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On Wednesday, the SEC announced the creation of an Investor Advisory Committee, which it said would give the SEC “a greater voice in the Commission’s Work”. In general, the list of names had few surprises: representatives from labor, a select group of academics, and some industry folks. But one name jumped out at me: Mark [...]
Here at footnoted, we don’t normally beat our chests about our stock picking prowess. There’s literally countless places online where you can read about some genius who makes incredibly fantastic trades day after day. Still, when we were going over some numbers for the first quarter, we couldn’t help but notice that one of the [...]
We had been planning to do an April Fool’s joke post today — something clever about the SEC coming out with a new 10-K EZ form (like the 1040 EZ) or a new mandate that requires all filings to be made in 12 point type, instead of the Enron Beelzebub typeface that we normally see. [...]
Nearly 5 1/2 years ago, when footnoted.org had only been around for a month, I wrote this post about Krispy Kreme (KKD), which at the time, was a Wall Street and media darling. Anyone remember that Andy Serwer love letter in Fortune? At the time the stock was trading in the low 40s, but there [...]
It didn’t take long after last night’s incredibly moving celebration in Chicago’s Grant Park when Senator Barack Obama became President-Elect Obama for attention to turn to key jobs in an Obama Administration. Already, there’s lots of talk about Rep. Rahm Emanuel being offered the Chief of Staff position. While most of the attention will focus [...]
