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July 2008
Yahoo! Takes Proxy Fight To The Internet
UBS, LGT Helped Tax Evaders - Senate Subcommittee Report
Yahoo Google Senate Antitrust Hearing
National City Tamping Down Market Rumors
Yahoo! Rejects Microsoft-Icahn Search and Restructuring Proposal
IndyMac Bank Closed by OTS, FDIC Takes Over
Mirror, Mirror On the Wall - Is Lehman headed for a Fall?
Bernanke, Paulson Push Congress For Regulatory Power Consolidation
IndyMac Hits Bottom - Literally
Icahn & Ballmer Plotting Yahoo Takeover
SFBC Wants UBS, Credit Suisse To Raise $68 Billion Capital
JP Morgan Takes $1 Billion Hit Over Bear Stearns Assets
Microsoft Throws Another Curveball at Yahoo
DOJ Moves Court For UBS Client List
June 2008
IndyMac Slide Triggers Alarms in Washington, Wall Street
Senators Caution Fed, SEC On Securities Oversight
Old Yahoo In a New Bottle
California, Illionis Sue Countrywide, Shareholders Approve BofA Sale
FedEx Investigation Over Tax, Independent Contractors
Google Tops RQ Reputation Survey
Motorola Im-mobile
UBS AG To Out American Clients
Microsoft Targeting Yahoo Talent
Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Managers Arrested
Ross Perot Charts His Way Back Into Limelight
Yahoo's Future Flickr-ing
Yang Logic
Countrywide Loan Scandal - Chris Dodd, Others, Got V.I.P. Loans
Microsoft Yahoo Talks End In Failure
The Answers Yahoo Cannot Give
Geithner Pushing Derivatives Trading Reforms
Angelo Mozilo - Subprime CEO
Icahn Sets Yahoo Shares Price Tag
Senate Hearing On Securities Underwriting Practices at Investment Banks
Yahoo Shareholder Meeting August 1
Unsealed Yahoo Shareholder Lawsuit Docs Reveal $40 Bid, Dirty Tactics
Countrywide Shareholders To Vote On BofA Deal
May 2008
The Gramm UBS Connection
Bear Stearns Shareholders Approve JPMorgan Sale
Microsoft Yahoo Crunch Time
Siemens Bribery Trial Could Widen Probe
Yahoo Update - AGM Postponed, Director Edward Kozel Resigns
Washington Fuels Alternative Energy Drive
Senate Committee Looking At Commodities Investment Limits
Icahn Yahoo Bid Gains Steam
Fannieing The Subprime Flameout
Microsoft Considers Limited Yahoo Transaction
Google May Bail Out of Yahoo Ad Deal
Fed Asset Bubble Party Poopers Want More Regulation
Carl Icahn Mulling Yahoo Proxy Fight To Oust Board
Wal-Mart Quarterly Profits Up 6.9%
Regulating Up The Wrong Tree
MA College Endowment Tax Debate Heats up
UBS Tax Evasion Probe Nets American Clients
Deals Gone bad
Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo
Warren Buffetted By Derivates, Ratings Agency Probe
Ballmer Backtracks, Yahoo Google Ad Deal On The Cards
April 2008
Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act
Carlyle Tops PEI 50 List
CEO Alan Mulally Motors Ford Into High Gear
Evidence Found in Halliburton Bribe Probe
MS-Yahoo - Clock Ticking, Still Not Tocking
Justice Dept Probing Google/Yahoo Deal
Triple-A Failure - Roger Lowenstein, NYT
Yahoo Q1 Earnings Fallout
Wal-Mart Tops 2008 Fortune 500 List
National City & Corsair Capital In $7 Billion Deal
Google Hits Ball Out Of The Park - 31% Q1 Profit Jump
Clean Energy Tax Stimulus Act of 2008
Yahoo Testing Google Adsense, Close To AOL Deal
Citi Unloads $12 Billion Leveraged Loans
Tech Slowdown - AMD Cuts 1650 Jobs
Carlyle Distressed Debt Fund
Carry Trades and Currency Crashes
Microsoft Reevaluating Bid - Yahoo Tanks
Vulture Investors Swooping Down On Wall Street
Why Bernanke Should Increase Interest Rates Now
March 2008
WSJ vs. CitiGroup
Cisco Systems - Leaner, Greener & Meaner
Lehman Brothers - Good, Bad & Ugly
Congress Begins Bear Stearns Inquisitions
Jane Mendillo - Harvard Endowment CEO
Grouping On Citi
Goldman Sachs SPAC IPO - Liberty Lane Acquisition Corp
Wells Fargo CEO Wants Fed Help For National City Acquisition
JPMorgan To Raise Bear Stearns Bid To $10
Are We There Yet?
