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Dow hits record, erasing Great Recession losses
NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is back. Five and a half years after the start of a frightening drop that erased $11 trillion from stock portfolios and made investors despair of ever getting their money back, the Dow Jones industrial average...
Tags: Earnings, Ben Bernanke, New York University, Computing and Information Technology Industry, George W. Bush
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Candidates and year-round swimming
I've written to the Leader previously on year-round swimming at the public pools and it would be interesting to know about the City Council candidates’ positions on this issue. However, there is a larger issue that has a greater impact on...Tags: Local Elections
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This weekend: ‘Walking Dead’ knockout; Daniel on ‘The Bible’; story of Twitter on ‘60 Minutes’
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe weekend highlights, by night: SUNDAY 1. “The Walking Dead,” at 9 p.m. on AMC, focuses on Andrea (Laurie Holden) to deliver a suspenseful episode that would do Alfred Hitchcock proud. There are at least three classic moments in this... -
Work crept into her life, until life disappeared
Erin Callan was the face of Lehman Brothers in 2008 as it battled insolvency rumors. Fresh, pretty, smart and confidently articulate, she worked feverishly to try to talk nervous investors out of jumping ship. But when the company imploded in 2008,...Tags: New York City, Media Industry, The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg, Bankruptcy
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Goldman Sachs can also be Wall Street's moral leader
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s announcement that it will now bestow coveted managing director titles upon its rising vice presidents every two years, instead of annually, may have shaken the foundation at its New York headquarters. For the rest of the world,...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., European Union, Lloyd Blankfein, Financially Distressed Companies, Banking
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Achieving a Work-Life Balance is Hard
It appears the debate over work-life balance is heating up once again. First former Lehman Brothers CFO Erin Callan wrote this article entitled “Is There Life After Work?” for the New York Times, then 60 Minutes aired a segment in which...
Tags: Computing and Information Technology Industry, Media Industry, The New York Times, Television Industry
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The best way yet to proclaim love for a tax cheat
Ernst & Young LLP received the usual kid-glove treatment given to too-big-to-fail enterprises when it reached a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over illegal tax shelters it sold more than a decade ago. The government chose not to prosecute the...Tags: Ethics, Crimes, Norwalk (Fairfield, Connecticut), Fraud, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation
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Barclays' new morality, same old Wall Street
Is there suddenly a "new morality" on Wall Street? There is, if you believe Antony Jenkins, the chief executive officer of Barclays Plc. It's tempting to trust this sweet-talking British banking executive, still in the flush of his new appointment to...Tags: Ethics, Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), BBC, Religion and Belief, Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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Adela Cepeda carved her own path to success
Adela Cepeda stepped adroitly along her path to become one of the city's most prominent Latina businesswomen. But she walked it on her own, rather than as part of the power couple she and her husband were once well on their way to becoming. Cepeda, an...
Tags: Barack Obama, Chicago Housing Authority, Bonds, Michelle Obama, Robert Rodriguez
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Goldfinger Would Envy Latest Taxpayer Shakedown
It has become fashionable to despair of our supposed recent lack of technological progress. All the big inventions of modern society -- jet engines, television, nuclear weapons -- were on the scene by the early 1960s. Proponents of this view should...
Tags: University of New Hampshire, Business Institutions, Government Debt, Finance, Congressional Budget Office
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Hey, AIG: F*** You
Hey there behemoth insurer, American International Group! Allow me to speak for nearly all Americans left, right, and center when I say get f***ed and go f***ing f*** yourself. Sorry, I usually try to keep such language to a minimum on this blog, but...
Tags: Bill Clinton, American International Group, Federal Bailout Funds, Maurice R. Greenberg, Finance
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Timothy Potts has ideas for Getty Museum
When Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September, he knew he was stepping into an anomaly of a job, unusual within the ranks of America's most prestigious museums. Other museum heads, bound by tight budgets, must essentially beg...
Tags: Indiana Jones (fictional character), Archaeology, Arts, Religion and Belief, The Getty
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