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How To Manage BYOD In A GRC World
Article By:
John Slater
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:03 PM EDT
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) has been a catalyst for a new IT revolution. CNET TechRepublic’s BYOD Business Strategy Survey reveals that 62 percent of companies either allow Bring Your Own Device, or plan to by the end of 2013.
Elizabeth Warren Makes Public Appeal For Student Debt Restructure
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Global Economic Intersection
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014 7:53 AM EDT
Last summer legislation was signed into law that lowered the interest rates for new student loans to current market rates.
How Institutional Defects Get Ignored: The GM – And Lehman Reports By Valukas
Article By:
Lee Adler
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Friday, June 6, 2014 9:42 AM EDT
Law has one lucrative growth area – preparing reports for a corporation on the misdeeds of the corporation. Anton Valukas, head of the defense firm Jenner & Black, is now famous for the “Valukas” reports for Lehman and GM. Here's what Valukas got wrong...
In this article: GM
Executive Pay With Equity Awards: It Takes A Buffett To Push This Agenda
Article By:
Bankers Anonymous
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Thursday, May 1, 2014 8:35 PM EDT
Certain executive pay packages which result from stock or stock option awards are ridiculous. Rather than matching “pay to performance” as proponents claim, the equity awards to executives often create absurd payouts for bad performance, or substitute lucky timing for skill. Warren Buffet agrees.
Podcast: All The President's Bankers With Nomi Prins
Podcast By:
Ellen Brown
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Monday, April 28, 2014 4:14 PM EDT
Ellen’s guest this week is renowned banking guru Nomi Prins. Nomi discloses the longstanding personal and political ties between Washington and Wall Street that have enabled the concentration of global wealth into the hands of a few. (Audio Length 58:46).
Bill Moyers On The American Oligarchy
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Larry Doyle
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Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:17 PM EDT
Prior to correcting a problem, one needs to identify and expose it. That said, bringing about real change is challenging when the interests of those charged with protecting and promoting the public interest are outweighed by their personal pursuits and willingness to trade their position for payoffs.
Insider Trading By Two Friends Ahead Of Impending Acquisition
Article By:
Global Economic Intersection
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Friday, April 4, 2014 3:59 AM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged two friends with insider trading on confidential information from an investment banker about an impending transaction between engineering and construction companies.
Transamerica Financial Advisors Improperly Calculating Advisory Fees And Overcharging Clients
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Global Economic Intersection
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Thursday, April 3, 2014 11:19 AM EDT
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced charges against a St. Petersburg, Fla.-based financial services firm for improperly calculating advisory fees and overcharging clients. Transamerica failed to process every aggregation request by clients and also had conflicting policies on whether representatives were required to pass on to clients the savings from breakpoint discounts.
Office Of Outgoing JPMorgan Asia CEO Raided By Hong Kong's Commission Against Corruption
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Sunday, March 30, 2014 9:09 AM EDT
It just hasn't been JPMorgan's year. The bank which has been on a steady downward slope when it comes to paying billions in quarterly "non-recurring, one-time" legal settlements and charges, has just had its latest incident.
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A List Of 97 Taxes Americans Pay Every Year
Article By:
Michael Snyder
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Monday, March 24, 2014 4:57 PM EDT
Americans will spend more than 7 billion hours preparing their taxes and will hand over more than four trillion dollars to federal, state and local governments. Americans will fork over nearly 30 percent of what they earn to pay their income taxes, but that is only a small part of the story.
Guest Post: Oil Limits And The Economy - One Story; Not Two
Article By:
Tyler Durden
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Sunday, March 23, 2014 12:00 PM EDT
While the press treats economic problems and oil-related problems as separate stories, they are in fact very closely connected, related to the fact that we are reaching limits in many different directions simultaneously.
The Student Loan Bubble
Article By:
James Quinn
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 7:13 PM EDT
“If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks…will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered...The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”
Thomas Jefferson in the debate over the Re-charter of the Bank Bill (1809)
The Bitter Medicine Of Quantitative Easing
Article By:
Sober Look
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 6:57 PM EDT
Since this is not a "controlled" experiment in which we can compare a patient taking experimental medication with the one taking a placebo, there is no way to tell if the therapy had worked.
Ignorance, Sometimes Better Than Bliss
Article By:
Dr. Paul Price
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Monday, March 10, 2014 6:54 PM EDT
Wall Street has many ways to screw customers.
Read on to see how some muni bond buyers were turned in patsies.
International Banks Under Pressure
Article By:
Sober Look
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Saturday, March 1, 2014 9:30 PM EDT
The paper is the first to raise the possibility that the five banks overseeing the century-old rate -- Barclays Plc, Deutsche Bank AG, Bank of Nova Scotia, HSBC Holdings Plc and Societe Generale SA -- may have been actively working together to manipulate the benchmark.