Wal-Mart is Wal-Smart

The world’s biggest retailer proves the New Economy isn’t just for tech companies. To be at the leading edge of the New Economy, a company doesn’t have to make semiconductors or optical networking components, or even map the human genome. As much as...

“Big Oil” and The High Cost of Demons

Since it has long been known that the best defense is a good offense, it should not be surprising that politicians who have created an economic mess should begin loudly denouncing somebody else as the cause of the public’s problems. Last year, the problem was a...

Diversify Your Portfolio with Tech’s Leaders

Jack Welch, the retiring CEO of General Electric, may be the greatest corporate manager of all time. I’m not comparing him to inventors or entrepreneurs who created great things out of nothing, but as a manager who can run a business, develop talent and...

Lost in the Dark

A week ago I wrote here that the NASDAQ’s highs of Wednesday, May 2, marked the closing bookend of the NASDAQ’s fabulous bull run that carried it 35.6% from the bottom on April 4. So far I’ve been right. From May 2 through yesterday’s close,...

A Golden Opportunity?

Once again we’re faced with a market that doesn’t want to go up, but doesn’t want to go down either. Since last Wednesday’s high on the NASDAQ — which I said was the closing bookend on the NASDAQ’s spring rally — the markets...

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