The purpose of the blog is not to give financial advice to readers, but I can’t help commenting on a few things going on my experience tells me are signs of very difficult times ahead and the need to be cautious in all our financial dealings. These things include the depressed real estate market caused [...]

As I noted in an earlier post, last Thursday I gave the keynote address at the ESOP Association Conference in Las Vegas . More than 1,000 people were present. I talked about the subject Beyond the ESOP, using SAIC as an example. After my talk, I was asked a number of questions. Someone asked if [...]

Some interesting things have been happening over the past week. I’m pleased that the Carnegie Mellon University team won the DARPA Urban Challenge and the $2 million prize. The Urban Challenge was held on a 60-mile course at George Air Force Base using totally autonomous vehicles racing around an urban setting. The vehicles had to [...]