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Commentary & OpinionFebruary 8, 2013 Railroads: The Octopus & Captive Shippers Yesterday & Today
Source: Peter D. Kinder
Few books read once in adolescence made as permanent an impression on me as Frank Norris’s novel, The Octopus: A Story of California (1901). Wheat farmers squeezed into financial ruin by a railroad’s ability to extract monopoly...[more] February 8, 2013 In Actions, S.&P. Risked Andersen’s FateSource: Floyd Norris, NY TimesThey were the gatekeepers, with a clear conflict of interest — the people they were supposed to check up on were also the ones who hired and paid them. The need to protect their reputation was supposed to assure that the conflict... February 5, 2013 The Gun Report: February 4, 2013Source: Joe Nocera, NY TimesWeekends are always when most people get shot. This weekend, a famous sniper was killed by a troubled veteran he was trying to help, two kids were shot by accident (one wounded, one killed) and a shooting took place outside a... February 5, 2013 Fresh Questions Over a Bank of America SettlementSource: Gretchen Morgenson, NY TimesBank of America has long rued its decision in 2008 to acquire Countrywide Financial, the subprime mortgage giant. To date, the bank has set aside some $40 billion to settle claims of mortgage misconduct that occurred before it... January 30, 2013 A Tipping Point in Healthcare ReformSource: Politic 365As healthcare reform has become the law of the land by a landmark decision of the Supreme Court, the care-count continues to grow daily. This “count” is the number of American citizens who at age 65 years old become eligible for... January 24, 2013 Reality or Fantasy
Source: Tim Quast, President, ModernNetworks IR LLC
Speaking of rule-filings, here’s an example. Last week ahead of an SEC review deadline, NYSE Arca, an automated facility focused on ETFs and global derivatives-trading, withdrew a proposal permitting ETF sponsors to pay...[more] January 23, 2013 The U.N.'s Global Warming War On Capitalism: An Important History Lesson
Source: Forbes
The U.N.’s latest climate alarmist meeting in Doha, Qatar experienced somewhat of a different sort of man-made crisis in December in the form of a typhoon named Christopher Monckton, the third viscount of Benchley, advisor to... January 22, 2013 The Foreclosure FiascoSource: Joe Nocera, NY TimesIt’s been five days since Jessica Silver-Greenberg’s article on the latest bank settlement was posted on The New York Times’s Web site. I’m still shaking my head. Her “story behind the story” of the $8.5 billion settlement... January 22, 2013 The End of Handwriting
Source: Robert R McMillan, Featured Commentator
While computers and the Internet have made English the global language, they have also just about killed cursive or handwriting today. Some 41 (US) states do not require students to learn cursive. The focus is totally on the...[more] January 16, 2013 New regulations cost $216B and 87 million hours of paperwork. What do they reap?Source: ReutersIf you’re a business leader or conservative economist who worries that the federal government is strangling the economy in red tape, 2012 was a banner year. If you’re a consumer advocate or an environmentalist anxious for the... |
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