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One of Wall Street’s Finest, Indeed
at 2006-01-23 19:43:09
I make fun of those I call “Wall Street’s Finest”—the brokerage firm employees who call themselves “analysts”—so frequently that it might appear I have no use for any analyst working for any brokerage firm anywhere.
This, of course, is not true.
I started on Wall Street as just such an anal
Source - http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2006/01/one-of-wall-streets-fi...
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A Stopped Watch Gets Google Right
at 2006-01-23 19:43:09
We believe Google continues to be a highly innovative company and a market leader. However, we are concerned that Google lacks a sustainable competitive advantage.
—Scott Devitt
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“Vince, It Looks Like Jim and Larry are Going All In! Incredible!”
at 2006-01-23 19:43:09
Mr. Tobin suggested a dramatic new offer at $78 a share -- then headed out to a Rolling Stones concert… —Wall Street Journal
Thus the CEO of Boston Scientific raises the price of his company’s bid for Guidant by $1.5 billion, and then goes out to see Mick and Keith play “Satisfaction” for the zillionth ti
Source - http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2006/01/vince-it-looks-like-ji...
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What Else is He Hiding?
at 2006-01-23 19:43:09
Bob Ney is a Congressman, described in today’s New York Times as “until recently…an obscure, sometimes eccentric, lawmaker from Ohio.”
He also—judging by the color headshot of the Congressman in the paper just below the fold—wears a wig.
I point this out not to make fun of the Congressman in
Source - http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2006/01/what-else-is-he-hiding...
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Weekend Edition: “Friends of Animals” Have an Appetite for Destruction
at 2006-01-23 19:43:09
Long-time readers may have gathered that I’m a bird-watcher, a serious one.
But I’ve only half-followed a controversy between our local utility, United Illuminating, which wants to get rid of stray monk parakeets and their large nests for the sake of maintaining the power lines, and the so-called “Friends of Animals,�
Source - http://jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com/2006/01/weekend-edition-friend...
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