Opinion

Gensler, like Alan Greenspan at the Fed back in the day, isn’t usually given to free-ranging answers. He’s a cautious technocrat. Wednesday was different. He said cryptocurrencies, like bitcoin and ether, are unlikely to be […]

Wall Street isn’t much different. Fund, managers, stock pickers, traders, you name it, all have areas where they’re experts. A fund manager might specialize in a certain investment strategy, an analyst in a specific sector, […]

Auditing standards require at a minimum that auditors understand the entity and its environment, that it has the competency and independence to perform the audit, and that it can’t effectively staff the audit, among other […]

But there’s an old saying on Wall Street: the pessimists sound smart, but the optimists make money. The statement refers to the arguments made by both bull and bear investors. Because, quite often, the naysayers […]