Media Lessons 2022: Part II
Below, part two of what I learned about the financial media in 2022. Part one is here. The context is this: in 2022, I sent 952 queries to the financial media. Some worked, some didn’t. The point is, when you send out 952 pitches to the media, you learn things, some of which are encapsulated below.
Media Lessons 2022: Part I
In 2022, I sent 952 queries to the financial media. Some were highly focused and some were broad based. Some worked, some didn’t. The point is, when you send out 952 pitches to the media, you learn things. Here’s what I learned about the financial media in 2022. The phone is working again. Reporters started to come
Green Shoots In Green Equity Designations
Just over 18 months ago, Nasdaq introduced its green equity designations for its Nordic stock markets. The designations were a set of operational and reporting standards, that if met, would confer a so-called Nasdaq Green Equity designation. This in turn would, could or should carry weight with investors, institutional and retail, who, in light of
The Most Useless Time In America
What To Do Instead of Watching The Super Bowl Halftime Show Introduction The most useless, wasted time in America is the 30 minutes which constitute the Super Bowl halftime ‘extravaganza.’ Kid Rock wearing the American flag like a poncho . . . rapper M.I.A. giving the finger wearing, of course, Egyptian head dress and fishnet
The Book of Business
David R. Evanson Forward: I wrote this book for students of business, and maybe students of human nature too. I say students because, for better or for worse, the people covered in these few short stories, all of them clients, taught me a lot of what I learned on both topics. It’s a gallery of
2020: It Was A Very Good Year?
That’s a sentence you don’t see too often. However, if you like dividends, it was with the 500 largest public companies in the U.S. paying nearly $500 billion to their shareholders. Any way you measure it, $500 billion is a big number. Net of the defense budget ($616 billion), the dividends paid by the
Media Exposure By The Numbers
Since November 2010, I’ve sent out 12,471 queries to the media. I know this because the software platform I use keeps track of them. That’s about 5 a day for a decade. The learning comes not so much from what I’ve sent out, but rather from what comes back. Based on the responses I get,
Why The Tax Cut Bonuses Ring False
Every once in a while, when a baseball player hits one out of the park at an away game, the fan who catches the ball throws it back on the field. Why celebrate the opponent’s achievement? As rebukes go, it’s not subtle. Sometimes I wonder if the rank and file employees who got $1,000 “tax cut”
The Feminine Touch, Hopefully
Jane Fraser was selected to be the next CEO of Citigroup, the first woman to run a “money center” bank. One can only hope that she will best the performance of her predecessors. Aside from a decade of irrational exuberance in the price of Citigroup shares (see graph below) any time frame in which one