Topic: Mike Milken

Peter Cottontail and the Energizer (ENR) bunny are both in big trouble, albeit for different reasons. While everyone's Easter favorite is currently...

No big surprises in iPhone 4

On Black Monday in 1987, I remember a conversation with Mike Milken. Milken said, "I can identify at least 500 individual money pools with $500 million available for the market. With Treasury bills yielding 15% in the summer of 1982, the S ...
Yesterday I went to a seminar at NYU where I heard Andrei Shleifer defend his paper on how financial innovation causes crises. At the same time, Mike Milken published an op-ed saying that financial innovation is a wonderful thing, and that what ...
Were dreaming of a white Christmas.Everybody knows how close Las Vegas came to having one this year. Larson is the principal of C.T. Sewell Elementary School in Hen derson. Sewell is one of eight empowerment schools in the School District ...
Focus solely on price, and miss the big picture.. But if you prefer to focus on price, remember what I said in my Kairos post, "... note those stocks that build internal bases and improve on a technical basis within the confines of ...

Our Choice: To Make A Healthier America

Mike Milken was called " The Man Who Changed Medicine" in a Fortune magazine cover story highlighting his three decades of work to accelerate medical research. Milken also chairs the Milken Institute, a major economic think tank whose annual Global Conference brings 3 ...

The Worst Ain't Over

The end is nowhere in sight. BAC - news - people ) and American International Group (nyse: AIG - news - people ) make the list of top-10 losers. In AIG's case, reality came late, and its headman was shown the door. Ironically, the concept of securitized ...

True Confessions On Wall Street

Bit by bit, Wall Street is emptying its pockets of the collateralized junk accumulated the past few years. Citi pressed for just 25 basis points more.. Multibillion-dollar savings and loans who bought Drexel's junk bond deals in the 1980s collapsed too ...