Red and I are officially throwing our hats in the ring as co-governors of the Massachusetts branch of Red Sox Nation. I have no idea what that really means, other than we might get to rub elbows with Remdawg, carry DO's bags to his car, or make sure there
I LOVED this guy. Not only was he a fantastic professor, but he re-scheduled our midterm when it fell on the night SU was playing for the National Championship.
it was Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s that set the credit standards that determined which loans Wall Street could repackage and, ultimately, which borrowers would qualify. Effectively, they did the job that was expected of banks and government regulato
Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest, has been hit by the global credit crunch so badly that it has issued a memorandum to senior executives telling them that brothel visits and adult channels in hotel rooms cannot be claimed on expenses.
Unfortunately, the United States just had its own disturbing flirtation with blocking "sensitive" search terms: POPLINE, the world's largest database on reproductive planning (including some 360,000 articles on subjects like fertility and family planning)
Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy. To hide their lack of any actual ideas about what to do, managers sometimes make a big show of re
How badly have brewers been hurting for hops? Some in the industry suggest the shortage has reached levels the likes of which haven't been seen since the late 19th century.
the Fed today announced that it would lend $200 billion to banks and other financial firms, accepting mortgage backed securities as collateral. This is effectively the same as saying that the Fed is going to lend money to banks and accept the counterfeit
I do not care how much these banks donate to campaigns.. there is no sane argument for not improving the regulation on these greedy, irresponsible bastards.