Business Culture and Current Events Archive
Mega-Banks Increasing Market Share; The Economy Of Pull
The financial-overhaul bill that will be signed into law by President Barack Obama on Wednesday won't address one of the most far-reaching consequences of the recent crisis: Market power is concentrating in the hands of ...
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Buffett Receives Subpoena To Testify On Credit Rating Agencies Tomorrow
When Warren Buffett testifies before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Wednesday, it will be because he was subpoenaed. If you don't know how a subpoena works, this one begins with capital letters, "YOU ARE HEREBY ...
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Buffett Biographer Schroeder Rips Buffett, Annual Meeting
May 6, 2010 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Warren Buffett
Alice Schroeder, author of the recent biography The Snowball: Warren Buffett And The Business of Life (2008), harshly criticized Buffett and the annual meeting on two counts in a piece yesterday for Bloomberg: "Buffett Turns Into ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: Pilgrimage To Omaha
May 5, 2010 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, History, Stocks, Top Gun Financial Planning, Warren Buffett
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Barry Ritholtz Strongly Defends SEC’s Suit Against Goldman
Barry Ritholtz of The Big Picture has been out in force lately defending the SEC's case against Goldman. It started last Friday with this post: "10 Things You Don't Know (Or Were Misinformed) About The ...
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Top Gun FP Client Note: Blowout Earnings Overshadowed by SEC Suit Against Goldman
April 22, 2010 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Market Commentary, Politics, SEC, Stocks, Top Gun Financial Planning
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The Story Of Duane Reade
Andrew Ross Sorkin has a wonderful piece on the story of Duane Read, the Manhattan based drug store chain with 257 stores in the New York Area that was acquired by Walgreen's (WGN) last Wednesday, ...
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Peter Goodman Revisits Cape Coral, FL
January 5, 2010 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Culture and Current Events, Real Estate
We're not in a recession. We're in a depression.
- Bobby Mahan, a local real estate broker
Two years ago, Peter Goodman wrote an award winning piece on the real estate bust in Cape Coral, FL: "This ...
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WSJ Documents Crisis And Leviathan, 2009
December 29, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Government, Macro Economics, Politics
The frontier between the state and market has shifted. The realm of the state has been enlarged.
- Daniel Yergin, author of 1998's The Commanding Heights which chronicled the ascent of free market forces starting in ...
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WSJ Front Page: GE Pursues Pot Of Government Stimulus Gold
November 17, 2009 · Category: Business Culture and Current Events, Macro Economics, Politics, Stocks
The government has moved in next door, and it ain't leaving. You could fight it if you want, but soceity wants change. And government is not going away.
- Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric, in June ...
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