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REUTEMAN: It's time to bow heads and hope

A layman's invocation on the eve of DNC week:

MILSTEAD: Crocs reveals liquidity issues

Rocky Mountain News Finance Editor David Milstead raises more questions about Crocs in this latest entry to his blog, "Material Disclosures."
MILSTEAD: Pension agency to shift money into riskier assets

United Airlines employees now count on the government, not their company, for their pensions. And the government has a new plan to make sure they, and other similarly afflicted workers, get paid.

REUTEMAN: Many eyes on severance tax; time to barter

For several years now, politicians of all stripes have been greedily eyeing severance taxes as the most likely way to fund solutions for many of Colorado's problems.

A hat tip to 'Papa Jack' Weil

We lost the oldest CEO in Colorado, and probably in the U.S., this week. Rockmount Ranch Wear founder Jack A. Weil died Wednesday at the age of 107.

PATON: Colorado official urges credit-card protections

Rico Munn, director of the state agency that regulates a wide variety of Colorado businesses, is the latest to sound off on credit-card company practices.

REUTEMAN: Sides poles apart over oil, gas taxes

You could fill a graveyard with the bones of contention between Gov. Bill Ritter and the group that formally opposes his ballot measure to increase the state's take of oil and gas severance taxes. Ritter's group, A Smarter Colorado, turned in 137,000 signatures Monday to get on the November ballot with an initiative that calls for eliminating a tax credit that allows energy companies to significantly cut their state severance tax. It would, if passed, raise about $320 million a year, mostly for college scholarships, but also for renewable energy and environmental efforts.

MILSTEAD: On second thought, ConocoPhillips' deal at Louisville is 'big'

I have been wrong before.The best example, still, is my June 2001 article "Is Joe Nacchio underpaid?" which I restated in August 2002.I will not take as long to publish second thoughts about another piece, "A big deal, I guess, but not that big," written the afternoon we learned about ConocoPhillips' new Louisville operation.

Chamber's high rating comes at a price

Talk of a recession, layoffs and tough economic times have not gotten the people at the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce down. In fact, as they noted in a press release this week, the chamber "is one of the best companies to work for in Colorado."

BOARDROOM SPORTS: Blackhawks' new owner revives club

Leadership gets plenty of lip service in sports (and business). Too often, however, the talk adds up to a tedious case of the blah-blah-blahs.

MILSTEAD: There's more than one way to calculate problem loans

If only there was a number, one number, that let us know what kind of problems a bank has.

REUTEMAN: Report says West suffering from fed apathy

The folks from the Brookings Institute were in town this week to unveil their new study on the intermountain West: "Mountain Megas."

PATON: Consumers flood Fed with credit card gripes

Randy Kotel is appalled by all the credit card offers his three teenage sons receive in the mail.

REUTEMAN: TransMontaigne founder Dietler excelled at building oil companies

Cort Dietler started up and sold more than 20 oil business companies before he died last week at age 86.

BOARDROOM SPORTS: Foreign funds could back teams

In the July issue of ColoradoBiz magazine, economist Tucker Hart Adams commented on the impact of recycled petrodollars- the money that OPEC countries return to the U.S. as a result of their oil sales to this country. Adams' comments, and the recent acquisition of Anheuser-Busch (a sports advertising behemoth) by InBev, got us thinking about the potential for foreign ownership of North America's professional sports franchises. Could oil money lubricate future acquisitions of our favorite teams?

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