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This morning we had two key economic readings, and the trend is for higher prices and a re-weakening of the employment situation. The Labor Department released weekly jobless claims for the last...
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Ford Motor (NYSE: F) CEO Alan Mulally made $26,520,515 in 2010, according to the company’s proxy. It is the cheapest $26 million the firm ever spent. Ford was at death’s door a year after he...
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It is April Fools’ Day but we are not going to propagate any hoaxes. What we do want to revisit is some of the great frauds which have originated outside of public companies and managed to harm...
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Intuit Inc. (NASDAQ: INTU) is supposed to be the winner from the migration toward online tax return filings and the trend away from having actual people preparing tax returns. What if that turns...
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Force Majeure is perhaps one of the least favored aspects of corporate law. In short, Force Majeure is that odd exception that suddenly gives a supplier or a customer a pass on its contractual...
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Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) just issued another piece of nasty news. It will close its nine branded stores in China. It is another in a series of signs that the electronics retailer is in a steep decline....
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The ongoing fight for how to run The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) is heating up and taking a strange turn. Bruce Berkowitz, whose Fairholme Capital is a near-30% owner of St. Joe, has now resigned...
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“Pay Czar” Kenneth Feinberg failed to reign-in Wall Street pay practices, according to a Congressional Oversight Panel report entitled “Executive Compensation Restrictions in the Troubled...
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Media reports questioning whether the United States will keep its “Triple-A Rating” in the future are frequent. The fear of endless budget deficit spending and quantitative easing have only...
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It does not seem to matter that the government and much of the public are outraged over Wall St pay. It also does not seem to matter that Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) ran afoul of the SEC or that the...
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Corporation are now sitting on billions and billions of dollars in their corporate treasuries. They are keeping their share prices higher by returning capital to shareholders. Most are certainly...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has filed its proxy materials ahead of its annual meeting slated for February 23. There is a whole slew of data noted in the two SEC filings, but there is a reminder about...
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Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) may begin to pay US employees in stock if its plans in the UK are any indication. Starbucks shares have gone from $8 in March 2009 to $33 recently. The company sharply cuts...
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS) may be the poster child firm for wealth and excess on Wall Street. The bonus pools around Wall Street are being tallied up, and Bloomberg has shown that...
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More than half of the American workforce is comprised of women. It is well-known that they are paid less than their male counterparts. Several studies show that female workers make about 77% of the...
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