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Palin shoots the media
in Sox First, on July 7, 2009
... speculating whether her resignation was about averting an investigation into whether she embezzled funds. Now, Palin has hit back on Twitter : "Critics are spinning, so hang in there as they f...
Headache Online Tool: Headache U
in Straightfromthedoc, on July 4, 2009
...fort to keep programs like Headache U going, NHF has recently launched an endeavor to help raise funds for future programs.
To check out the details, and to learn more about Headache U, simply visit...
The Goldman Sachs-Rolling Stone slugfest
in Sox First, on July 3, 2009
...tment bank to a bank-holding company, a move that allowed it access not only to $10 billion in TARP funds, but to a whole other publicly backed funding, including lending from the discount window of t...
ExxonMobil funds climate sceptics
in Sox First, on July 2, 2009
Fascinating to read the report of scientists warning Congress about "climate alarmism". It's fascinating because the crew includes retired manager for strategic planning at ExxonMobil Roger Cohen. Are ExxonMobil's footprints all over this? Maybe, when The Guardian reveals ...
July 8: China Cleantech Business Forum
in China Venture News, on June 30, 2009
...h business conference.
Cleantech is a growing industry focus for venture capital and development funds: Despite the current credit crisis, overall fundraising for cleantech has remained steady in 20...
Madoff gets the max! What now?
in Sox First, on June 30, 2009
...f to "clean" their cash. On paper, they "invest" huge sums in capital in Madoff funds in return for 10% a year in dividends. But only the 10%, plus fees for Madoff, are transferred...
Stimulus packages create corruption opportunities
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ll need to make the processes as transparent as possible and make sure they're providing enough funds for the watchdogs. And officials overseeing these projects will need to be rewarded on the out...
Survival strategies for a deepening recession
in Sox First, on June 23, 2009
...ght be opportunities for growth. Don't cut the marketing budget, hold on to the talent and keep investing in R&D....
Mafia cashes in on crisis
in Sox First, on June 19, 2009
... month, Bloomberg reported about the mafia's money laundering and using its hoard of cash for investing and lending money to those who can't get it from the banks. As reported here , Italy...
Does Obama's patchwork overhaul go far enough?
in Sox First, on June 18, 2009
...d ultimately destructive side bets that financial institutions make. And finally, advisers of hedge funds whose assets exceed a certain size will be required to register with the Securities and Exchan...
Hedge Funds Up & Social Media Footprint Expansion
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on June 16, 2009
... " Hedge funds finished up 4.06% in May , capturing the largest monthly gains since February 2000." Oliver Schupp, President of Credit Suisse Index, said, "Emerging Markets funds wer...
Throwing the book at Madoff
in Sox First, on June 16, 2009
...ard these people have been hurt by the crime. Consider this: "We are in our mid 60s and began investing directly with Madoff in 1993 after he had been investigated by the SEC. Madoff's crime...
Unemployment: are the numbers lying?
in Sox First, on June 14, 2009
So unemployment in the US has jumped to 9.4% but are the numbers telling us the truth? Is unemployment actually worse than what the statisticians are telling us? As reported here , consultant John Williams says the number of unemployed in the US is actually more like 20%, which takes it up t...
NIKA Water: Helping Body and Soul
in Straightfromthedoc, on June 12, 2009
...ne their cumulative experience and knowledge to help solve global problems. The group personally funds all of NIKA's startup costs and, in a display of altruism, will realize no compensation or ec...
MGB-GT, Yours for Just $20 in Museum Charity Raffle
in Classical Drives, on June 12, 2009
...for the Preservation of British Transportation in America. A non-profit organisation, it is raising funds for a building to permanently house the museum in the Dayton, Ohio area. The building will hav...
Social entrepreneurship: A three decade history
in Audeamus - How dare we..., on May 31, 2009
...g an overview of social entrepreneurship initiatives done in the last 30 years. Leaders from Acumen Funds, Skoll Foundations and some entrepreneurs like Mohammad Yunus offer their point of views about...
Batteries Get Stimulus Grants
in IfEnergy, on May 27, 2009
... yesterday.
From the article: Candidates for the money are required to prove they already have the funds to cover half of their project costs. Winners will be announced in July and receive their allo...
