Archive for the 'SEC stuff' Category

Not quite two weeks ago, we passed the midpoint of 2011, marking a perfect opportunity to continue ignoring our New Year’s resolutions — and to check in on that marvel of modern investing, the Edgar database at the Securities and Exchange Commission. Edgar, of course, is the SEC’s ever-growing trove of corporate disclosures — as [...]

The temperature may have officially reached the high 80s yesterday afternoon in Washington, D.C., but we bet it was significantly hotter in room 2167 of the Rayburn House Office Building. That’s where the SEC’s Chairman, Mary Schapiro, and its Inspector General, H. David Kotz, were in the hot seat to answer questions for the Congressional [...]

Philosopher and writer George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” It’s hard to fathom that people are already forgetting what caused our economic crisis (the conclusions of the bi-partisan Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission are here), but some members of Congress make us wonder about that. We listened to a telephone news conference [...]

There’s usually a time in late February — invariably on a Friday — when the folks here at footnoted begin to wonder what the hell we’re doing as we stare at several hundred filings in our inbox. Just like the little Dutch Boy,  we often feel as if we’re trying to plug the hole in [...]