Editors Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past co

Just when bank executives appear near the peak of this mountain of populist rage, another landslide sends them tumbling back down again. This week has produced several setbacks, and it’s still

Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

Enter the Dragon!There was a time, about a decade ago, that Cisco (CSCO) executives would comment that Huawei was so good at copying (aka appropriating) Cisco’s technology that it even replicat

Some more thoughts on Priceline.com (PCLN) after the news. If you own stock like Dollar Bill Shatner, go re-order your marble back scratchers.For anyone else?Well, after hours on Monday, the stock tr

It's said that a person’s true character is exposed under pressure. I think the same can be said for companies as well. Late last year I wrote about Riverbed Technology (RVBD) as a good candida

Last week, I confessed to a frugal heresy. Namely, we don't clip coupons. So how are we saving money if we're not busy annoying the people in line behind us with a huge coupon stash?In a nutshell, we

Editor's Note: This article was written by James Quinn, a senior director of strategic planning for a major university. James has held high-level financial positions wit

I’ve been in South America this week, speaking nine times in five days, interspersed with lots of meetings. The conversation kept coming back to the prospects for the dollar, but I was just as

The late Jesse Livermore is considered one of the best traders of all time. His exploits have been chronicled in several books, with the most widely read being Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Ed