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How is WalMart/Ford/Morgan Stanley doing?

What does it mean when we read or hear that a firm is financially fit, growing, or flush with earnings? The terms on the surface look simple enough.
Take a look at the following link to an article in the November 2, 2009 Business Week.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/09_44/b4153000349169.htm
Goodwill, accounts payable and accounts receivable are terms of art. A stroke [...]

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On Being Certain

A recommendation for reading Robert Burton’s “On Being Certain.”

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