Ockham Research submits:
As sports fans are by now aware, Tiger Woods announced this morning that he will make his return to golf at The Masters in Augusta, Georgia. This has been the topic of much speculation in the sports world…
One sick fuck.
“To put it in the crudest possible way, these firms have to be smaller and less profitable,” Lewis told Reuters. “If they were regulated properly and the rules of their game were sane, it would be less profitable to…
skepticllc submits:
I received several comments and emails on my Earthlink (ELNK) analysis that questioned whether I was being too harsh on the assumed run-off rate. Basically, the point was that I was using a constant percentage reduction while in reality…
One year ago, on 60 Minutes, Ben Bernanke uttered that now famous phrase.
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For those interested, here is the text of the proposed bill.
It is only 1,336 pages long …
Some overviews:
From Sewell Chan at the NY Times:
Mr. Dodd said he believed there was substantial bipartisan agreement on 9 of the bill’s 11 provisions,…
Angry Bear Ken Houghton will be a panelist, and other participants in the conference include Mike Shedlock, Mark Thoma, Paul Romer, Alex Tabborak.
Economics Bloggers Forum
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Friday, March 19, 2010
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Before you turn it in, here’s a smattering of what you should be paying attention to right now:
Here’s one reason companies might want to work extra hard to disclose employment contracts sooner rather than later: Delays can raise more and thornier questions.
Consider Coventry Health Care Inc. (CVH), the $3.5 billion managed-care company based in Bethesda. It filed…
Calafia Beach Pundit submits:
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It was February ‘09 when I first highlighted the rise in the Baltic Dry Index as a "green shoot" that augured for a global recovery, and I remarked last May that the dramatic rise in…
Who wants a job? ‘Cause Lehman Brothers is ready to prove itself and just today filed a proposal with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Manhattan to ends its Chapter 11 and created an asset management biz called LAMCO. It’ll be great…