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Weiyi Lim and Inyoung Hwang Bloomberg 2/4/2014 …Strategists from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to AMP Capital Investors and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are also telling clients to hang on after losses that began with currencies in Turkey and Argentina spread to developed markets. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 2.3 percent yesterday, capping its […] February 17th, 2014 | Tags: "Soros put", AMP Capital Investors, Argentina, Bank of America, billionaires, currency collapse, hedge funds, JP Morgan Chase, Soros Fund Management, stocks, Treasury bonds, Turkey, U.S. Dollar, Wall Street | Category: Agriculture and Food Production, Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Economy, George Soros, Goldman Sachs | Comments are closed
Christopher Warfel Letters to the Editor The Providence Journal 2/4/2013 I was recently elected to the Town Council of Block Island. My nearly 30 years of professional work has been in conventional- and renewable-energy production and use. My master’s thesis involved the application of wind technology to produce drinking water by desalination. I have worked […] February 7th, 2013 | Tags: Christopher Warfel, crony capitalism, Deepwater Wind, Governor Donald Carcieri, hedge funds, renewable energy, wind farms | Category: Economy, Energy, Rhode Island, TAKE ACTION!, Taxes | Comments are closed
Matthew Boyle The Daily Caller 9/5/2012 Emails obtained by The Daily Caller show that former senior Treasury Department officials who orchestrated the 2009 auto industry bailout enriched their former employers and likely made personal financial gains from parts of the deal they negotiated. At issue is the termination of pension plans belonging to 20,000 non-union […] September 5th, 2012 | Tags: bailout, crony capitalism, Delphi Salaried Retiree Association (DSRA), Elliott Capital Management, Ethics Pledge, Executive order, General Motors, Harry Wilson, hedge funds, Matt Feldman, Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation (PBGC), Rep. Mike Turner, Ron Bloom, Silver Point Capital, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner | Category: Barack Obama, corruption, Ethics, Fascism, Federal spending, Treasury Department, Unions | Comments are closed
Brian Dowling The Hartford Courant 8/15/2012 The world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates of Westport, announced an ambitious expansion plan Wednesday that includes building a new headquarters and nearly doubling its staff in the next decade, all with generous state help — up to $115 million of forgivable loans, grants and tax credits. The company’s […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: Bridgewater Associates, corporate welfare, cronyism, First Five, Gov. Dannel Malloy, hedge funds, subsidies, tax credits | Category: Banking and finance, Connecticut, Taxes | Comments are closed
Peter Lattman and Azam Ahmed DealBook 6/15/2012 Rajat K. Gupta, the retired head of the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and a former Goldman Sachs board member, was found guilty on Friday of conspiracy and securities fraud for leaking boardroom secrets to a billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the most prominent corporate executive convicted […] June 15th, 2012 | Tags: Democrats, Galleon Group, hedge funds, insider trading, McKinsey & Company, Procter & Gamble, Raj Rajaratnam, Rajat K. Gupta | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Crime, FBI, Goldman Sachs, New York | Comments are closed
Obama hasn’t a leg to stand on. But that doesn’t stop him from claiming that government is the answer to this made up problem. Bruce McQuain Conservative Commune 4/18/2012 I could pretty much stop there and say the title tells you the story. Obama knows high gas prices are not good for his […] April 18th, 2012 | Tags: bailouts, blame, commodity markets, Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid car, gasoline prices, hedge funds, lay-offs, speculators, T2 Partners, Vice President Joe Biden, Whitney Tilson | Category: Banking and finance, Barack Obama, Delaware, Elections, Energy, Government regulations, Politics, Progressives, TARP, Taxes | Comments are closed
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