Friday, January 27, 2012

Natural Gas: T. Boone Pickens visited White House Seven Times (CLNE)

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I'll give him this, the old coot is indefatigable. From Politico: Oil and gas magnate T. Boone Pickens is celebrating Thursday after ...

Fraudsters: How Allen Stanford kept the SEC at bay"

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From Reuters via Portfolio.com: In 2009, federal investigators finally arrested Houston financier R. Allen Stanford. For twenty years, St...

Economists React: Not Loving This Morning's GDP Numbers

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From MarketBeat: Economists Scramble to Poke Holes in GDP Report Earlier, Steve-O (if Kansas can label me Gongo before he heads out the ...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Greenpeace Complains to SEC About TransCanada Keystone XL Employment Figues (TRP)

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I'll be back tomorrow with the story of the last time Greenpeace tried to use the SEC. From Greenpeace: Mary L. Schapiro Chairman S...

"Financials Have Worst Day Of Year As Fed Is Faded"

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There is a saying in politics: "As goes Guam, so goes Samoa America". [ probably popularized in Guam -ed ] In equity speculati...

How J.P. Morgan used the Fed's Lehman Playbook on MF Global

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From 'London Banker': Survivor Bias and TBTF Tyranny As I wrote in Ring Fences and Rustlers before Lehman failed in 2008: The...

Berkshire Hathaway's MidAmerican Energy Holdings launches new renewable energy business division (BRK.B(

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But first, two 2009 posts: Berkshire Hathaway's Munger on Cap-and-Trade ("Monstrously Stupid Right Now...Almost Demented"...

"Mega-man: The fast, fabulous, fraudulent life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom"

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From Ars Technica: Since the shutdown of Megaupload, stories have erupted about the life and exploits of the company's founder, a sel...

Natural Gas: J.P. Morgan Downgrades Chesapeake, Stock Down 4% (CHK)

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Another of our attempts to show off some of the 1300 feeds we subscribe to. I'll link to their homepage, scroll down if you wish. JPM d...