Several have asked me to repost this series from my prior blog on life today vs. the world 25-35 years ago, so here we go! So much was different back when I started practicing law. Lawyers and their secretaries (that's what we called them then)...
A pro-Nazi New Jersey man, Heath Campbell, thinks the state unfairly discriminated against him when they took his child away just 16 hours after being born and previously took away his three older children. This after he named another child Adolf Hitler Campbell. The news...
Caption: SEC Chair Mary Jo White The SEC today announced that it was suspending the trading in 61 Pink Sheet traded shell companies from today through June 14, 2013. This is the second batch of suspensions, having done the same for 379 shell companies last year....
According to the Pew Research Center, in a dramatic shift over the last 50+ years, an astounding 40% of American homes with kids are now led by a mother who is the sole or main breadwinner. This includes households led by both married and single...
As I talk about in my new book, The Entrepreneur's Growth Startup Handbook, there are nine key personality traits that I believe make it more likely that you can succeed in starting and successfully growing a business. One key one: being a macromanager. This is of course...
The ABA Journal reports about a precedent setting appeals court ruling. Michael Eric Hedlund still owed $85,000 in student loans although he graduated law school back in 1997. A bankruptcy court ruled that since he made a good faith effort to cut expenses and pay the bills, $53,000...
The who's who of the small and microcap finance world are gathering at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York today for the second annual Marcum LLP Microcap conference. I'm moderating a panel on corporate governance, dozens of exciting, growing companies are making presentations, and...
President Obama last week nominated two senior US Senate aides to replace one Democratic and one Republican commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. As we know, there are 5 commissioners, two from each party and then the fifth is a chair from the party...
StockNewsNow recently posted an interview I did a few months ago while attending the Roth conference in California. I talk about the JOBS Act, entrepreneurship, the SEC, my firm and more. You can check it out at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsfxUk6XU_U. Enjoy!...
The stock market shooting through records. Consumers watching their 401(k) accounts grow in value. Housing prices are rising. The gross domestic product is rising, slowly. I'm barely an armchair economist but it seems we are still missing some key elements to a substantial recovery, some...