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PostPosted: Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:15 am    Post subject: REFORM Reply with quote

We all knew it was coming:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-treasury29mar29,0,5300410.story

Remains to be seen if this is for "the general good."
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Credit agencies to go back from where they came:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7BBEDC7E6C%2D11C3%2D4B80%2DABBE%2D3A32DF34230F%7D&siteid=rss
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The G-20 says it's all about Doha....which it could be:


http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aI66qmU1GDXk&refer=home

Looking to move power to this greater group who has proven it can make no coordinated decisions. The same call is made by China--while instructing other economies to get their "house in order." That said, the framework for Doha is already in place--an achievement here would really be something.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Banks new "ethics":

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-goldman11-2008nov11,0,1943014.story

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Goldman, Sachs & Co. urged some of its big clients to place investment bets against California bonds this year despite having collected millions of dollars in fees to help the state sell some of those same bonds.

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 12:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

"The Summit":

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/01/AR2008110102207.html
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here it is in all its glory: the executive decision needed to particpate is stymied by the paycut that executive might have to face.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/business/31plan.html?ref=business


A paycut for bankers, imgine that! Obviously the power of the "shareholder" in this day and age has taken on "mythical" proportions.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The "Bonus": should have been the first to go. Let 'em go "become CFOs or start hedge funds." The market could use 'em.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a07o5ltdIKLg
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"I think it is ironic that they need to be bailed out by the very same taxes that they didn't pay," said Reuven S. Avi-Yonah, director of the international tax program at the University of Michigan Law School.


http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/10/21/bailouts_spur_calls_to_end_tax_dodges/
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

"Equilibrium" restored and cemented. Tomorrow's bankers todays farmers?

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g6Vo0ESGrHF7l4w9JBtKYXhW8-TQD93SNH0O0


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"Probably no one at the time expected that almost 80 years later, very similar programs would still be on the books," said Scott Irwin, chair of agricultural marketing department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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PostPosted: Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Asia in the game:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8JgI0d_bu8Y&refer=home
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 18, 2008 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

World Summit to "save the free market":


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-econ19-2008oct19,0,7571234.story
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Arthur Levitt, son of The Arthru Levitt and grand government interventionism talks of the garden of new ideology blossoming before our upturned eyes:

http://media.bloomberg.com/bb/avfile/Economics/On_Economy/vvOwR1DmDBsI.mp3
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 12:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Year, TRUST, in Review:


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a09f751e-6187-11dd-af94-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=13e90304-4dc0-11dd-820e-000077b07658.html
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 7:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The personification of free-market convert:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-fi-paulson25-2008jul25,0,1372981,full.story
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Leave it to the Germans to lead the charge. We must "slay the market monster":


http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/32af234c-2217-11dd-a50a-000077b07658.html
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paulson wants Washington to a stamp on it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/18/AR2008061803225.html
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