Timothy F. Geithner - Wall Street's Banker of Last Resort
Stupidonomics - Social Security Trust Fund
SEC Fires Bear Stearns Warning Salvo
BNP Paribas - No Societe Generale Takeover Bid
Bear Stearns Shareholders May Reject $2 JPMorgan Sale
Abu Dhabi Sets Investment Code - WSJ
Why Oil Is Still Climbing
Bear Stearns Sale Options
Robert Salomon, Stern School of Business, New York University
Al Gore Investing $35 Million In Hedge Funds
Carlyle Capital Nears Collapse
Second Societe Generale Trader Detained in Trading Probe
What The Fed Can Do
China's trade surplus plunges 63 percent
Silicon Valley Rats Deserting Startups
Blame It On Washington
WSJ - FBI Investigates Countrywide
Time For Rate Cuts - Again
KBR Offshore Tax Haven Avoids Payroll Taxes
Forbes - Warren Buffett World's Richest Man, Gates Drops to Third
Yahoo Extends Board Directors Nomination Deadline
The Bernanke Bureaucracy
Brett Steenbarger - What Makes An Expert?
Grameen America Gives Subprime Lending Tutorial To Wall Street
February 2008
Leveraged Losses Lessons from the Mortgage Market Meltdown
John Irons - Argmax.com
LGT Liechtenstein Tax Evasion Probe Ripples Across Borders
Looking Back For A New Deal - Alan S. Blinder
Yahoo Sued For Rejecting Microsoft Bid By Detroit Pension Funds
Supreme Court Allows 401k Lawsuits
Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. To Diversify Portfolio
Obama Administration Fiscal Policy & Economic Advisors
Citigroup Hedge Fund CSO Partners Bars Withdrawals
Whats News - Bernanke, Yahoo, Intrade, Bush
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies - Wall Street Gone Nuts
Yahoo Looking East? Land of the Rising Son
Yahoo Board to reject Microsoft bid
Yahoo's Last Line of Defence - Jerry Yang
$123 Billion Economic Stimulus Bill Clears Congress
SocGen Trading Scandal Tax Twist
Oil Sector Rumblings
Microsoft Makes Bid for Yahoo
January 2008
Stagflation Fears Cut Short Post Fed Rate Cut Stock Rally
FBI Opens Subprime Inquiry
George W. Bush - 2001-2008
Digital Sharks Circle New York Times
Societe Generale’s Selloff Triggered Stock Market Crash
$150 Billion Economic Stimulus Package Ready
Motorola Profit Plunges 84%
Perfect Storm For Tech Stocks
DeCoupling US Economy - Globalisation Comes Home To Roost
Desperate Economists
How Goldman Sachs Beat The Subprime Crash
Recession Politics
The Education of Ben Bernanke - New York Times
Brad DeLong - UC Berkeley
BofA-Countrywide Deal Not Merger, But Split
Countrywide Financial Corp Bankruptcy Fear Panics Markets
From Rate Cuts To Tax Cuts
Walmart Loses REIT Tax Strategy Refund Gimmick
Solar Stocks Making Hay While Sun Shines
2008 Heralds Optimism - Investors Getting Back In
December 2007
Harvard Middle Class Financial Aid Triggers College Price War
Buffett's New Brainchild - Hathaway Assurance Corp.
Treasury Shelves M-LEC
Merry Christmas - Sponsored by Corporate Philanthropy
Fed Limits Penalties on Subprime Mortgage Prepayment
Ivan Werning - MacroEconomic Theory, MIT
Citigroup SIV's Come Home to Roost
Greenspan to Bernanke: Fed is Powerless
David Swensen - CIO, Yale Endowment
Todd Sullivan (ValuePlays)
Auto-Loan Delinquencies Rising Worry
Matt Cooper Wants To Buy New York Times
Robert DeFrancesco (Tech-Stock Prospector)
Freeze Rates on Subprime Loans Possible
November 2007
SWF Vultures Circle Over SIV Carcass
401k Plan Lawsuit in Supreme Court
WSJ - Hedge Funds Leveraging Numbers
Kudlow Uncorks The Crystal Ball
Thrift Savings Plan Restricts Day Traders
Investing Communities Gain Value
Tax Strategy Patents Feel The Heat
Todd Woody (Green Wombat)
The Economics of Love
Hedge Funds Set To Bloom in Russia
The Grim Taxman Comes After Hedge Funds
Econosphere Moves to Health Care
Roger Ehrenberg - Monitor110
October 2007
William Conerly (Businomics)
Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture)
Jeff Beaubien Lease Purchase Investor
Rahmbo Takes On Tax Shelters
Economic Blogs Added to Endangered Species
Jason Shafrin (Healthcare Economist)
Paulson Betting On Subprime Crash Legislation
Banks Circle Subprime Wagon With $100 Billion Fund
Nobel Sweepstakes
Dotcom Redux - Bubble 2
RIP - Carried Interest Tax Hike
ETA 2009
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John Nofsinger - Psychology of Investing
James F. Smith (EconForecaster)
Christopher Thornberg (Beacon Economics)
September 2007
Endowment Investment Performace Roundup
Professor N. Gregory Mankiw
Subprime Titanic
Jeremy J. Siegel
Seeking Scapegoats - Hedge Funds
Subprime Creeps Across Borders
Capitol Hedge Fund Debate Gains Steam
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TSP board to spend $15 million on IT infrastructure
Bruce Greenwald
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