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Queen Mary is revolting
nakedshorts.typepad.com - 2/5/2009
Queen Mary is revolting
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After watching the Cox-era cretins who constitute her senior staff pilloried at yesterday’s House Financial Services Committee Madoff hearing, US Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Schapiro suddenly feigns interest. Dear Chairman Kanjorski and Ranking Member Garrett: Today’s ...
Queen Mary, comic for the ages
nakedshorts.typepad.com - 2/9/2009
Queen Mary, comic for the ages
— nakedshorts.typepad.com — Mary Schapiro gave her first speech as chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington... DC today, stepping out as quite the cut-up at the Practicing Law Institute’s 2009 ‘SEC Speaks’ conference. Thank you for that kind ... (more) Queen Mary, comic for the ages

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reuters.com - 2/6/2009
SEC chief says agency to act like hair is on fire | U.S.
— reuters.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission took steps on Friday to... reinvigorate the agency's policing of Wall Street, two days after a congressional hearing chastised SEC investigators for failing to uncover Bernard ... (more) SEC chief says agency to act like hair is on ...

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Madoff Tipster Markopolos Cites SEC’s ‘Ineptitude’ (Update3)
bloomberg.com - 2/4/2009
Madoff Tipster Markopolos Cites SEC’s ‘Ineptitude’ (Update3)
— bloomberg.com — Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Harry Markopolos , a former money manager who sought to convince regulators for... nine years that Bernard Madoff was a fraud, said the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission suffers from “investigative ineptitude.” Markopolos ... (more) Madoff Tipster Markopolos Cites SEC’s ‘Ineptitude’ ...

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Abnormal Returns — ... pace.  (Clusterstock) Don’t waste too much time thinking about the executive compensation cap.  (Clusterstock) Where was the outrage over executive compensation prior to all this?  (footnoted.org) A simple approach on how to spend TARP II.  (Big Picture) Tales of incompetence:  FINRA vs. the SEC.  (NakedShorts) An interview with Robert Barro.  ( ...

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