A Guide to Facebook Etiquette

Mr. Manners here. There’s a right way to post on Facebook and a wrong way. I’m here to spell them out. Not! Nobody has a monopoly on the PC way to use Facebook. Everybody has an opinion. And everybody has the right to say whatever the hell he or she wants to say....

The Art of Badmouthing the Competition

The big banks' wealth management units had a terrific year in 2013. Money in fee accounts ballooned as the S&P 500 rose nearly 30%. Profits ballooned, too. It was all over the news this month as earnings reports came out, and that transparency is a good thing....

Harvard Cold Case Reopened

Update: I’m getting trickles of information everywhere: email, dm, tweets, etc. Please “like” my Facebook page to join in/follow. I’ll try to direct all conversation there. Forget the long lines at the malls. I hope the expression “Black...

Top Ten Reasons Facebook May Not Be Worth $50 Billion

1. Lemming portfolio theory. The consensus is always wrong. Facebook is a media love orgy right now. 2. Private valuations are opinion, not science. A few years ago the Winklevoss twins used Microsoft’s $15 billion valuation to settle their lawsuit. Meanwhile,...

Wiki-Valuations: The Inside Skinny on $50 BN for Facebook

Leave it to the Internet. Goldman Sachs just awarded a $50 billion valuation to Facebook. And in a shrewd branding maneuver, the storied financial behemoth is offering its high-net-worth clients the option to co-invest in the world’s leading social media site....