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The 1990s and early 2000s saw a surge of concern over “blood diamonds” and other gemstones that had been mined and exported from war-torn regions of the world, often accompanied by horrific exploitation and cost in human life. A big part of that story was pressure on the diamond industry from outside — from consumers, [...]
One of the big sticking points on the road to President Obama signing the Affordable Health Care for America Act earlier today was the debate over so-called Cadillac health care plans. The Senate bill wanted to impose a hefty tax on these luxe plans and the House bill didn’t, out of some misplaced fear that [...]
While the rest of the country went back to work last week, Congress is just getting around to that task today and by most accounts healthcare is at the top of the agenda. But one company seems to have gotten an early start: Invacare (IVC) filed this 8K on Friday, which certainly caught our attention. [...]
Yesterday, we took a break from our normal trawl through the filings to cozy up with the transcript from the arguments before the Supreme Court over whether the Public Company Accounting Board (PCAOB), which was created under Sarbanes-Oxley, has a right to exist. The arguments in the case, which was formally titled the Free Enterprise Fund [...]
As we all know now, the Senate Finance Committee passed healthcare legislation yesterday. Of course, as this Bloomberg story points out, there’s still a long way to go. One of the many things that has been amusing during this whole debate has been resistance by many Democrats — a letter signed by 156 members of [...]
