Categories: Corporations

The Big Shift

Posted by: Michael Mandel on November 10

In recent months, I’ve repeatedly made the point that the financial crisis was a symptom, not a cause. Innovation was weaker than expected, private sector job growth outside of healthcare…

GM: The More Things Change…

Posted by: Michael Mandel on November 19

Looking back through old Businessweeks, I came on this cover story from November 1, 1993: GM: Can Jack Smith Fix It? The answer, I guess, was no….

Update on Capital Spending

Posted by: Michael Mandel on May 01

In a recent article, I reported that capital spending by U.S-based corporations was up 18.1% in the fourth quarter of 2006 (year over year), compared to the 8.9% increase in…

Global Capital Spending is Strong

Posted by: Michael Mandel on April 13

I did an article this week suggesting that the weak capital spending numbers in the U.S. are misleading, and that U.S based companies are actually spending very aggressively—just overseas. Take…

What We Don’t Know About Enron

Posted by: Michael Mandel on May 26

Even after the trial, we don’t really know what happened at Enron. Rebecca Smith of the WSJ writes: Indeed, more than four years after the Enron scandal began, it is…