• Insurance Companies Win Major Katrina Ruling

    Back in June, I reported that homeowners who lost homes in Katrina were waiting for a major ruling in their case against insurance companies. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. had ruled in November that the insurance polices were ambiguous […]

  • Gross margin? Profit margin? What are those, says Overstock.com.

    To hell with profits. Overstock wants to send newsletters.

  • Fooled by Google Adsense?

    On my other site I have Google ads. It’s a nifty way to recover some of the costs of running the site. It wasn’t until recently that I started to use the “channels” feature. Basically you can set up different […]

  • Motley Fool on Usana

    The Motely Fool recently published a bit on Usana Health Sciences and the ongoing SEC investigation that was started based upon the investigation done by Barry Minkow and Fraud Discovery Institute. I have a few comments on some of the […]

  • “Kid Nation” controversy

    I openly admit to being a reality television fan. My favorites are Survivor and Amazing Race, but just about any reality show will do. So when I saw commercials for this new show called “Kid Nation,” I was intrigued. 40 […]

  • The “I Forgot I Already Voted Today” Defense Fails

    A Milwaukee county man was convicted yesterday of voting twice in a November’s election. Michael Zore voted twice within 6 hours, once in Wauwatosa (where he lives) and once in West Allis (where he used a fake address). Zore told […]

  • Jessica McBride Calls Out Eugene Kane for Ignoring the Truth

    On Sunday, Jessica McBride had a great post on Eugene Kane, and his failure to accept the truth when it’s coming the sources. Eugene Kane is a liberal columnist for the Journal Sentinel, who is always moaning about the injustice […]

  • Mannatech CEO Quits to Devote More Time to Mannatech

    Okay, I admit it. That headline comes straight from Zac Bissonette at Bloggingstocks. I couldn’t help it though. It’s just so…. so…. right. In July, the Texas Attorney General filed suit against Mannatech to stop the company from using illegal […]

  • Earnings management at Overstock.com?

    Sam Antar at White Collar Fraud Blog has posted the second part of his analysis of Overstock.com’s second quarter numbers, and it ain’t pretty! Looks like Byrne and company are doing even more fancy math! Yoo-hoo… SEC… are you listening? […]

  • Usana’s retail sales

    One of the criticisms leveled against Usana Health Sciences in Fraud Discovery Institute’s original report on the company is the lack of retail sales. Usana acknowledges the importance of retail sales in its 2005 10-k, on page 16 (bold added […]