Accentuating the caveat emptor perspective with critical commentary on financial disclosure. I adopt a skeptical persona and look for chinks in the teflon coating of financial disclosure. My job is to identify financial warts. Perhaps a Black Swan. Disclosure: I do not hold positions in stocks mentioned for three trading days before or after blog post.
Thursday, October 06, 2005
Say what you mean? Mean what you say?
Corporate bafflespeak continues to reach new heights or lows depending on your point of view. The financial skeptic wants to hear about strange phrases and twists of the tongue used by corporate executives when they explain themselves. Also interested in what our regulators are saying and how they say it. Could they both be suffering from the same disfunctional communication challenge syndrome complex?