything (myself included) about what the future holds for the U.S. economy, the global economy and the true depth of the impact of the financial markets crisis. We all know that what happens on Wall Street ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, Seeking Alpha,  7 Oct 2008

Angel Investor Roger Ehrenberg: Want My Money? Here's My Criteria

Much has been written recently about VC and start-up angst in the wake to today's - and likely tomorrow's - poor market conditions. Some analysts, myself included, see this malaise possibly lasting well into the next decade. Albert Wenger wrote a ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, Silicon Alley Insider,  6 Oct 2008

Time to End Government Dickering Before It's Too Late

The past few weeks have yielded some very strange behaviors, some of which reflect a lack of understanding of what needs to be accomplished while others display the sheer fear and panic felt by many in the financial markets. This will make for good ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, ETF Investor,  3 Oct 2008
Related Topics: General Electric,  U.S. Senate

Why Have Things Gone So Wrong?

Lack of transparency. Intellectual dishonesty. Failure to read the pulse of the nation. In my adult life I have never seen a backlash so powerful or so well-timed as this. The voting public called bull#$%& on Hank Paulson, the President, Congress, Ben ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, Seeking Alpha,  30 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Ben Bernanke

What The Hell Just Happened? Blame Paulson, Not Congress

Lack of transparency. Intellectual dis-honesty. Failure to read the pulse of the nation. In my adult life I have never seen a backlash so powerful or so well-timed as this. The voting public called bull#$%& on Hank Paulson, the President, Congress, Ben ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, Silicon Alley Insider,  30 Sep 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  Ben Bernanke

What is Hank Paulson Thinking?

It's only Monday morning and two items have already hit my BS detector: 1. The ability of the SEC to suspend mark-to-market accounting rules on a case-by-base basis. From today's New York Times: While the bill does not drop the accounting rule that ...

From ROGER EHRENBERG, Seeking Alpha,  29 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Citigroup,  Wells Fargo

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