• North Korea Wanted Only Bill Clinton for Mission to Free Women – And Bill Clinton wanted the mission to free women. Worked out great. [Bloomberg]
• Senate Votes 68-31 to Confirm Sotomayor – Senator Stuart Smalley Al Franken presided over the vote, which Bill O’Reilly will hate, which we, in turn, will love. [ATL]
• AIG’s Hank Greenberg Pays $15 Million to End SEC Suit [Bloomberg]
• Unemployed Man Getting Really Good At Unemployment Not surprisingly, it’s pretty easy. [The Onion]
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Review Comments | 10.29.09
• Fed should lose AIG-style bailout powers: Geithner – The past is the past, huh, Timmay? [Reuters]
• Chrysler to offer live TV service in vehicles up to 20 channels starting in December – Because we can’t squeeze in enough at home. [CT]
• Wall Street Journal closes Boston bureau – Dow Jones and Market Watch will stay for now. [Reuters]
• CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 30 – Motorola, Nissan, Nokia all have new chiefs. [CFO]
• Not Good Enough – Gotta good job? Still need a second job? [Financial Armageddon]
• Citrin Cooperman to Merge in Carrow Doyle – Combined firm will have $80+ million in revenues and have offices in Philadelphia and New York looking to expand to Boston, and Washington. [Web CPA]
Review Comments | 11.13.09
• Fix the Tax Code Friday: Targeted Enforcement – Top three targets: 1) offshore accounts; 2) pass-through entities; 3) high wage earners [Tax Girl]
• Securities Regulators to Talk Financial Literacy With Students – And the regulators might learn something. [SEC.gov]
• 2 Programmers Are Charged With Aiding Madoff – Bor-ing. Family members next time please. [DealBook]
• BYU Sweeps 2009 Deloitte Tax Case Study Competition – See? Caffeine isn’t necessary. [TaxProf Blog]
• Hard Times and Bad Behavior – Are you shoplifiting? [Financial Armageddon]
Review Comments | 09.17.09
• KPMG Corporate Finance Chief Steps Down – To get to know his family better. That’s nice. [PEHub]
• Deloitte Adds Hedge Fund Heavyweights Schubert, Iler – Deloitte making a strong move into HF biz? [Press Release]
• Grant Thornton LLP collects more than 110,000 cans of food for needy – That’s good. [GT Press Release]
• The Faces of RBI Presented by KPMG to premiere on ESPN2 – Also good. [MLB]
• Forty percent of U.S. junk bonds to default by 2013: BofA – Not so good. [Reuters]