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| Subject: Leverage Methods used by investors, portfolio managers, issuers, and other market participants to enhance income, even with higher risk. These methods may involve techniques used to artificially or temporarily enhance income. [Capital Market Taxonomy] The Enron scandal By John Schroy, on July 7th, 2006 |  Leave a comment  Unfortunately for society, Jeff Skilling of Enron told the truth according to tenets of moral relativism learned at the Harvard Business School and with McKinsey and Company, when, on being sentenced to decades in prison, he said, “That’s the way the game is played. You win some, you lose some.” Skilling was a representative of corporate executives of his time. He did not work alone, nor was he an isolated ‘bad apple’. July 7th, 2006 | Print Article |  Email Article |  Topics: Adam Smith, CFA, Corporate Governance, CPA, Derivative Strategy, Enron, executive stock options, Harry Markowitz, Harvard Business School, Jeff Skilling, John Maynard Keynes, Ken Lay, Leverage, Long Term Capital Management, McKinsey, Miller and Modigliani, Myron Scholes, risk, Robert Merton, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, securitization | Category: Security Analysis, featured | Leave a comment |  Short urlUS Stocks By John Schroy, on May 31st, 2006 | Leave a comment  The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, by discouraging companies to go public, will exacerbate the shortage of equities, with a negative effect on the US stock market, although this was not the intent of its authors. Poorly drafted, ill-conceived, and unfair this law does little to protect investors. May 31st, 2006 | Print Article | Email Article | Topics: Arthur Andersen, Bernie Ebbers, CalPERS, common stock legend, Corporate Governance, CPA, dividends, Enron, executive stock options, Full Disclosure, General Electric, going private, insider trading, intrinsic value, Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay, KPMG, Leverage, Long Term Capital Management, Martha Stewart, Nobel prize in economics, Off-balance-sheet Tactics, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, RICO, risk, Sarbanes-Oxley Act, US SEC, whistleblowers, Worldcom | Category: US Equities, featured | Leave a comment | Short urlFeatured articles on inside pages
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