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7 Jun 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
I’m pro-democracy, and I don’t want to be on the wrong side of history,” is inspiring, to be sure, but to expect it is beyond naïve. [read post]
31 May 2023, 9:47 am by Zach Brown
President Donald Trump’s team didn’t even propose a rule – hardly a surprise. [read post]
17 May 2023, 9:02 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Politico also quotes McConnell thus: “I don’t think it’s very complicated. [read post]
14 May 2023, 9:00 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
We would be delighted if the debt ceiling truly were a mere paper tiger that could be easily shredded by stamping “$3 trillion” on a piece of platinum or issuing bonds with a face value of one dollar but sold for a hundred dollars each because they offer 40,100 percent in interest (which is the rate Treasury would need to offer to reproduce the payback on a conventional 3-month hundred-dollar T-bill that pays the roughly 5 percent current interest rate). [read post]
12 May 2023, 3:35 am by Liz Dunshee
Here’s something that Meredith blogged yesterday on DealLawyers.com: Michael Levin recently shared another UPC development – the second activist success story: An individual investor, Daniel Mangless, owns 2.3% of Zevra Therapeutics (ZVRA), since 2019. [read post]
8 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
The debt ceiling statute is a bad idea, but it was not sloppily drafted.In its current form, the debt ceiling statute (31 USC § 3101: Public debt limit) in subsection (b) puts an aggregate limit on “[t]he face amount of obligations issued under this chapter and the face amount of obligations whose principal and interest are guaranteed by the United States Government. [read post]
1 May 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
These insults echo one pro-Coin writer’s assertion early this year that “a lot of dull-witted pundits are going to say [that you] can’t just mint a magic coin, it’s a total gimmick, this is crazy talk. [read post]
16 Apr 2023, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan and Michael C. Dorf
”  We can imagine a devotee of the platinum-coin option responding: “Well, you’re parsing the language a bit close, aren’t you? [read post]
10 Apr 2023, 12:54 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Among others, the Bloomberg columnist Matt Levine, in an article provocatively entitled, “Everything Everywhere is Securities Fraud” (here) also weighed in on the event-driven litigation trend. [read post]
29 Mar 2023, 6:41 am by Gretchen Knaut
Trump seeking comment, his attorney Michael Cohen threatened to sue. [read post]
17 Feb 2023, 9:30 pm by ernst
History shows it won’t change anytime soon. [read post]
1 Feb 2023, 9:01 pm by renholding
Many would say, in fact, that large private issuers are backed by the most sophisticated investors in the world and don’t need the SEC to impose disclosure or corporate governance protections. [read post]
25 Jan 2023, 3:15 am by John Jenkins
Well, Michael Levin at The Activist Investor recently flagged a new article from Prof. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
He said the country can’t survive half-slave or half-free. [read post]
9 Nov 2022, 3:30 am by Liz Dunshee
Michael Levin at The Activist Investor shared this analysis of the provisions from an activist’s perspective – along with other examples that may go too far, such as requiring activist-appointed directors to resign from the board if they violate a company policy. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 9:04 pm by Jeffrey Lubbers
Don’t talk to me of reform; things are bad enough as they are! [read post]