Category Archives: News and Events

If there is one thing the Barometer knows is a certainty in this life it is that the human mind knows no limitations when it comes to figuring out ways to meet numbers goals without actually having to achieve the … Continue reading →

Since the time of the second crash of one of the company’s 737 MAX jetliners, Boeing has been defiant, slow-to-react, silent, and circuitous. Each passing day has brought new information, new testaments from pilots, and new revelations about the 737 … Continue reading →

The last time the SEC fined an audit firm $50 million was when Deloitte Touche settled with the agency for its audit work for Adelphia. Deloitte neither admitted or denied that its audit work, which meant that the world was … Continue reading →

The issue that has the FTC investigating Facebook is whether the company honored the terms of its 2012 consent decree on honoring the privacy rights of the site’s users. The FTC has requested, and Facebook has provided, thousands of e-mails … Continue reading →

The following quote of what attorney John Dowd (working for President Trump at the time) said to Robert Kelne, an attorney for Michael Flynn. The quote was used in the Mueller Special Counsel Report as an incident of potential obstruction … Continue reading →

Netflix and its miniseries have become the source to which we all turn for truth. Just because the filmmakers for Netflix are not the traditional Hollywood types does not mean that they do not use cinematic license. We tolerate cinematic … Continue reading →

Paul Grassley, 95, U.S. Veteran, who flew B-24 bombing runs over Germany. (as quoted in the New York Times). So many stories and quotes emerged from the D-Day memorials. These were men who understood that there was good and there … Continue reading →

Michael Comeau, on a field trip to Washington, DC with his students, took a little detour to Archibald’s Gentleman’s Club. There Principal Comeau, who left the high-schools lads back at the hotel with other chaperones, was arrested after police received … Continue reading →

Attorney John Dowd was part of President Trump’s team. He was vilified in the special counsel report (Mueller Report) with suggestions of obstruction because of this portion of a taped phone conversation between Mr. Dowd and Michael Flynn. I]f . … Continue reading →

Anyone can hop onto Wikipedia — the information site run by a nonprofit organization gets it information from users who post, correct, and footnote. However, North Face found a way, through a Brazilian ad agency, to gets its brand and … Continue reading →

Disney, NBCUniversal, and WarnerMedia announced that they either will no longer continue filming or be strongly affected in their decision process on filming in Georgia should that state carry out its highly restrictive abortion law. Economist Milton Friedman wrote about … Continue reading →

Uber permits banishment of passengers from the kingdom of ride-sharing. What gets passengers on the list of exiles? Leaving litter in the car. Rudeness. And asking the driver to exceed the speed limit. Manners and ethics — all you need … Continue reading →

From McKinsey’s 57-page handbook entitled, “Bankruptcy 101,” we have the following: “In representing a bankrupt company, we must avoid conflicts of interest and the appearance of conflicts of interest.” . . . Failure to adequately disclose material connections may result … Continue reading →

The Barometer’s grandmother, born 1890, always called it Decoration Day — the Monday in May when we traveled as a family to many cemeteries throughout Cambria County, Pennsylvania. We trimmed the grass, spiffed up the headstones, painted the Veterans’ stars … Continue reading →