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- Wall Street Loves Obama
- Wall Street is coming on strong for Barack Obama in this year's presidential campaign donation race. Big investment firms such as Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan favor Obama over John McCain by margins of roughly four or five to one. So states a recent report by Chief...
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- "W's" Last Screwup
- Call it "W's" last screwup. With only five days left to go in his presidency, George Bush and his advisors are caught in critical mess over what to do with the second tranche of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Barack Obama and his incoming staff want access...
- Blog posts 2009-01-15
- What Exactly Was Bush's Record with Small Business?
- Barack Obama's inaugural speech as a not-too-subtle debunking of George W. Bush's policies. Some of them might involve diversions of small business programs to large corporate giants. That's the thesis of the lobby American Small Business League which claims that the Bush Administration cost small business more...
- Blog posts 2009-01-21
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- Will the Financial Summit Create a Global Regulatory Cop?
- In slightly more than a week’s time, leaders of 20 nations will gather in Washington for a financial crisis summit that could lead to a new global securities cop, a “constitution†for regulating banks and investments and much greater cross-border cooperation a world finance community that grows ever tighter. ...
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- CEOs Favor McCain 4 to 1: Survey
- John McCain is the hands-down preference for president among chief corporate executives, according to a recent survey by Chief Executive magazine. Democratic hopeful Barack Obama fared miserably in the survey which showed a 4 to 1 preference for the Arizona senator. In fact, 74 percent of the...
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Obama Turns to CEOs for Support on Stimulus
- Trying to muster help to break any possible Republican deadlock on his $825 billion stimulus package, President Barack Obama is turning to CEOs for help. Today, he met with a star-studded cast of 13 CEOs in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. Obama bucked up the...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Need Seen for Softer Touch on Say for Pay
- Suggesting a softer, more nuanced approach is needed regarding executive compensation issues, a new group of 36 Fortune 100 companies is setting up an advocacy group in Washington to offer an alternative to the hard-liner Business Roundtable. Called the Center on Executive Compensation, the group has been...
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect: In the Beginning
- We're coming up on the sixth anniversary of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which still stirs strong emotions. Indeed, when President George W. Bush signed it into law on July 30, 2002, he called it "the most far-reaching" business regulation reform since the days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. ...
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- McCain's Goofy Attack on SEC's Cox
- Holy hypocrisy! John McCain is blaming Christopher Cox for the Wall Street meltdown and wants him fired. The would-be president says that the chairman of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission has been asleep at the switch. McCain's political ploy raises many questions about...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Paulson on Bended Knee: Why the Urgency?
- Imagine Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson down on bended knee before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. He's begging for his $700 billion bailout. Pelosi, a Democrat stalwart, blames the Republicans in the House of Representatives. Paulson replies meekly: "I know, I know." At least there was a little comic...
- Blog posts 2008-09-26
- The Bailout Failure: Let's All Take a Deep Breath
- Monday could not have been more dramatic. After more than a week of dickering, a Wall Street bailout package finally got far enough for real consideration. It lost by merely 23 votes in the U.S House of Representatives. The Dow quickly screamed bloody murder with a loss of 777 points,...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Does Citi's Breakup Presage a Tougher Approach by Obama?
- OK, fine. Citigroup's "one-stop shopping" for financial services is being swept into the dust bin of history. The banking giant will downsize by at least one-third. What's next? That's a key question as we sit on the cusp of two presidential admininistrations. What we could be seeing...
- Blog posts 2009-01-14
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