Why Great Ideas Fail

Miller Industries (MLR) Q1 2013 Earnings Call May 09, 2013 10:00 am ET Executives Matt Steinberg Jeffrey I. Badgley - Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Vincent Mish - Chief Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer, Executive Vice President, Treasurer and President of Financial Services Group William G. Miller - Founder and Chairman Analysts

By Kevin Quon:Innovation drives the advancement of society. Where would we be were it not for the ideas, discoveries, and inventions that have helped facilitate the very function of modern day life? In the same sense, the markets have always existed for the purpose of funding and developing companies that harness the spirit of innovation. For this reason patient investors can often partake in the success of bringing about new technologies into reality.

By Stocks & Shares:Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI) is familiar, heavily researched stock. Should contrarian investors focus their research on a small number of stocks like MSI from beaten industries?

Authored by Keith Fitz-Gerald, via The Burning Platform blog, On the surface, Abenomics – the radical unlimited stimulus plan put in place by newly elected Japanese PM Shinzo Abe – appears to be working. The Nikkei is up 68% since July, 2012, the yen has weakened by 26% over the same time frame, and Japanese consumer confidence is up sharply to the highest levels in six years.

Sweeping tax changes will also cut power of state-owned firm

By Drew Handy:Dividend investors are typically well aware of large-cap dividend payers such as Kraft (KFT) and Walgreen's (WAG), which offer relative stability.

Motorola Solutions (MSI) Q1 2011 Earnings Call April 28, 2011 8:00 am ET Executives Shep Dunlap - Edward Fitzpatrick - Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Mark Moon - SVP, Government and Commercial Markets, Motorola Gregory Brown - Chief Executive Officer, President, Director and Chairman of Executive Committee Analysts Peter Misek - Jefferies & Company, Inc.

I'VE just read Tyler Cowen's new book, "The Great Stagnation". You should too; it's available online (only), quite short, and just $4. The publishing model is fascinating in its own right and worth a post, but that will have to wait, as the material itself deserves priority. I don't agree entirely with all of that material, but I think it's safe to say that Mr Cowen's book is an important one that will have a profound impact on the way people think about the last thirty years.