Articles written by Howard Bryan Bonham

British Petroleum or officially BP likes to color itself as the clean green energy company, but on April 20, 2010, the big UK company was anything but that.

Apr 20, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The brouhaha in Congress in spring 2011 over reducing the current federal budget was intense, nearly closing the government, but was merely a skirmish.

Apr 15, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

As in every springtime since 1876, baseball umpires shouted "Playball!" in late March and early April and launched the 2011 season. It was early this year.

Apr 6, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

An executive preview of long-term energy projections in the US by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) anticipates both welcome and unwelcome events.

Mar 18, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

A political conundrum and political irony making the rounds inside the Washington DC Beltway has savvy political movers and shakers on K Street mystified.

Mar 5, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The relentless Digital Age has blown up a tempest of financial information that whirls about investors night and day.

Feb 24, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Yogi Berra, the oft-quoted Hall of Fame ex-baseball catcher for the New York Yankees, famously said, "This is like déjà vu all over again."

Feb 9, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

On December 15 Time magazine named Mark Zuckerberg - the wunderkind 26-year old founder of the social network Facebook - as its Person of the Year for 2010.

Jan 29, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Historians of World War II are in general agreement that Hitler's Germany was far ahead of America and her Allies, in the development of advanced weaponry.

Jan 5, 2011 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In the US midterm elections of 2010 - really, more a stampede of angry bull elephants - Bill Thomas was a candidate for the US House of Representatives.

Dec 17, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

On Sunday December 7, 1941, in the early morning, US sailors and soldiers at the Pearl Harbor naval base in the US territory of Hawaii awoke to a nightmare.

Dec 8, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The historic city is the scenic capital of Maryland, enlivening the shores around the broad estuary where the Severn River flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

Dec 2, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

On Nov. 18, 2010, nearly 18 months after filing bankruptcy, business icon General Motors arose from the ashes and traded again on the NYSE for $33 a share.

Nov 23, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The current balance sheet for US Households is certainly not an early Christmas greeting card, but it's not a stocking full of ashes from the Grinch either.

Nov 10, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

It is a winter of discontent for American voters. They are angry at incumbent politicians, especially those toeing the party line like lemmings in lockstep.

Nov 1, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

For only the second time since the law was changed in 1975, Social Security benefits will not be raised in 2010 in an automatic adjustment for inflation.

Oct 26, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Investors are no doubt delighted with recent events in the stock market, but surely many are baffled by the sensational run-up of stock quotes in September.

Oct 7, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

When going into a gallery seeking new works by a favorite artist, a collector is likely looking for paintings or sculptures done with traditional materials.

Sep 30, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) proclaimed on September 20 that the contraction or recession stage of the current business cycle has ended.

Sep 23, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In the phantasmagoria of ciphers, symbols and stop-go signs that is the global digital stock market, Alan Abelson's columns are entertaining shafts of light

Sep 9, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

English has become the second language of the world, a status that is incontrovertible. Meanwhile, its new business shorthand Globish is on a faster track.

Aug 28, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Business or economic cycles are as American as "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet."

Jul 30, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Global investing is expanding rapidly, so much so that the five top performers on US exchanges headquarter in a foreign country. However, all is not well.

Jul 12, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In today's chaotic stock market, investors are shell-shocked; forced to react to continuous snippets of good and bad news, concerning an economic recovery.

Jul 3, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Sixty-three days ago, British Petroleum's contract drilling rig on its Macondo well in the deep Gulf of Mexico, exploded in a ball of fire, burned and sank.

Jun 23, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The wrath of people having personal ties to the Gulf of Mexico, within range of BP's polluting oil spill, has blown in like the season's first hurricane.

Jun 8, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

BP settlement costs for its rogue oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could reach $47 billion or $15.20 per share. Even for fourth largest oil firm, that's huge.

Jun 3, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced that British Petroleum has plugged the crude oil flow from its blown-out Macando oil well, in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

May 29, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

BP's stock sell-off is double its peer group's, which can be viewed as an advance estimate of its financial liability for the Gulf of Mexico oil pollution.

May 24, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

After 500 years of rivalry, capitalism has emerged as the world's most popular economic system. But can Adam Smith's grand idea survive so much tweaking?

May 14, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

One of the most succinct and refreshing explanations to date of what caused the financial calamity of 2007-2008 in the US comes from Nicole Gelinas, CFA.

May 5, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

An 11-hour dust-up between members of the US Senate Subcommittee on Investigations and seven executives of the Goldman Sachs mega-bank took place April 27.

May 1, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The run-up of 54% in the US stock market in the 12 months through March 2010 surprised many investors, still spooked by the banking crises and recession.

Apr 15, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Dan Brown's newest novel, "The Lost Symbol," follows the blueprint of some of his other best-sellers, up to the point of raising an alarm about the powerful Masons.

Apr 6, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Investment professionals consider stock market volatility one of the risks they must embrace as a prerequisite of doing business in the stock market.

Mar 29, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

One of the great challenges in achieving an optimum retirement is getting a handle on the volatility of stock market returns, for timing is everything in a happy ending.

Mar 29, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In 2010 so far, five diverse stocks are the best performers. However, they are alike in one big respect - each should grow earnings by 10% or more for five years.

Mar 19, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Many of the 76 million Baby Boomers - Americans born between 1946 and 1964 - are likely facing lifestyle changes when they start retiring in the decade's final years.

Mar 8, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

A new assessment of prospects for resuming growth in global capital markets in 2010 and beyond, by Mckinsey Global Institute, presents a sobering read for investors.

Feb 17, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

The world is a big, scary, and increasingly unstable place says author John Rubino, in "Swimming with Sharks," appearing in the January/February CFA Institute Magazine.

Jan 22, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In "Bless the U.S. Dollar" in Esquire magazine of December 2009, columnist Ken Kurson writes the US dollar cannot survive the debt the federal government is piling up.

Jan 16, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

In 1905 British philosopher and mathematician, Karl Pearson, mentioned a "random walk," in a paper about how stock prices fluctuate - the first volley of a 100-year war.

Jan 8, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

When the Chinese New Year begins on February 14 and the gaiety of China's Spring Festival commences, can the exotic White Tiger of the 2010 New Year keep the rally going?

Jan 2, 2010 - Howard Bryan Bonham

Brickbats flung back and forth between Republicans and Democrats over the merits of the controversial $700 billion "Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)" are rampant.

Dec 22, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

If George Washington was the father of his country, Thomas Jefferson was its godfather. He envisioned a federation of democratic states, while many saw physical barriers.

Dec 10, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

As efforts percolate in Congress to water down much of the Investor Protection Act of 2002, a new investors handbook could become an investors Bill of Rights.

Dec 4, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

A recent survey by business consultants McKinsey & Co. suggests corporate managements should come up with new game plans, based on the lingering crises in global finance.

Nov 18, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

A business plan is a blueprint for raising money, using text, tables and graphics as drafting tools. It helps to finance a start-up company or expand a going concern.

Nov 9, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

With the launch of Windows 7 operating system in October, Microsoft Corp. hopes to recoup goodwill lost during two winters of customer discontent with the flawed Vista.

Oct 30, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham

A business cycle is much like the weather. It can be a brief squally interlude, followed by sunshine; or, it can be a long winter storm, followed by cold gradual thaw.

Oct 12, 2009 - Howard Bryan Bonham