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With the news yesterday that some form of the public option for healthcare appears to be moving forward, we can probably expect more companies to start including warnings like Walgreen (WAG) did in the 10-K it filed yesterday: The Federal government has been considering proposals to reform the U.S. health care system. These proposals may [...]
Sorry — the economics major in me came out in the headline. But it’s the first thing that I thought about after skimming the S-1 that Freedom Group filed earlier today. You can read news reports of the filing here and here. We’ve only skimmed the filing, but just like Smith & Wesson, Freedom Group [...]
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 [...]
In the proxy, that Microsoft (MSFT) filed earlier this week, there was an interesting new disclosure about Microsoft’s political contributions: Microsoft recognizes the increasing interest of U.S. public company shareholders in establishing greater transparency of corporate political contributions. Microsoft discloses its political contributions to support candidates and ballot measures. Microsoft has also adopted principles for [...]
While we’re still making our way through the massive amount of Qs that have been filed over the past few days, we thought that this transcript attached to an 8-K filed late yesterday by footnoted frequent flyer FTI Consulting (FCN) was too amusing to pass up. Here’s a snip from CEO Jack Dunn: On the [...]
