Category Archives: Analysis

It was a golf fan/television viewer who knew his rules and wrote in via a blog, “So I guess there were no LPGA officials on hand at the event to tell her she couldn’t do that?” The “that” was LPGA … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal published a letter to the editor from the Barometer on Monday, January 10, 2011.  The letter was in response to a December 31, 2010 op-ed piece on what boards need.  The letter was, of course, edited … Continue reading →

Facebook wanted to remain a privately held company and it was getting too close to the 500-shareholder limit.  Actually, it was over that size limit, but the SEC gave it an exemption in 2008 to allow the company to exclude … Continue reading →

For the first time in decades an airline has been kicked off a National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigation process.  The NTSB has bumped American Airlines for its breach of protocol in the investigation of its jet sliding 600 feet … Continue reading →

Not so fast, Mr. Bremmer.  In comparing China and the United States, your categories on statist vs. rule of law are correct.  However, the United States’ political philosophy has shifted.  The facts and logic point to the U.S. as the … Continue reading →

In celebration of the release of the 234 episodes of “Leave It to Beaver,” the New York Times highlighted one of the show’s strengths:  lessons in ethics.  The show, which ran from 1957 through 1963, was a charmer. Beaver Cleaver … Continue reading →

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has taken some sort of disciplinary action against 140 docs who cheated on their ABIM certification exams. In a lawsuit that the ABIM had filed previously against Arora Board Review, a company that … Continue reading →

By now all that can be said about umpire Jim Joyce and his bad call that cost Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga his perfect game has been said.  The Barometer knows little about baseball and even less about what constitutes … Continue reading →

The folks who post pictures of themselves hugging and chugging were outraged.  Why the things they were posting on their Facebook pages were showing up elsewhere on the web and were being used to generate advertising dollars.  Oh, what times … Continue reading →

Just as Joseph Jett of Kidder Peabody followed Nick Leeson of Barings Banks, another trader will follow Jérôme Kerviel of Société Générale.  There will always be rogue traders in banks that turn a blind eye to under-achievers who defy all … Continue reading →

Enron managed to fool most of the people for a long time with its SPEs.  If you thought we were done with these beasts following changes in the accounting rules, well, think again.  The report on Lehman tells us the company was … Continue reading →

He gets there on time. He plays. He hits. Derek Jeter broke Lou Gehrig’s record for hits in October 2009. The Barometer was reminded of this little-noted event because in the year of the Tiger and McGwire admissions there was … Continue reading →