Archive for April, 2009:

Snatch and Release: Nine Costly Media Leaks

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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img.article { border:1px solid #cae3fa; padding:3px; background:#eef6f9; }   VIEW SLIDESHOW   Forget about piracy after the fact. These days studios publishers and record labels need to concern themselves with leaked intellectual property - everything from movies to books to ...Read More »

Ten Things I Wish I Had Done When I Was Twenty

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Trent }
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I’m thirty years old. Over the last ten years, my life has changed radically. I went from being a college student to being an office professional, then to being a writer. I went from being single to ...Read More »

Real GDP Declines Far More Than Predicted

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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This is a free preview of The Lavery Insight. For economic forecasts analysis and insight from Former Merrill Lynch Chief Economist Jack Lavery take a free two week trial.The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis advance estimate of first ...Read More »

Good economic news?

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by James Hamilton }
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Today's GDP numbers were about what I was expecting. Although economic activity continued its sharp decline, if we continue to follow the script, things should improve. Read More »

Office of the Chief Accountant Selects Four Professional Accounting Fellows

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by SEC.gov Updates: Press Releases }
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The Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of the Chief Accountant (OCA) has selected four professional accounting fellows for two-year terms beginning in 2009. Read More »

Banks Spurn Government Aid

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice shame on me.American banks are tired of playing the fool. Results from the so-called stress tests -- administered by regulators to determine the health of 19 key lending institutions -- are ...Read More »

Government to Banks: We Recommend Throwing Good Money After Bad

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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Every month it seems Washington dreams up new and fantastic ways to funnel taxpayer money towards a growing list of undeserving recipients. Now in the latest attempt to coerce banks into modifying delinquent mortgages en masse the Treasury Department ...Read More »

There IS Such a Thing as a Free Lunch

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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On March 12 a Chick-Fil-A in Morehead City North Carolina offered its first 100 customers a coupon good for one free value meal every week for the next year. The promotion inspired customers to camp outside the restaurant at ...Read More »

Common Stock Merely a Paper Deal

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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Minyan Peter How exactly does converting preferred stock to common increase capital? (If for example you're Bank of America (BAC) or Citigroup (C).)Seems to me its strictly a paper deal although it does reduce the higher dividend requirement. Thanks ...Read More »

The Return of Gordon Gekko

{ Posted on Apr 29 2009 by Minyanville }
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Sometime next year Gordon Gekko will be back. In this country greed is still good. A sequel to the 1987 film Wall Street -- once considered likely but then shelved -- has been given the green light to start ...Read More »
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