Richard Sylla
RECORD BREAKING MARKETS PLUS BITCOIN SIGNAL MARKET TOP, SAYS FINANCIAL HISTORIAN RICHARD SYLLA
On this week’s Consuelo Mack WEALTHTRACK: Revisiting one of the major themes of 2017: the building risks in the financial markets, with leading financial risk expert Richard Bookstaber. You can watch that episode again here. Continue Reading »SYLLA & TRENNERT: ELECTION INVESTMENT LESSONS AND STRATEGIES
The impact of the election. Lessons from the past and strategies for the future with noted financial historian Richard Sylla and leading investment strategist Jason Trennert.
SYLLA: CONCISE BIOGRAPHY
SYLLA: CONCISE BIOGRAPHY
If you want to learn more about Alexander Hamilton’s fascinating life and his invaluable contributions to the founding of America, there is now an alternative to wading through the 800 page best seller, “Hamilton” by Ron Chernow. WEALTHTRACK guest and noted financial historian, Richard Sylla has just written a much shorter and more accessible biography based on numerous illustrations from Hamilton’s era. I asked Sylla what led him to write Alexander Hamilton: The Illustrated Biography.
CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY?
It is winter fund raising season on public television which means that WEALTHTRACK might be pre-empted on your local television station.
We are revisiting an exclusive interview we had with the Fairholme Fund’s Bruce Berkowitz this fall. Berkowitz is a Great Investor who always generates a great deal of interest and controversy because of his deep value and extremely “concentrated” investment approach. This time was no exception! The week after the interview a Federal Court judge dismissed a lawsuit Fairholme and others had filed against the U.S. Treasury Department over its 2012 decision to take all of the profits generated by mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Fairholme has a big position in both. In a message to shareholders Berkowitz said we “strongly disagree with the court’s conclusions,…and will continue to pursue our legal rights”…including continuing another lawsuit to obtain “just compensation” for minority shareholders. Continue Reading »
SYLLA & STEIGER: CORPORATE MORALITY
How would you rate the overall state of moral values in this country today? That’s the question the Gallup organization asks Americans every year. This year’s answers were not atypical. Only 2% of Americans surveyed rated our moral values as excellent – 42% said they were poor – and 74% felt that values were getting worse, not better. How does this translate to the business world? We’ll discuss the state of corporate morality. Financial historian Richard Sylla and award-winning financial editor Paul Steiger discuss how companies have become fixated on short-term stock prices to the exclusion of broader, long-term goals. Continue Reading »
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