Reading Fortune Magazine’s “Leading Indicators” in the September 4, 2006 edition, I ran across this tidbit:
$1.1 billion. Projected value of work hours used for playing fantasy football this season. The player (there are 36.8 million of ‘em in the U.S.) earn on average about $36 an hour and will spend about 50 minutes playing each [...]
At a recent physical exam, my weight was a tad above what I want it to be (probably all muscle, but you can never be too sure). So I went web surfing a bit about weight gain trends and found an article proclaiming that obesity is becoming a world-wide problem. It seems the availability of [...]
Privacy isn’t just about hiding what you do. It’s about confidence that your information can’t be falsified, forged, or misused.
Investors say it’s a bad idea for companies to stop giving quarterly guidance. I think investors are just flat-out wrong. Quarterly guidance certainly distorts management decision-making, so we know it’s bad for the companies. It’s good for investors because it relieves them of the burden of having to research the companies they invest in, and [...]
