Evidence of defendants' lavish lifestyles is often used to provide a motive for fraud. Jurors sometimes wonder why an executive making tens of millions of dollars would cheat to make even more. Evidence of habitual gluttony helps provide the answer.

Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.

If only the human body could handle trauma as well as biotechnology stocks do.

For chat-room tyros who expect to make their first million day-trading by age 27, paging through the Sunday newspaper with a pair of scissors just to save a couple of cents on Cheetos seems so, well, old economy.

Never underestimate the power of Abby Joseph Cohen.

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business.

Even so, sometimes I wish I did have a little bit more flair in my language.