It’s hard to generate much sympathy for people who are making tens of millions of dollars a year. But at least the CEOs we’ve …
CEOs
How Much Does The Big Boss Really Matter? (A Partial Defense of Jamie Dimon)
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is scheduled to testify before a Senate committee later this week, the latest in a series of comeuppances in the wake of his firm’s massive trading losses earlier this year. The spectacle will no …
Do Fat CEO Faces Equal Fat Profits?
We generally don’t include the shape of a business exec’s face in our investing advice. But according to a new study, maybe we should.
Insider Trading: Look Who’s Buying on Wall Street
Individual investors have learned this week that trying to predict the direction of the stock market is a fool's game. But there is one group of major league investors who may actually deserve our attention: CEOs and other …
Google’s Cafeteria Is Better Than Ours
I thought our cafeteria was nice.
I’m a big fan of our company caf, the second-floor canteen in the Time-Life building where we stock up on oatmeal and chicken curry and a salad bar I like to believe is unfailingly sanitary. There are stations for freshly made sandwiches and grilled dead meat and “Oriental” noodle specials (cooked in a …
