After nearly 34 years as a journalist, the entrepreneur deep inside has finally won and Herb Greenberg is leaving to start a research firm. Here is his farewell column.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- Thornton Oglove always has gone against the crowd.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- From the looks of its stock price, you would never know that Take-Two Interactive Software is at the center of multiple investigations, including an undisclosed number of grand-jury subpoenas from the district attorney of the County of New York, who is examining almost every aspect of the videogame company.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- In his speeches these days, one of Paul Kasriel's favorite examples of economic activity, or lack thereof, is the motorcycle.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- You would think that by now public companies that monkey with their numbers would get the hint: Suing critics almost always backfires.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- Now that Visa is off to a rousing start, we can't let the largest-ever IPO in the U.S. entirely off the hook.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- The good news for VeraSun Energy Corp., one of the country's largest ethanol producers: Its most recent quarter beat gloomy analyst estimates.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- From the "credit where credit is due" department: When the auction-rate-securities market went into its recent deep freeze, turning cash into what appears to be trash at many companies, Joe Morgan wasn't the least bit surprised.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- From the "nice work if you can get it" department: With the options Robert Meers got as chief executive of lululemon athletica, a Canadian yoga-apparel maker, there was little doubt that he would hit the jackpot.

SAN DIEGO (MarketWatch) -- Investors in Tempur-Pedic International Inc., the fast-growing bed company, haven't been having sweet dreams lately.