Goodbye and Thank You (July 07, 2005)

I'm leaving Miami today for a while (just ahead of Hurricane Dennis). We should be passing through London tomorrow morning.... (Category: Miscellany)

Use it Wisely (July 06, 2005)

New credit cards just arrived from an extremely large financial institution with a cute little logo on the activation stickers... (Category: Finance)

Gambling and the Financial Markets. (July 05, 2005)

I'm wondering about the connections between gambling and investing (which has been a theme here over the last few weeks).... (Category: Finance)

EU Business Policy (July 03, 2005)

There's always a big fuss when the Presidency of the EU changes and this time Tony Blair's Labour Government is... (Category: Europe)

Flying Swans (July 02, 2005)

According to the BBC (which has a link from this page), the UK is the first EU Member State to... (Category: Europe)

Don't Waste a Minute at the Casino (July 02, 2005)

The New York Times reports that casinos in Nevada are introducing wireless systems (I.e. not "internet gambling") so that their... (Category: Popular Culture)

UK EU Presidency: Better Regulation (July 01, 2005)

One of the (many) priorities for the UK Government's 6 month Presidency of the EU, which begins today, is Better... (Category: Europe)

Mutual Fund Chairmen redux (June 30, 2005)

The Financial Times has this advice for the SEC: Mr Cox should consider what the US can learn from international... (Category: Securities)

ICANN: Keeping it in the Family (June 30, 2005)

Over at Discourse.net there's a post about the US Department of Commerce announcing that it had decided to keep control... (Category: Globalization/Trade)

Form, substance and legal certainty (June 30, 2005)

Usually when I teach business associations I have a class full of formalists (or at least the most vocal students... (Category: Finance)

Independent Chairmen of Mutual Funds (June 29, 2005)

So the SEC voted to reinstate the independent chairman rule. This is the rule the DC Circuit remanded for consideration... (Category: Securities)

Coerced Tenders (June 29, 2005)

The National Federation of Municipal Analysts is concerned about what it perceives to be an increasingly frequent occurrence of bond... (Category: Securities)

Corporate Manslaughter in the UK (June 28, 2005)

CMS Cameron McKenna just published the results of its survey of views on the UK Government's proposed legislation on corporate... (Category: Crime and Criminal Law)

Fair and Orderly Markets (June 28, 2005)

The story of Citigroup's trades in European Government bonds last summer seems to have wound up as the Financial Services... (Category: Securities)

Scented Bowling Balls? (June 27, 2005)

As I was driving to pick up my sons from their half-day basketball camp I heard an item on NPR... (Category: Rants)