Forget the statistical analysis, chatter from the guru of the minute, and the price of oil or gold, because we’re in a Mother Goose economy.The author of nursery rhymes summed up our current fi

Editor's Note: This article was written by Chris Tormey, who is presently retired. Until March 2009, he was a partner at SpearpointCapital, a Global Macro Hedge Fund located in New York City.I didn&r

Bye bye, Bernie. A Federal judge sentenced rip-off artist Bernie Madoff to 150 years in prison, the maximum term. For Madoff, 71, it means that his life comes down to a prison cell. Tough luck,

As far back as 2005, CompUSA customers were complaining of long delays in receiving their rebates. So when the company -- now controlled by Mexican uber-billionaire Carlos Slim -- shuttered the last

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Editor's note: Mike O'Rourke is the chief market strategist at BTIG LLC, a premier institutional brokerage and fund services company. He contributes frequently to Minyanville.The difference in diluti

Stickiness: The Holy Grail of marketing execs. The stickier your product, the more it’ll sell. With the Post-it note, however, 3M Corporation (MMM) discovered something unique - a product

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Editor's Note: The below is reprinted with Mike O'Rourke's gracious permission from Bedtime with BTIG. Mr. O'Rourke is the BTIG Chief Market Strategist.In my firm’s final note of 2007, we comme