According to the polls, most New Yorkers still want Governor Andrew Cuomo to stick around. Hard to believe I know but according to Quinnipiac 55% of voters think the embattled a–hole should not step down. This after sending thousands of patients infected with Covid 19 back to nursing homes and[…] Read On
Want a good laugh? The democrats, the left-leaning media, and quite a few republicans and moderates, I should add, think it’s horrible that President Trump has yet to concede a few weeks after the election. Pot meet kettle. Legitimacy of the Trump presidency has been questioned for four years. Lest[…] Read On
“When I took the [Army] service exam, my psych profile fit a certain… “moral flexibility” would be the only way to describe it. I was loaned out to a CIA-sponsored program and we sort of found each other.” Martin Q. Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank I am a practical man. Sure[…] Read On
This week we have two stories about some of the dumbest CEO moves in recent memory. First up: Remember the Kodak story from last week — how the Trump administration shocked the drug world by awarding the flailing camera maker a $765 million loan to make chemicals for big Pharma?[…] Read On
Why is the guy on the right smiling? Last week Monday Kodak CEO and executive chairman Jim Continenza was granted options for 1.75 million shares of Kodak stock by the board. Completely out of the blue. Well, not exactly. The very next day the Trump administration shocked the biotech world[…] Read On
Michael Avenatti. Elizabeth Holmes. Bernie Madoff. Jeff Skilling. Bernie Ebbers. John Rigas. Dennis Kozlowski. Walter Forbes. Joseph Nacchio. Raj Rajaratnam. What do all these names have in common? With the exception of Holmes (criminal trial this summer) they’ve all been convicted of high-dollar (9 or 10 figure) financial crimes including[…] Read On
You haven’t lived until you’ve spent two weeks locked in a conference room with 20 lawyers and analysts wordsmithing an SEC S-1 prospectus line by line in preparation for an IPO. Colonoscopies, jury duty and listening to Alyssa Milano are fun by comparison. Wait, it gets better. After you submit[…] Read On