Basic security analysis of these companies would have given investors the information they needed to recognize the fraudulent
behavior of a few companies and the gross overvaluation of some stocks.
Not exact matches
When
companies create ridiculous and demoralizing rules to halt the outlandish
behavior of a
few individuals, it's a management problem.
Companies today are attempting to make themselves relevant to buyers who are radically evolving their buying
behaviors and have more buying choices than they ever dreamed
of in just a
few short years.
An executive is one
of the
few people in a position to challenge ingrained
company behavior.
On Friday afternoon, just a
few hours after the DOJ and 33 state attorneys general proposed a series
of remedies for Apple's anticompetitive
behavior over e-book pricing, the
company struck back with some proposals
of its own.
Buying or selling a
few shares
of stock has little influence on a
company's
behaviors.
After all, there are many payday loan
companies out there with bad reputations, and for good reasons: exorbitant interest upwards
of 700 % APR, hidden fees, confusing terms, poor customer service, misleading advertising, and overly aggressive collections practices, are a
few examples
of the kinds
of bad
behavior Operation Chokepoint is trying to eliminate.
As I wrote at Green Inc. a
few weeks ago, carbon markets still are in their infancy and have been strongly criticized for failing to push up the price
of polluting to levels where
companies and citizens responsible for most
of the planet's harmful emissions actually change their
behavior.