Caterpillar is going to shutter the London Electromotive Division plant. There go 500 well-paid industrial jobs, plus maybe 1000 support jobs elsewhere, just when we'd finally gotten the city's unemployment rate down to 9 ( Read more... )

"Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for attending the First Annual Shareholders' Meeting of FooCorp. We're going to keep things fairly informal here, so you can call me Steve in the Q&A session that will follow. As we're having a Q&A, I'd ask you to hold your questions for it so that we can get through this brief introductory ( Read more... )

The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives. Pity there's only seven; if there were more, we could make a bingo card or a book of maxims.

-- Steve thinks he probably should be checking out Forbes more often if this is their new standard of coverage.

I just read an item quoting the C.D. Howe Institute that Ottawa is understating the problem of underpaid pension obligations. Juxtaposed with it was an article on the Occupy movement's objections to excessive executive compensation ( Read more... )

Just a quick note before work really gets rolling; the Agenda's item on pension plans this week has me rolling my eyes vigorously enough that I'll probably never get astigmatism. The combined cost of wardrobe on this expert panel probably exceeded my pension contributions for this year, but pensions cost too much ( Read more... )