National ethics and compliance experts to convene at the Unive...

AdNews has teamed with NGen to help its members (those with less than five years experience in the industry) to have their voices heard. Each week a new member of the NGen committee will give their perspective on the latest industry news. The ...

Related Items Last November, the U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission released their on the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Chapter 5 discussed compliance extensively and focused on a risk-based approach. The ...

Stephen Colbert recently parodied TV hosts by telling his expert guest from Yale University, "We'll eventually get back to you talking too," exposing a fundamental flaw in American media: when TV hosts interview experts, the hosts do all the ...

In hindsight, everyone saw the financial crisis coming. The crazy lending, the high leverage, the soaring home prices. It all made so much sense. In reality, few did. Some saw troubles, or imbalances. But very, very few truly foresaw the magnitude ...

Last week, I wrote about how equally smart people can cherry-pick their own data and metrics to prove whatever point they want to make, even exact opposite ones. I found another example this morning. A few weeks ago I spoke with investor Chris ...

The industry of technology startups is all about prediction- we try to predict what will be a good market, what will be a good product, as we iterate and pivot on our predictions. One of my favorite reads this year was Nate Silver's The Signal and ...

It's time to come clean: We don't actually have a secret source in Davos, Switzerland, and we aren't producing batches and batches of Market Goggles. Yesterday, April 1, was The Motley Fool's de facto annual holiday, and our special report, "The ...

Listen to Jim Cramer or his cohorts on CNBC and youll hear statements like, Don't settle for the mediocre returns of a market index! and It's not that hard for investors to pick stocks that will beat the market! Unless you possess the skills of ...

Jemal Countess / 2009 WireImage Paul Krugman (with Arianna Huffington and Elizabeth Warren) at the TIME 100 gala in 2009. Of a survey of 58 pundits, Krugman's predictions proved the most accurate. Everyone loves to make predictions and almost ...