Stocks represent trades that signify the future value of the present. The current price of a stock conveys insights about the company’s future. In essence, it involves the buying and selling of future potential. However, stock prices also reflect past performance. When a company announces its performance, it often includes disclosures about stock purchases and sales by major shareholders or executives. This practice has historical roots, but the public disclosure of such information now affects the stock’s current price. Time influences present value, whether it pertains to the past or the future. Ultimately, time is the most critical variable in asset valuation. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
The biggest crisis for CEOs is the financial crisis . However, symptoms precede this financial crisis; staff around the CEOs stop offering advice. If the staff believes that giving advice is futile and will only worsen the relationship, they will refrain from providing further advice. Nevertheless, most CEOs perceive their aides differently when they remain silent. The CEOs interpret the staff’s silence as a resolution to the conflict of interest . Ultimately, the staff’s silence inevitably precedes a financial crisis. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”