• 5 steps to driving your tax preparer crazy

    I wrote this one for WalletPop as tax season was wrapping up, but I liked it so much that I’m reprinting it here! The agony of doing taxes is just about over for another year. I have only five tax […]

  • The Pyramid Scheme Aspect of Primerica Financial Services

    I ran across a blog that did a series examining Primerica Financial Services, a multi-level marketing company that purports to sell financial products. While the company does offer life insurance, investments, and other financial products, like a typical MLM… they’re […]

  • Back at #1 in Auditing on Amazon.com

    As the Essentials of Corporate Fraud book tour rolls on, we’re back at #1 in the Auditing category on Amazon.com!

  • Video of Patrick Byrne discussing the Sith Lord’s fax machine at CNBC

    I couldn’t make up stuff this good if I tried. Seriously. The things that Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com (NASDAQ:OSTK) says are a journalist’s dream. (Yes, if Byrne can think of himself as a journalist, so can I!) I reported […]

  • I came across my name on Amazon.com

    This afternoon I was cruising Amazon.com, and found my name in the acknowledgments of a book. I HAD NO IDEA! It is so touching to be thanked in this way, by someone who is both a business associate and a […]

  • Herbalife President: Well it’s ALMOST True….

    Another top executive is caught lying about his credentials, but we’re supposed to think it’s no big deal. First it was Usana Health Sciences (NASDAQ:USNA) board member Denis Waitley lying about his college degrees. Then it was Usana CFO Gil […]

  • Gradient Analytics Looks Forward to Proving Overstock Wrong

    Case Essential To Protecting Analysts From Issuer Retaliation SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gradient Analytics, Inc. said today that a California state court has ruled that discovery may proceed in the Overstock.com vs. Gradient, et al. litigation. Discovery had been stayed for several […]

  • What’s your favorite Overstock.com lie?

    Sam Antar and I have weighed in with our opinions on the lie machine known as Overstock.com, run by the country’s most incompetent CEO, Patrick Byrne. This week has been a treasure trove of new lies and manipulations, as Overstock […]

  • GAAP Being Replaced By BOSS

    It’s official. The Sith Lord and I have concluded our meeting, and public companies in the United States will no longer be required to follow GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). Instead, they will immediately begin following BOSS (Because Overstock Said […]

  • Women upset over cancelled flight they didn’t have tickets for

    I am soooooo not kidding about this. I just saw this on the news. 24 women are upset at Midwest Airlines, which recently canceled/changed a number of flights due to some cost-cutting measures. They’re upset because they were going to […]