Early retirement soars, but who is going to pay?
in Sox First, on May 26, 2009
... it to breaking point. As this report points out, the system only has so many reserves. Its trust funds are scheduled to run dry by 2037, which means people will be on severely reduced payments. And...
What's the next direction for CFOs?
in Sox First, on May 25, 2009
... their focus to getting the most out of the recovery. And because most companies are not flush with funds, it's going to be a tough job. According to the McKinsey Quarterly , CFOs will have to ...
National Venture Capital Association: Suggestions and Blind Spots
in TJ's Weblog, on May 25, 2009
...n on their investment in the new company. So the meager number of IPOs last year means that most VC funds aren't getting a return on their investment at the moment; their money is tied up in start...
Corporate social responsibility and recession
in Sox First, on May 15, 2009
...d here , sheds light on this question. It used an interactive tool called the Socially Responsible Investing Stock Screener, which ranks 500 of the country's largest companies according to five c...
Print Books Are Target of Pirates on the Web
in Wangtam, on May 13, 2009
...or - MarketRiders
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Downturn easing without recovery
in Sox First, on May 12, 2009
...g through: the Fed's measures and government guarantees mean that banks have access to low-cost funds, and lending rates are high. If nothing nasty happens - losses on mortgages, commercial real e...
Bankroll blues
in Sox First, on May 7, 2009
...07. Countrywide was acquired by Bank of America which received $45 billion in troubled asset relief funds from the US government. Maybe that was just payback. After all, Countrywide according to this ...
The next accounting battle
in Sox First, on May 3, 2009
...re one of the reasons the markets went into meltdown. Using borrowed money, investment banks, hedge funds and commercial banks made reckless bets. They created and sold exotic investment vehicles few ...
Lost American Marques: Hupmobile
in Classical Drives, on May 1, 2009
...gant and was given the name " Skylark ." Unfortunately the company was, by then, out of funds, having failed to get relief from the city of Detroit for unpaid taxes.
Hupmobile had one las...
HedgeCo.Net Spring Manager Showcase on Wed next week
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 26, 2009
HedgeCo.Net and HedgeCo Securities is holding the Spring 2009 Manager Showcase. This event is open to all accredited HedgeCo.Net members and will profile some of the leading fund managers.
This will also be a good time to meet the HedgeCo staff and to ask them any questions you have about ...
The Pirate Google
in Wangtam, on April 25, 2009
...Phones
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Sun, Oracle, WordPress, and MySQL
in Wangtam, on April 23, 2009
...ne
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Another sucker's rally
in Sox First, on April 22, 2009
Should we read anything into the gyrations of the Dow Jones industrial average? Should we take heart when the market starts trading higher? If the experts are right, it's just a sucker's rally. As Dr Doom, Nouriel Roubini told Steve Forbes in this interview , the extent of the contract...
Hedge Funds in the Cayman Islands
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 21, 2009
...oday hosting its inaugural Webinar on the highly topical subject of 'Managing Distressed Cayman Funds and lessons learned for new funds'.
"This fits in perfectly with our firm's pro...
TARP fraud investigations
in Sox First, on April 21, 2009
... looking at how the TARP cop Neil Barofsky bemoaning the lack of accountability for the bailout funds being put up by US taxpayers. Clearly, the system is open to fraud and now we have the Los A...
chinaSMACK | Hot Internet Stories, Pictures, & Videos in China
in Wangtam, on April 20, 2009
...arter?
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Small Wind: GE Is Investing
in IfEnergy, on April 16, 2009
CNET reported earlier this month that GE is sinking money into wind power. But it's not the big super-turbines, it's small personal wind turbines that GE is focusing on. Southwest Windpower, which makes residential wind turbines, said on Monday it has raised $10 million from existing inves...
New Hedge Fund Manager at SilkInvest
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 15, 2009
FSA regulated specialist asset management firm, Silk Invest Ltd, has hired John Bates, former Head of Credit Research Africa at investment bank Renaissance Capital, to spearhead its move into Frontier Fixed Income, an emergent hedge fund asset class.
"We will offer a liquid Frontier M...
IPOs: don't blame Sarbox
in Sox First, on April 15, 2009
...etail investors hold less than 30% of publicly traded shares with the remainder held through mutual funds, hedge funds and other institutional investors. Which, as Davidoff implies, makes the argument...
