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“Good” Buy-Out’s & “Bad” Buy-Out’s

Congrats?  Or Condolences? It’s hard to know whether congratulations or condolences are in order these days when you hear the news that someone’s company has just been bought out (acquired). The happier circumstance is that everyone’s “ticket” just got punched:  their stock options vested, their golden (silver?) parachutes deployed, etc. The other possibility? The new...
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"Inside Job" by Charles Ferguson

See . . This . . Movie Calling Charles Ferguson’s “Inside Job” a documentary is like calling The Gettysburg Address a speech. Bar none, it is the clearest, most succinct explanation of the Wall Street-engineered financial crash — whose aftermath we are still very much dealing with — that I have seen. More than a...
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