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23 Aug 1:53 pm
... not want audited. Although the Fed gave hundreds-of-billions of money directly to Wall Street, the Fed has actually transfered trillions
(nine trillion, by conservative estimates) ... not run by chumps. Rather, it is run by men who want to transfer wealth from taxpayers to Wall
Street. An audit of the Fed would not doubt reveal even more unscrupulous ... almost tipped. Although the public has a short attention span, there are enough Wall Street scandals to keep that public's attention. We must act now ...
30 Oct, 2008 5:26 am
... billion that our leaders gave Wall Street to unfreeze credit markets? $108 billion of that is being held for employee bonuses. Really. Now,
not everyone on Wall Street caused the meltdown. It was a few high-placed executives (people like our current Treasury Secretary). Investment
banks employee a lot of staff and other "non-Wall Street" types. But those people, frankly, are lucky to still have jobs. A bonus is just that
- something extra that ...
13 Dec, 2008 4:52 pm
... were willing to provide a reorganization type bailout of the auto companies, which would have involved the same wages for Detroit auto workers as other auto workers in the nation.
But the union wouldn't accept it. This is not about protecting the country; it is about protecting privilege. The bailouts on Wall Street were
ugly, but at least they had the justification of arguably being necessary for the overall economy. And, in most cases, the responsible parties took a serious hit. Not here.
2 Apr, 2008 11:33 am
Unfortunately the "Enron = evil" memo is so ingrained in the collective unconscious that it will never bee removed. That said, at least some editors of the Wall Street Journal are realizing how ignorant and foolish their coverage of the Enron affair was.
24 Sep, 2008 3:15 am
/**/ Mike Spector wrote a short article in the Wall Street Journal today about What Happens to Your
Benefits After Bankrupcy. The article discusses the general differences between 401(k), defined benefit and cafeteria plans when the plan sponsor ... to be adequately funded and kept
separate from the company's business assets." pension protection act, ppa, wall street journal, retirement, bankruptcy, Mike Spector, ERISA Technorati Tags: pension protection act, ppa, wall street journal, retirement, ...
25 Jun, 2007 4:17 pm
New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg has changed his voter registration from Republican to Independent. This has started tongues wagging-like none
other than the righty Wall Street Journal-to speculate that the billionaire-mayor could mount an independent run for President in 2008. I don
... Mayor Giuliani would get my vote long before the now newly independent "man of the peole," Mayor Mike Bloomberg. Above: Mayor Bloomberg
delivers remarks and accepts award at Drum Major Institute for ...
11 Oct 6:29 pm
... watch this great guest simply point your browser to http://www.briancuban.com/cuban-live at noon(CT) on Tuesday! Mike Fisher is an
award-winning writer, author and TV and radio personality who has been honored by ... professional athletes readying to move into their business careers. Mike Fisher's efforts in journalism and communications have been featured in and/or endorsed in print by the Wall
Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, the Dallas Morning News, GQ, People, Avid Golfer, USA Today, Deadspin ...
13 Jun, 2006 5:23 am
... of Law James Coleman has shattered the Duke faculty's "blue wall of silence" regarding Mike
Nifong's myriad procedural improprieties. The former Democratic chief counsel ... Cooper hasn't urged Nifong to follow Coleman's advice-or what standards Governor Mike Easley used when he appointed Nifong as interim Durham D.A. Even had ... treated fairly by local authorities wasn't, apparently, a concern. Would this
"blue wall of silence" have occurred had the figures on the receiving end of Nifong's seemingly ...
1 Oct, 2008 8:13 pm
... we think Congress should do. So, after consulting with a number of people smarter than Phil Gramm, here is my proposal, now known as "Mike's Rescue Plan." It has 10 simple, straightforward points. They are: 1. APPOINT A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO CRIMINALLY INDICT ANYONE ON WALL STREET WHO KNOWINGLY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS COLLAPSE. Before any new money is expended, Congress must commit, by resolution, to criminally prosecute anyone
who had ...
