Fed’s Looming Challenge

In their much anticipated meeting this week, the Fed did what Wall Street wanted – Do Nothing. It kept its key interest rate steady and decided to wait at least a couple more months before starting to scale back its $4.5 trillion balance sheet. This was...

The What Ifs?

  At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting last month, Warren Buffett conceded that he missed an opportunity on Amazon and made a mistake by not buying Google shares. When probed as to why he didn’t buy shares on these two companies, he summed it up in one...

Tweets: Method or Madness?

With just 2 weeks till Trump assumes the Presidency, his unorthodox mode of communication continues unabated, wading into topics and subjects, large and small with little to no depth or subtlety. On Tuesday, Ford Motor said it will cancel a planned $1.6 billion...

Have you cut the cord yet?

Disruption in TV viewing began with the VCR whereby consumers did not have to watch TV live and could record the programs for later viewing. Since then, we have come a long way to possibly the next major disruption – one does not need cable or satellite...

Wealth Management – Plan Today, Profit Tomorrow

Many people look to the stock market and other financial instruments as a way to secure their retirement. However, with prices that constantly rise and fall, and markets that change by the second, this can be a daunting prospect to those who may not be able to risk as...

Why Comcast Wireless is a Bad Idea

In a seminal  management article published in 1990 titled “Core Competence of an Corporation”, authors C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel highlighted the importance of developing a competence which enables introduction of a product that benefits the customer, and that are...
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