Topic: Richard Peterson

For years, when my family made our annual summer drive from the NYC suburbs to Ocean City, Maryland it was tradition to stop at the same Delaware Denny's. S&P's Michael Thompson, Robert Keiser and Richard Peterson note that since ...
NC man jailed for 3 days as probation violator for appearing on Jerry Springer show A North Carolina man was sentenced to three days in jail for violating probation by leaving the state to appear on "" The Gaston Gazette reported Thursday that ...
RICHARD J. PETERSON Director of Markets, Credit and Risk Strategies, Standard & Poor's . As the great philosopher Casey Stengel once said, "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. The fact is that the third quarter of 2008 was the ...

Using Heat To Cool

"Waste heat is a more common resource than most people realize," says Richard Peterson, a mechanical engineer and thermodynamics professor at Oregon State University. There, the Army sets up mobile command centers powered by banks of diesel generators that produce electricity for ...

Bad Decisions in Bad Economic Times

A lot of financial stress is going around these days, which puts us in particular danger of making stupid mistakes.You'd think the opposite would be true -- that we'd get more conservative with our money when we're feeling pinched ...

Market Mess? Blame Your Brain

What caused the meltdown on Wall Street? But the ratings agencies were being compensated by issuers of the mortgage-backed securities, and neuroeconomics says that created big problems. "You don't get mistakes this big based on stupidity alone," says George Loewenstein of ...

FROM BUYOUT TO BUSTED

FROM BUYOUT TO BUSTED A record number of private equity-backed companies are filing for bankruptcy. As of Sept. 9, according to Richard Peterson at Capital IQ (like BusinessWeek, a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies) 134 American companies taken private (or invested in ...
Wallace F. Forbes, president of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, hosted a financial roundtable discussion on Feb. 2. Today, we present the opening remarks of Chief Market Strategist Richard Peterson from Thomson Financial. At Thomson, we have the opinion that what lies ...

Earnings To The Rescue

Wallace F. Forbes, president of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, hosted a financial roundtable discussion on Feb. 2. Today, we present the opening remarks of Chief Market Strategist Richard Peterson from Thomson Financial. At Thomson, we have the opinion that what lies ...