•No Evidence Found to Charge Ruth Madoff – The aggression will obviously continue. [WSJ]
•Consumer Interest ‘Huge’ in Clunker Plan, LaHood Says – Call us party poopers but it seems like manufactured consumption. [Bloomberg]
•Pimco: Consumer “greed” hibernating, fear rules – Greed will be good again. Don’t you worry. [Reuters]
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Review Comments | 09.01.09
• College Football Coach Follows Lead of Ponzi Kings – Go Blue. [DB]
• Canadian Deloitte Partner Fined $235k for ‘Shoddy Accounting’ [JDA]
• Mormons Become Victims in $50 Million Scam to Sell Gold Bullion – Mitt Romney was NOT involved. [Bloomberg]
• Wells Fargo Expects to Repay TARP Soon Without New Share Sale – We still haven’t seen a dividend check [Bloomberg]
• Buffett Helped AIG, XL – at a Price – “Both insurers signed so-called cut-through endorsements with a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. to offer some policy holders a guarantee that if the insurers couldn’t pay claims, Berkshire Hathaway would.” The man is nothing if he’s not good with money. [WSJ]
Review Comments | 09.24.09
• IRS Extends Grace Period On Small Business Penalties – “The IRS announced in July it would suspend efforts to collect those penalties through Sept. 30, in order to give Congress time to pass legislation shielding business owners from some of the penalties.” [WSJ]
• Twitter Lines Up New Financing – Get it over with. Follow us. [WSJ]
• “Wait! I Was Just Getting Started…” – A Response From Professor Kelly Pope – Of DePaul University in Chicago [RTA]
• 2010 State Business Tax Climate Index (Seventh Edition) – Some Dakota is #1, Dick Cheney Land is #2; CA #48; New York #49; New Jersey #50. [The Tax Foundation]
• Twitter, the new Reuters witness – Whatever works. [FT Alphaville]
• How Safe Is Your College? [The Daily Beast]
Review Comments | 08.21.09
• Geithner: U.S. Dealings With Goldman Were Appropriate – “We have been forced to do just extraordinary things and, frankly, offensive things to help save the economy,” Mr. Geithner said. “I am completely confident that none of those decisions…had anything to do with the specific interest of any individual firm, much less Goldman Sachs.” We’re done here. [WSJ]
• Informant in UBS Case Gets 40 Months in Prison – That was worth it. [DealBook]
• Humble pie for bust billionaire – He called Russians not in the bil-club ‘losers’. Classy. [BBC]
• Meredith Whitney Predicts More Than 300 Bank Failures – Meh. [Bloomberg]