Archive for March, 2008

JP Morgan’s Plan to Help You (Or Someone Like You, but Richer) Execute Insider Trades

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Wikileaks has a document online that details how JP Morgan helps its insider investors sell their stock in ways that circumvent insider trading laws. Does it work? Alan D. Jagolinzer, an assistant professor at Stanford University Graduate School of Business, recently completed a study of roughly 117,000 trades in 10b5-1 plans by 3,426 executives at […]

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Question

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I saw this Question over at Suburban Guerrilla and thought it would be a good one to ask of fellow Delawarean’s. What is your worst fear, if any, about the current economic situation?

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The surge is working, the surge is wor

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BAGHDAD — It was billed as a national “dialogue” that would bring Iraq’s disparate and warring factions together to discuss their differences and emerge with a blueprint for peaceful coexistence. But if the national reconciliation conference held here on Tuesday revealed anything, it was that the deep political and religious fissures that run through this […]

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A donviti thought for the day

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This really has to blow a hole in that partner for life thing this country gets all caught up in.   I mean how funny is it that God created all these creatures in HIS LIKENESS and the only freaking one that is monogamous is a flat worm? Once upon a time, biologists thought that there […]

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I’m glad March Madness is here!

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Personally I don’t think there is a better time of year for basketball fans.  The NBA playoffs are fun to watch, but these kids play their hearts out to win, not for the money.  I’m also glad March Madness is here because if I have to watch one more freaking ABC/ESPN game with Dick Vitale […]

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Dick Cheney Keeping it Real

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MUSCAT, Oman – Vice President Dick Cheney went fishing in the waters between Oman and Iran on Wednesday, borrowing the Sultan of Oman’s 60-foot royal yacht for the mission. A Cheney spokeswoman said the vice president, his wife Lynne, and daughter, Liz, a former State Department official who is traveling with her father as a […]

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Mike Castle Called me! Donviti!

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So, Mr. Torture himself has asked me over for dinner.  All the way in freaking Middletown.  I’m not sure why he called it a town hall meeting though?  The message on my answering machine invited me to come out and ask questions.  It’s this Thursday.  Who wants to go with me?  I need a hot […]

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Barack Obama’s More Perfect Union

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Text of this remarkable speech here. In fact, a similar anger exists within segments of the white community. Most working- and middle-class white Americans don’t feel that they have been particularly privileged by their race. Their experience is the immigrant experience – as far as they’re concerned, no one’s handed them anything, they’ve built it […]

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Washington Times

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Here is a little clip to have in the back of your mind the next time Allan Loudell interviews a writer from the Washington Times about what the “Democrats” are up to while pretending that the Washington Times is a real newspaper. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QuDK5mmOvA[/youtube]

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A donviti thought for the day

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I am rethinking just how valuable a harvard MBA is and if it current economic conditions have devalued it at all….thoughts. ‘The problem is not at all insurmountable in the long run,’ Herbert Hoover, Oct. 6, 1930

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Guns don’t kill people

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People with Guns kill people.  People with guns that shoot 800 50mm rounds in 20 seconds kill people.   Hundreds line up to watch Supreme Court gun ban caseWASHINGTON – Hundreds of people have lined up outside the Supreme Court for arguments on the constitutionality of the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns.

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Wall Street Welfare

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As it is called by E.J.Dionne in what is likely the last word on corporate America’s newly found use for government and Wall Street’s currently hypocritical stance towards government and its utility: Never do I want to hear again from my conservative friends about how brilliant capitalists are, how much they deserve their seven-figure salaries […]

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Ready….one, 2 and a three give me a big WAAAAAAHHHH

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h/t suburban guerrilla….. For James E. Cayne, the firm’s chairman and former chief executive, holding on to his Bear stock was a point of pride, and he rarely, if ever, sold. A billionaire just over a year ago when Bear’s stock soared past $160, his 5.8 million shares are now worth about $28 million at […]

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