It’s Through The Pursuit Of Shareholder Value That Corporations Enrich Stakeholders

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Foundation For Economic Education
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Sunday, October 27, 2019 9:00 AM EST
Does pursuing maximum shareholder value preclude “investing in our employees?” Hint: It doesn’t!
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Thomas Cook To Dish Out US$250M After Demise

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Interactive Brokers
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Wednesday, September 25, 2019 3:16 AM EST
A European committee decided that British travel group Thomas Cook’s forced liquidation Monday has triggered a bankruptcy credit event, requiring the iconic company to remunerate buyers of credit default protection.
GBP/JPY Looks To Resume Short Term Uptrend

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FXTechstrategy Team
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Thursday, September 19, 2019 12:00 AM EST
GBP/JPY looks to resume short term uptrend as it eyes further upside strength.
Free Search & Social: We Are Not The Product; We Are Underpaid Workers

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Shelly Palmer
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Sunday, September 8, 2019 1:33 PM EST
We are neither digital products nor possessors of a fungible currency that represents the marginal value of our data; we are underpaid digital workers whose labor (behaviors) generates raw data which is used in the manufacture of digital products.
Wozniak: Time To Split Up Apple, Other Tech Monopolies

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Tyler Durden
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Sunday, September 1, 2019 4:16 PM EST
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says it's time to break up big tech monopolies - including Apple, Facebook and Google. According to The Woz, these tech titans are abusing their powers to crush companies in other markets.
Dominoes Falling At Big Banks That Rigged Precious Metals Markets

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Stefan Gleason
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Monday, August 26, 2019 6:34 PM EST
The crooked precious metals trading department at JPMorgan Chase lost another man last week. Christian Trunz pleaded guilty to criminal “spoofing” of the markets and resigned from his position as an Executive Director with the bank.
EC Should Corporations Consider Any “Stakeholders” Other Than Shareholders?

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Foundation For Economic Education
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Saturday, August 24, 2019 4:00 AM EST
In many ways, the Business Roundtable statement is a textbook example of free markets operating as they should.
5 Highlights Of Berkshire Hathaway’s Second Quarter Report

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David Kass
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Sunday, August 4, 2019 5:14 AM EST
Operating earnings declined, cash position increased. Berkshire currently holds $200 billion in equities.
The Latest Ken Henry Blow-Up

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Bronte Capital
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Saturday, August 3, 2019 3:49 AM EST
The Sydney Morning Herald today led with a headline that in leaked letters to consultants, Dr Ken Henry (then Chair of National Australia Bank) had said that bad things were being done - even as they spoke - at National Australia Bank.
More 737 Max Delays: Boeing's Corner Cutting Cost A Fortune And 346 Lives

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Mish Shedlock
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 12:44 PM EST
The 737 Max may now be grounded for as much as a year. A new report assesses the corner cutting mistakes. But did Boeing really learn anything?
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History Shows We Shouldn't Regulate Big Tech

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Foundation For Economic Education
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Sunday, July 7, 2019 1:05 AM EST
A growing animosity toward Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon has gained mainstream traction, seen by increasingly louder calls by activists and politicians from across the political spectrum to regulate tech markets.
Second Highest Number Of S&P 500 Companies Issuing Negative Guidance On Record

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Tyler Durden
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Saturday, June 29, 2019 9:03 PM EST
Heading into the end of the second quarter, 113 S&P 500 companies have issued EPS guidance for the quarter. Of these 113 companies, 87 have issued negative EPS guidance and 26 companies have issued positive EPS guidance.
Pipelines Get Adult Supervision…Private Equity

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Simon Lack
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Sunday, June 23, 2019 9:20 AM EST
One solution to poor capital allocation decisions is to favor public companies with a significant private equity investor. Many energy companies could benefit from greater financial discipline.
Why Did Enloe State Bank Fail?

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Nate Tobik
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Sunday, June 2, 2019 5:46 AM EST
I rarely write about failures, but the failure of Enloe State Bank is fascinating, and after a little digging I'm convinced there's a lot more here than meets the eye.