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Citi settles as big firms fret over obscenities …

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Another stormy summer day in Washington, another high-profile lawsuit from the Securities and Exchange Commission — this one against Citigroup and former senior executives of the company. Once again, it’s about disclosure, and the agency’s press release puts it succinctly: “Citigroup repeatedly made misleading statements in earnings calls and public filings about the extent of [...]

Circor’s executive-level bailout…

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

It’s no secret that housing prices in places like Riverside County, Ca. have fallen sharply, in part due to a wave of foreclosures that at least according to this article has one out of every eight homeowners facing foreclosure. Indeed, the county is working hard to avoid more foreclosures. Still, the 8K that Circor (CIR) [...]

On the politics of subprime and sex party houses….

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

I’ve been down in Bradenton, Florida the past few days where I started my career as a journalist. After spending the weekend walking door to door to get out the vote for Barack Obama, I’m now turning my attention to reporting and plan to attend the daily 11 a.m. foreclosure sale run by the Manatee [...]

Another day, another hearing on what went wrong…

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Yesterday was the credit rating agencies. Today’s turn before the Committee on Oversight is the troika of Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, former Treasury Secretary John Snow, and current SEC chairman Chris Cox. The opening statements, including a substantially shorter one by Cox than the one sent out to reporters only an hour earlier. Cox’s [...]

Sunpower offers housing assistance to new CFO…

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

It’s no secret that San Diego is awash in foreclosures. Indeed, Realty Trac lists 18,885 bank-owned homes in the county and another 12,041 in pre-foreclosure. Given that kind of distressed supply, prices have fallen dramatically — about 30 percent, according to this report. So perhaps it’s not all that surprising that when Sunpower (SPWRA) announced [...]