14 Jun 12:44 am
... a 300# gorilla in the videos that follow this story. Place: Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens in Columbus What: A gorilla reportedly named Mike,
temporarily escaped from its cage and for approximately five minutes walked amongst the visiting public. The general public was asked to ... follows the AP report. COLUMBIA - A
390-pound gorilla grabbed some low-hanging bamboo Friday to scale a wall at Riverbanks Zoo and Gardens, escaping his enclosure and tackling a
worker before returning to his pen about five ...
15 Oct, 2008 12:29 pm
... There were two big developments in the federal preemption story today. First, the Wall Street Journal has an article today discussing the
Bush administration's efforts ... legislation," he said. "Using that and legal briefs, we proceeded." A video from the Wall Street Journal
discussing the problem is available here: Not to be outdone, the American Association ... Dave Mittleman and Devon Glass Cherry Hill, New Jersey lawyers Mike Ferrara and Camryn Hansen Des Moines, Iowa personal injury lawyer Steve ...
25 Sep, 2008 4:05 am
... /Mattel parties settle their long-running patent infringement lawsuit. Mediator Mike Young wonders about mediation confidentiality as both
Prosper and counsel talk about the potential ... writing and in person, not through counsel. Excerpts from the DJ article troubling Mike are
below. You can read the entire article only if you're ... back," Prosper said. Prosper declined to comment on the negotiations, but Larian told the Wall Street Journal last week that he was "open to all different options as long ...
8 Oct, 2008 8:41 am
... collateralized loans to the S&L's. This accounting ruling came from fierce lobbying by Wall Street, which wanted to broker the loans to
the S&L's. Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Wall Street extracted large fees from this program. Ultimately, most of the S&L's failed, with
losses borne by taxpayers. The Guarantor and ... were heavily influenced by the lobbying activities of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, and Wall Street
investment bankers. The secondary mortgage market lobby made large campaign ...
22 Jun, 2007 1:55 pm
"A Tale of Two Prosecutors: Mike Nifong is punished, but Patrick Fitzgerald isn't." Dorothy Rabinowitz has this op-ed (free access) today in
The Wall Street Journal.
28 Aug, 2007 4:30 pm
About a week ago, we posted here about how more and more lawyers' billing rates are breaking the $1,000/hour barrier. We also referenced a quote from Sun GC Mike Dillon in the Wall Street Journal article on billing rates as...
3 Jan, 2008 4:23 pm
From the other Townhall.com blog. Amanda Carpenter files this report from the ground in Iowa: At a hole-in-the wall Des Moines eatery,
Mike Huckabee's campaign chairman loudly bashed their top rival presidential...
16 Jan, 2007 7:55 am
A recent story about acronyms and abbreviations (sorry, it's behind the Journal's pay-wall, so I won't link to it) began: Do your MP3s get
tangled in your BVDs? Have you confused an ETF (Exchange-Traded ... -Treatment Facility)? Do you ever order a QPC (Quarter Pounder with Cheese) by mistake at KFC? If so, you might want
to check in with Mike Molloy, USAF, Ret. On the World Wide Web, he puts out an exponentially expanding dictionary consulted by bureaucrats,
translators, doctors, weapons designers ...
25 Jun, 2007 5:44 am
To my conservative friends in bloggerland who dispute the fact of global warming (despite even Gov. Mike Rounds and Pres. George W. Bush
recognizing the problem), here's all the proof you need: even the conservative, Rightwing, pro-business Wall Street Journal writes about the
issue as if it really exists. SCIENCE JOURNAL By ROBERT LEE HOTZ Can Scientists Counteract Global Warming? Scientists are proposing ways to ...
7 Jan, 2008 10:08 am
Are the early results in the presidential races showing an anti-Wall Street tinge? Consider what happened last week in Iowa, when
Mike Huckabee upset his Republican rival, Mitt Romney, in the caucuses. Mr. Romney is closely linked to high finance: He helped found the
private equity giant Bain Capital and has drawn lots of campaign contributions [...]
3 Nov, 2008 2:05 pm
In-house counsel at Lehman, Bear Stearns, AIG and many other companies have been directly impacted by the financial crisis. Career expert Mike
Evers of InsideCounsel has some thoughts and advice for these attorneys. Ideas for Wall Street's Inside Counsel (InsideCounsel) ** Find an
In-House Counsel Job @ InhouseBlog.com's Job Board. **
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