Weigh In On …

Here are three topics for your to weigh in on based on recent discussions: * Are B-Schools Setting Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? * Deficit Reduction: Speculation Tax? * Should short-selling be banned? – The uptick rule got reinstated this week, by the way.

How Does the Uptick Rule Affect Stock Prices?

By Guest Author Tim Smith [More than 5,000 people signed a petition calling for the reinstatement of the uptick rule that was prepared by Jim Cramer, William Furber, Eric Oberg and Scott Rothbort and sent to the SEC earlier this week. In today’s guest post, Tim Smith of SunGard’s Astec Analytics weighs on the effects

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Capitalism 2.0: Credit

As I have been dialoging with friends and colleagues on Capitalism 2.0, Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, wrote in response to Capitalism 2.0: Value Creation vs. Value Destruction : “I have a somewhat different take; I believe easy credit from Federal Reserve + leveraged speculation (i.e speculating with borrowed money) create a toxic combination that

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Sun: Now What?

I was never happy about the prospect of the IBM-Sun merger, and am glad to see that the deal has fallen through. But the question now looms even larger: what happens to Sun next?

Capitalism 2.0: Value Creation vs. Value Destruction

In the Creator vs. Speculator debate, there is also the need to deal with the issue of when speculation becomes a way of value destruction as opposed to value creation. One of the problems that we have with Wall Street compensation is that traders make money both as the market goes up and as the

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Financial Crisis & Short-Selling

I am not an expert on financial markets. To the extent I write about stocks and markets, I stick to what I know and understand: technology, products, business, and strategy. However, I have often wondered what good does short-selling bring about as a financial tool.