The herd gets on board EuroTARP
Based on comments this am from CNBC’s Joe “The Hair” Kernen, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson needs to get over to Europe and sheperd a new TARP program. Today’s lead editorial in The...
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Globe Incubator Panel: How to spot and retain the best talent
This month’s instalment of the Globe & Mail’s Incubator Panel (sponsored by Cisco) covers the world of human resource issues. Talent spotting, interviewing tactics, retention, top-grading and so forth. Here is the first of...
“Public Service” — easier said than done part 5
It’s not like I didn’t try to explain it clearly to the Globe & Mail’s City Hall journalist de jour (see prior post “‘Public Service’ — easier said than done part 4” January 30-09)....
Timminco v. Sood part 2
Analysts are hitting the sell button on Timminco (TIM:TSX) as they are discovering that portfolio manager Ravi Sood may well have been right when he said last year that it was his view that...
Make it Seven part 2
I suspect you are having as hard a time as I am understanding what Gary Bettman is mad about (see prior post “Make It Seven” May 6-09). He doesn’t want Jim Balsillie to buy...
Of World Press Freedom Day and the Senate
Why is it that television journalists get both the profile and the plums? Recognized in every restaurant in the land, and always finding a way into the Senate. It just can’t seem fair to...
George Stephanopoulos set the standard for memory loss
Unlike other observers, I don’t have a particular opinion about former PMO Chief of Staff Fred Doucet’s appearance before the Oliphant inquiry. Despite the fact that we both worked in Langevin Block during the...
Is the market is going lower? Of course!
As I walked down a cold Bay Street yesterday, the source of the stock market’s weakness finally dawned on me: it was too high for the times. That’s not to say that the market...
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