Super Mario Chess Collector's Edition
in Wangtam, on April 14, 2009
Super Mario Chess Collector's Edition
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Mikeyy Twitter XSS Mutates & Continues to Attack
'Hyperlocal' Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers
Deconstructing Apple's Tiny iPod Shuffle
Read It Later: iPhone and iPod Touch App
Is a high IQ a burden as much as...
VC Fund Raising Drops Dramatically
in TJ's Weblog, on April 13, 2009
...ureBeat , TechCrunch , PE Hub ) have been covering the story.
The numbers are stark. Only 40 VC funds raised money at all in the first quarter of 2009. A year ago 71 VC funds raised money during th...
Venture Capitalists' Confidence Creeps Back
in Wangtam, on April 8, 2009
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The Panic of 2008-09
in Sox First, on April 7, 2009
...compares the conditions to the Panics of 1837, 1857, 1873, 1893, and 1907 where depositors withdrew funds and hoarded cash, where banks lost confidence in one another driving up the price of their raw...
Two Equity Fund Launches
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on April 6, 2009
...tage of liquidity opportunities.
Full story; Hedge Fund Manager Silk Invest Launches Two Equity Funds
...
Bailout funds sink without a trace
in Sox First, on April 6, 2009
Last week, I did a blog entry bemoaning the lack of oversight into the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) bailouts. Some of the banks have not been able to say where the money has gone. Now, the US Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has come out with a neat item tallying up the TARP ...
Bailouts total $3 trillion with no oversight
in Sox First, on April 2, 2009
...responses - complaints that it was impractical or impossible for banks to detail how they used TARP funds were unfounded. While some banks indicated that they had procedures for monitoring their use o...
Geithner's push for power and the law of unexpected outcomes
in Sox First, on March 26, 2009
...orting that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is moving to tighten up the rules for monster hedge funds, private- equity firms and derivatives markets, it's worth looking at what's ahead and...
Welcome, Tuz!
in HackITLinux, on March 21, 2009
...hich was held in Tasmania and where the show's annual charity auction was dedicated to raising funds to research devil facial tumor disease ( DFTD )," writes Network World's John Fonta...
The Death of SpiralFrog
in P2P File Sharing, on March 21, 2009
...t year, the company issued secured notes in order to borrow at least $9 million from several hedge funds and others."
"The New York-based company launched in 2006, and a year ago claimed t...
A Time to Invest
in Celebrate Wine, on March 17, 2009
...world of wine. And the more expensive the wine, the tougher things are. Whether you're actually investing (and I'm not giving investment advice here) or just looking for good buys, this is the...
Obama Set to Help Small Business
in Biz Plan Hacks, on March 16, 2009
... Monday to make it easier for small business owners to borrow money, using $730 million in stimulus funds to cut lending fees, boost loan guarantees and expand other programs, officials said.
"W...
Will Health Care Reform Affect Outsourcing?
in The Outsourcing Weblog, on March 15, 2009
...is site uncomfortable. However, he also makes a very interesting point about the way that the U.S. funds its own social safety net, and how that funding creates additional pressure for outsourcing/off...
Climate change deniers on the increase
in Sox First, on March 13, 2009
...alist website, the 50 or so thinktanks linked to this conference between them have received $47m in funds over the years from Exxon and the Koch and Scaife families, who are the leading patrons of con...
Things I Should Have Blogged About...
in Bizinformer, on March 10, 2009
...ink that theirs is in good working order, though.
On March 5th, The Good, Bad, and Ugly in Hedge Funds: A Manager's View . An insightful piece by a hedge fund manager.
On March 4th, PC Indus...
Palm to Offer Stock While Finalizing The Pre
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on March 9, 2009
...stock will first be used to pay off the $49 million owed to Elevations Partners while the remaining funds will go back to Palm to help fatten up its cash position in these tough economic times.
This ...
GM - too big to fail?
in Sox First, on March 7, 2009
...9;s Harris would agree. But maybe that's wishful thinking. How much more money can the US keep investing in a company that's going nowhere?...
