• Christmas Gifts for that Special Tax Person – A possible gift for that Tim Geithner groupie in your life. [TaxProf Blog]
• GM Recruits Microsoft’s Liddell as New Finance Chief – Apparently GM’s finance department had some Deliverance thing going on. [Bloomberg]
• Top 50 Blogs for Accountants – There are some familiar names on this list, including GC. Thanks! [The Biz-Learner]
• Rajaratnam, Chiesi Plead Not Guilty – Doing what’s best for investors is not a crime. [WSJ]
• Crazy Eddie inductee talks about walls of false integrity – Sam Antar = Hall of Famer [Con Artist Hall of Infamy]
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• US budget deficit at $1 trillion – But the trade deficit is at a nine year low. Hoo-RAH! [BBC]
• Ronald Crawford Named SEC’s First Chief Counsel For Diversity Initiatives – Because M Schape’s troops are sick of talking about stuff they don’t do right, they needed to make an announcement that wouldn’t have anything to do with actual watch-dogginess. [SEC.gov]
• Even in Downturn, a London Banker’s Party Goes On – Even Homer Simpson has said, “It’s a party. It doesn’t have to make sense” [DealBook/NYT]
Review Comments | 08.04.09
• Kim Pardons Journalists – Arkansas moxie does it again. We never doubted it for a second. [WSJ]
• SEC accuses GE of accounting fraud – Cue a smug but probably still unsatisfied Bill O’Reilly. [FT Alphaville]
• PayPal Users Hit by Global Service Outage – How will anyone pay for the Lehman schwag? [WSJ]
• SEC set to target flash trading – “The US Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to clamp down on lightning-fast “flash” trades made on electronic trading systems amid growing concerns that the practice puts some investors at a disadvantage.” And disadvantages are not the American way. [FT.com]
Review Comments | 09.10.09
• SEC contrite over failure to uncover Madoff – The victims, we understand you want to let them know. The rest of us? WE GET IT. [Reuters]
• AICPA Proposes Clarification on Sharing Client Information – In a word: Don’t. [Compliance Week]
• Geithner: Banks To Repay $50 Billion In Rescue Funds – Is someone still tracking this? [NPR]
• Recession Takes Heavy Toll on U.S. – There’s this…[WSJ]
• Stocks Rally to New 2009 Peaks – …then there is this. [WSJ]