Do you expect to make more personal compensation next year than this year? Feeling more confident or less confident in the President’s Economic team as we left government shutdown and the most recent Fiscal Cliff behind? Thoughts on your boss and competitors? Annually...
Stop the Merry-Go-Round: It’s Time to Get Serious and Teach Ethics to Help End the Games The media are filled with the seemingly never-ending games of financial fraud and scandal. We continue to witness a basic lack of ethical standards, the end result of which...
Confidence at All Time High Results of 6th Annual Semaphore PE Industry Confidence Survey Is irrational exuberance on the horizon? Will the Merry-Go-Round ever stop? Can the Masters of the Universe continue to rule? Notwithstanding the recent February Dow swoon the...
Why our feet are not stuck in the mud. I truly thought we might be skipping this 7th annual post – or have to retitle it “Feet Stuck in Mud”. The cycle of summer seems to start only after the kids leave school and then return. My wife Tricia used to say “summer starts...
Why being at the bar won’t get you a drink but will make your dermatologist smile. I’ve been spending my summer with lawyers. It’s not a sentence for misbehavior or because I’ve committed some wrong. It’s not been at BBQ’s or quaffing beers with my friends at the bar...
“Bubble, baby II!” This was the comment left behind in the very last response received in our 13th annual Semaphore Confidence Survey. The comment “Bubble, baby” was my favorite economic analysis comment left a year ago. It seems some of you come back on an annual...
