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New York Times editorial asks Congress to "Show us Hope" as 12 million households or 1 in 6 mortgages go under water.
10/02/2008
NYT laments the lack of anything to give hope to homeowners in the $700 billion bailout plan. So do Feldstein and Hubbard both Republican Presidential advisors of reagan and Bush.
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New York Times 10/02/2008
Housing Pain Gauge: Nearly 1 in 6 Owners 'Under Water'Wall Street Journal 10/08/2008
Roche's bid for complete ownership of Genentech.
07/22/2008
Can the long standing independent operation of Genentech's discovery team under Levinson be maintained under the effort to integrate Genetech more into Roche. Will it result in synergies removing "a Chinese wall" as a head of Roche R&D puts it or will it lead to the loss of key members of the team over time especially as they were not brought into the discussion process about this move leaving them in confusion.
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Roche's Big Hurdle with Genentech
BusinessWeek 07/24/2008
Roche Bid Blindsided GenentechWall Street Journal 07/22/2008
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01/23/2008
EU's proposed change by 2013 would require companies to buy emissions permits. Previously under Kyoto Protocal rules these permits were first handed out free and then bought by the heavy polluters in a carbon market.
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Wall Street Journal 01/23/2008
U.S. Given Poor Marks on the EnvironmentNew York Times 01/23/2008
The change at Delphi Automotive under Rodney O'Neal
01/07/2008
A very different company from the GM years. O'Neal accomplishes the difficult task of renewal at Delphi.
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Wall Street Journal 01/07/2008
Delphi Focuses on Markets for Green and Safe TechnologyWall Street Journal 12/05/2011
Increasing scruiny in the pharmaceutical industry
05/29/2007
Drug companies come under intense scrutiny with a chairperson of a House Committe with FDA funding oversight comparing the drug industry to the tobacco industry. Scrutiny from medical journals, congress, the media and public of controversial pricing practices, advertising, and presentation of internal study findings.
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Drug Companies Face Political, Scientific Attacks
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2008
Journalistic MalpracticeWall Street Journal 05/29/2007
China's budding aviation industry
10/27/2006
China developing manufacturing and assembly knowhow for regional jets and for larger planes working with western suppliers eager to get in on the growing demand for aircraft in CHina with hte market expected to grow at about 9% according to Boeing.
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Chinese Jetmaker Gets Western Help
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2008
Airbus Move to Build in China May Pose a Longer-Term Risk - WSJ.comWall Street Journal 10/27/2006
Sheila Barr voices concern about lack of serious homeowner help, only institutional help.
08/27/2008
FDIC's Sheila Barr voices concern for a lack of serious homeowner help and an incomprehensible reluctance to do anything serious for homeowners in Congress or the Bush Administration even as Barr, Paulson and Bernanke offered no choice to CEO's of leading banks at the meeting last week in Paulson's offices but to sign term sheets for accepting $125 billion from the government. Another $125 billion goes to smaller banks. And a unspecified amount goes to buy troubled assets under TARP, and money to buy commercial paper, and other institutional help. Still nothing on a large comprehensive basis to help homeowners in difficulty which is at the root of this crisis according to Feldstein, Hubbard, Bair.
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FDIC Chief Raps Rescue for Helping Banks Over Homeowners
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2008
Agency’s Head Expects Banking’s Crisis to WorsenNew York Times 08/27/2008
Leveraging of banks U.S. banks in 2012 under the U.S. Federal Reserve stress tests of March 2012 and the leveraging at the time of Lehman's collapse in 2008
07/16/2008
The high rate of leveraging of banks today compared to 2008, suggests that the U.S. Federal Reserve may have prematurely declared the banks safe, say experts.
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Stressing the Bank 'Stress Tests'
Wall Street Journal 03/14/2012
How Bad Will It Get on Wall Street?BusinessWeek 07/16/2008
The change at Dana under McCracken
01/07/2008
As Dana moves out of bankruptcy ahead of Delphi. Experienced executives join Dana.
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GM's Ex-Finance Chief To Be Chairman of Dana
Wall Street Journal 01/10/2008
Getting Back On the RoadWall Street Journal 01/07/2008
Reform of Pemex and the tax system in Mexico under Calderon
09/15/2007
Reform of Pemex is part of broad reforms and this includes a tax overhaul.
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Economist 12/19/2007
Mexico Enacts a Tax-Overhaul BillNew York Times 09/15/2007
Fiat's full ownership of Chrysler- management and business skills of Marchionne's team leads to valuable diversification (3)
11/10/2006
A win-win for the U.S., Chrysler, and Fiat, is the result of the remarkable business and management skills of Sergio Marchionne of Fiat. An integrated global company emerges for the first time under Marchionne's leadership. An outsider to the auto industry Marchionne looked for good business talent and younger managers not tied to old ways. He benchmarked Fiat products to Apple products in a innovative way only an outsider would do.
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BusinessWeek 11/10/2006
In Turnabout, Chrysler Profit Offsets Fiat LossWall Street Journal 07/31/2012
Major airlines take out less popular routes, fill planes, and retire aging aircraft.
06/05/2006
Striking change thats coming over the larger airlines as they take out gas guzzling planes, take out less popular routes and make a number of moves to increase the number of seats filled and regain pricing power in their markets.
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Major Airlines Fuel a Recovery By Grounding Unprofitable Flights
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2006
The elephants learn to danceEconomist 11/16/2006
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