Oliver Wight launches fast track offerings for supply chain improvement
in Supplychainer, on February 28, 2009
...u look at the consulting market for supply chain today, you clearly see that many companies are not investing in big transformational projects but tend to spend money on quick cost reduction work. So ...
Auto catastrophe
in Sox First, on February 27, 2009
...tors has lost billions more than we expected with its latest result . The question is whether the funds from the US Government keeping the company going is throwing good money after bad. There is a ...
WagerLog: Track Your Gambling Stats
in Wangtam, on February 26, 2009
...hnologies Mine the Web More Deeply
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Hedge Fund Fat Tuesday Networking Event
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 21, 2009
...tworking Event is sponsered by the Hedge Fund Association among others and the proceeds go to Hedge Funds Care.
The event is being held at Nikki Beach 151 East 50th Street, New York City, NY
Sign...
The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris
in Sox First, on February 19, 2009
...he global financial system will be in catastrophe. And the global banks, investment banks and hedge funds have become part of a giant Ponzi scheme. Morris writes: "In effect, they have built a h...
Bad Money by Kevin Phillips
in Sox First, on February 17, 2009
...finance buccaneers given how they heavily it was funded by financial services firms including hedge funds. "In Republican and Democratic national politics, the notion of a breath of fresh air ha...
WOWIO: Free Ebooks, Comics and Graphic Novels
in Wangtam, on February 13, 2009
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Trust crashes
in Sox First, on February 13, 2009
...s. Alarmingly, the study also found that US Government intervention had left 80% less confident of investing in the market. Three out of four admitted they had lost confidence as a result of recent f...
How the Recession is Shaping Up
in Biz Plan Hacks, on February 12, 2009
A few days ago I looked at job losses in this recession and talked about the difficult task of predicting sales. I used a chart from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that showed real job losses in the 1990, 2001 and current recessions. I thought I'd create a little more context with this new cha...
House And Senate Agree On The Economic Stimulus Package
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 11, 2009
...billion tax cut and stimulus package has a little something for everyone and it is hoped that these funds will result in 4,000,000 jobs being created or saved.
Check out the details here .
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IMF risks running out of cash
in Sox First, on February 9, 2009
...ough resources." That means the IMF is likely to be knocking on the doors of sovereign wealth funds. The IMF has also indicated that things are getting worse, with the world's advanced econ...
Barack Obama's Stimulus Package Passes Senate Test Vote
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 9, 2009
... a step closer to adoption after Democrats and Republicans each gave in somewhat so the much needed funds can be approved quickly.
Here are the latest details .
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E.U. At Odds With America Over "Buy American" Rules
in Exclusive from our news room , on February 4, 2009
...m of bail out money to American manufacturers.
The current rules governing qualifying for bail out funds includes provisions insuring that American made steel, for example, is used by manufacturers w...
AOL 宣布裁员 700 人
in Wangtam, on February 3, 2009
TC 消息 ， AOL CEO Randy Falco 上周在致全体员工的备忘录中表示，受经济衰退的影响，公司将裁员 700 人。
Falco 在备忘录中称公司将裁员 700 人，占员工总数的 10%。同时还将冻结 2009 年全年的加薪计划。"全球经济衰退已经影响到每一个角落，包括我们自己。" Falco 表示。
本月初， AOL 的母公司时代华纳其 2008 年的营收预期下调了 3.7 亿美元，这意味着其旗下 AOL 的广告营收同比下降了 18%，大约为 6400 万美元。
上周，Google 承认其于 2005 年收购 AOL 5% 股份已成为一笔亏本生...
Russian Investments and Hedge Funds
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 3, 2009
The 11 year period of January 1998 through December 2008, which encompasses two market meltdowns and many other mini-crises, the Pharos Russia Fund has returned a total of 100.33%, against a gain of only 3.81% for the MSCI Russia Index.
"Our long history in the Russian financial mark...
Credis Suisse sheds light on hedge fund failure
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on February 2, 2009
...istory Books: Hedge Fund Performance in 2008′, a review of the factors which contributed to hedge funds' dismal -19% return in 2008.
The report discusses the impact of events such as the fall of...
Bailout transparency problems continue
in Sox First, on January 31, 2009
...various programs work together to fulfill TARP's purposes or how it will use the remaining TARP funds." The report also says there continue to be problems with hiring for oversight of the pr...
