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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Here's your chance to pick up the perfect gift for that special scam artist on your holiday shopping list this year. Bernard Madoff's New York Mets jacket,...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bernard Madoff's watches, his personalized Mets jacket and Post-it notes will go on the auction block in a government-run garage sale to raise money for victims of his Ponzi scheme.
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HACIA UN UEVO MUNDO (Free subscription) | yesterday
El director general de Google afirma que aún es un problema sin solución. Las noticias saltan más rápido en Twitter que en prácticamente cualquier otro sitio, y Google quiere alcanzar esa misma velocidad. El reciente acuerdo del gigante de las búsquedas para incluir las actualizaciones de Twitter entre sus resultados de búsqueda es una parte esencial...
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Yorokobu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eric Schmidt lo lleva diciendo mucho tiempo. Para el CEO de Google, el futuro pasa por el móvil. Y tanto lo cree así esta compañía que ha comprado AdMob, una empresa especializada en publicidad display para móviles. Google ha pagado 750 millones de dólares (500 millones de euros) para hacerse con la compañía que desde sus [...]
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Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday
"All I want to do is dance." It wasn't just the humiliation of being the second-largest recipient of TARP funds, the discomfort that came with being dogged by questions about bonuses given to Merrill Lynch, or that the combination of the above meant he was slowly losing his grip on the position he had held as Bank of America's chairman and CEO that prompted Ken Lewis to throw up his hands...
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | yesterday
From my perspective, deciding whether to tighten or ease is easy. It involves asking and answering a few questions: Q: What is the current forecast for unemployment? A: It is that unemployment will stay around 10% for a year or more, and then slowly decline. Q: Is that the path that we want unemployment to be on? A: No. We wish that unemployment would fall more rapidly. Q: What should we do to make...
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NOTICIAS Y ACTUALIDAD (Free subscription) | yesterday
REFORMA San Francisco, Estados Unidos (9 noviembre 2009).- Google acordó comprar la firma de avisos de publicidad para móviles AdMob por 750 millones de dólares, con lo que dio un nuevo paso en el explosivo mercado de teléfonos con capacidad para navegar por internet. El acuerdo de compra en acciones cerrado por Google, que está ganando participación con su...
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Cassandra Does Tokyo (Free subscription) | yesterday
Salacious lies!! Goldman Sachs Press officers and executives had quite a day defusing all the fallout from CEO Lloyd Blankfein's so-called "own goal" (shooting himself in the foot for our American readers) by suggesting the $20 billion GS bonus pool is kosher because GS is doing ...ahem...."God's Work". Some of their 'official' statements are collected below: "GS will not ask...
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DealBreaker (Free subscription) | yesterday
By now you've likely heard the news : you can no longer say that Goldman Sachs is evil, because Lloyd Blankfein and Co. are merely doing the big guy's bidding. Actually, that's not true: you can call the Masters of the Universe sinners all you want but do so at your own peril, knowing full well that you're fucking with The BG. Take this latest profile from the Times Online . You can see God's hand...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's been a banner year for white collar crime. Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford, Marc Dreier, Raj Rajaratnam -- the names go on. With each case, investors or clients slapped their foreheads after the bust, wondering how warning signs were missed for so long. So, how to avoid the next Ponzi scheme or sketchy money making operation? Spare yourself the embarrassment -- and big financial losses -- by reading...
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felixsalmon.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
The WSJ has an interesting Ken Lewis profile today: If there was a bank executive who seemed to have the mettle to withstand today's regulatory and market pressures, it was Ken Lewis. The Mississippi native clawed to the top of Bank of America. After succeeding his mentor, Hugh McColl Jr., as chairman and CEO in 2001, Mr. Lewis kept up a blistering pace of acquisitions and tight control of operations...
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BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Management , Bank of America (BAC) The Bank of America ( BAC ) travesty of corporate governance continues to grow increasingly tragicomic. A quick recap: Bank of America's board of directors took way too long to kick CEO Ken Lewis to the curb and now it can't pick a successor because of infighting. Meanwhile, the board and the company's executives -- including those who are being considered...
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PEU Report (Free subscription) | yesterday
God's work is never done. If Jesus came back today, he'd need money changers in the Temple. He'd run across a universally hated tax collector, inviting him to dinner. He'd require a prisoner to visit in jail. Goldman Sachs cast of characters stands ready to fill these roles. Lloyd Blankfein -recipient of billions in taxpayer money through TARP & AIG, indirect tax collector Stephen Friedman - potential...
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Radon Mitigation Pittsburgh (Free subscription) | yesterday
( EMAILWIRE.COM , November 09, 2009 ) Point Roberts, WA - Chartpoppers.com announces an investment report featuring Financial company Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) Bank of America Corporation( NYSE:BAC), a financial holding company, provides a range of banking and nonbanking financial services and products in the United States and internationally. Its Global Consumer and Small Business Banking segment...
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trymi | 11/14/2008
General Motors does not mean to sell any of its brands apart from Hummer, company CEO Rick Wagoner has verified. Asked whether the company was going to scatter its brands, Wagoner informed Automotive News: “Our focus right now in this regard is exclusively on Hummer . We want to see how that plays out. We are getting some interest in it.” Wagoner also said that the GM has not had any offers coming