Letter: Editor’s column was insulting to Conejo Valley
Letters to the Editor, Opinion[EDITOR’S NOTE: The following was written in response to Editor Henry Dubroff’s April 19 column headlined “KPMG scandal gives the Conejo Valley’s elite a rude wakeup call.”] Dear Editor: My apologies for whomever it was from the Conejo Valley that slighted or disrespected you at some point. Was it really necessary for the sake of Read More →
Op/ed: KPMG scandal damages reputation of the accounting profession
Op/Eds, OpinionWhat possesses an audit partner to trade on inside information and violate the accounting profession’s most sacred ethical standard of audit independence? Is it carelessness, greed or ethical blindness?
Op/ed: How to avoid following the herd, and still be heard, as an investor
Op/Eds, OpinionBy Juan C. Ros on April 26, 2013 Here’s a short quiz: When the stock market is going up, do you: (1) get excited and want to keep riding the upswing to maximize profits, or (2) sell stocks to take money off the table? Similarly, when the stock market is in a freefall, do you Read More →
Op/ed: Lessons learned in taking responsibility, guessing wrong and doing better than your best
Op/Eds, OpinionOver the course of this journey, I have, inevitably, learned a few lessons.
Letter: Local governments should be commended for efforts to mitigate fracking threats
Letters to the Editor, OpinionDear Editor: The opening sentences in the Business Times’ March 1 editorial on the oil recovery technique known as hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” (“Let California set the stage on fracking rules”) would be more appropriately posed as questions: Fracking here? Fracking there? Fracking everywhere? In California, no one but the oil industry knows the answers Read More →
Op/ed: California’s fast-growing job creator — Latino businesses
Op/Eds, OpinionGenerations of Latinos have come to California for the same reasons that generations of whites, blacks and Asians have come here — for the chance to pursue what we now call the American Dream.
Op/ed: California banks are committed to supporting the credit needs of Golden State businesses
Op/Eds, OpinionBy Rodney Brown on March 8, 2013 It has been more than four years since the onset of the Great Recession, and during the past few years our country and the state of California have been slowly progressing down the road to economic recovery. As the economy continues to improve and confidence rises, California banks Read More →
