US election: 'When your name is Barack Hussein Obama, getting elected is difficult' The Daily Telegraph Prejudice among some American voters will make it difficult for President Barack Obama to win re-election, he has suggested. | The remarks were made on ABC's The View Photo: AFP/GETTY | 7:57PM BST 15 May 2012 | Asked during a television interview how close he expected the result of November's p...
Dimon pushes Blankfein off hotseat at charity gala Reuters | NEW YORK May 15 (Reuters) - For the first time in months, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein was off the hotseat. | As Wall Street's biggest hedge fund managers and top bankers flocked to a charity gala in New York Monday night, the buzz was all about JPMorgan Chase & Co's disastrous trading losses...
Wall Street's arrogance shows need to be regulated Gulf News | One of the characters in the classic 1939 film Stagecoach is a banker named Gatewood who lectures his captive audience on the evils of big government, especially bank regulation — "As if we bankers don't know how to run our own banks!&qu...
Sen. Ron Johnson delivers weekly GOP address - Obama grew debt, not economy The Examiner | In the weekly GOP address, Wisconsin's U.S. Ron Johnson takes the president to task for the failed Obama economic policies: | "We are all disappointed by the failure of President Obama’s economic policies… His budget busting stimulus plan grew ...
Skylight shines in Sondheim's 'Sunday in the Park With George' Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Connect the dots to create a picture that makes sense. That's what Georges Seurat challenged us to do when viewing his paintings. It's what each of us must do when looking at our lives. | Put the two together and you get "Sunday in the Park With...
US elections: Why does the world's greatest democracy offer just two choices? The Daily Telegraph Voters are bored of both Republicans and Democrats, but a Pop Idol-style contest to find an alternative candidate has also failed to excite, writes Mark McKinnon | Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney Photo: Edward Linsmier/Getty Image...
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Is Mark Zuckerberg grown up enough to run a $100 billion company? Herald Tribune | Mark Zuckerberg is ready for his close-up. | His audience this Monday morning, a Who's Who of Wall Street heavy-hitters, with untold billions to command, shifts in its seats. Pap...
Why Can't Obama Bring Wall Street to Justice? The Daily Beast May 6, 2012 1:38 PM EDT | Despite his populist posturing, the president has failed to pin a single top finance exec on criminal charges since the economic collapse. Are the banks t...
Zuckerberg cashes in News24 San Francisco - Facebook's debut on Wall Street will make 27-year-old co-founder Mark Zuckerberg a multi-billionaire, with firm control of the world's leading online social network...
Bermuda has sand and sunshine - with just a hint of smugness The Daily Telegraph Bermuda isn't hip, nor does it need to be. It secured its paradise status in the 17th century, says Nigel Tisdall. | Image 1 of 3 Shaped like a hook, Bermuda is slightly smaller than Guernsey and has the feel of a misplaced Chan...
JPMorgan loss leads to Fed inquiry into bank deposits DNA India | US regulators are investigating how Wall Street banks invest their excess deposits in the wake of JP Morgan's $2 billion (£1.3 billion) trading loss. | The New York Federal Reserve, the arm of the central bank that regulates Wall Street banks, is s...
Amid apparent rift, kin mourn Mary Kennedy Austin American Statesman | BEDFORD, N.Y. — Mary Richardson Kennedy had been close to the Kennedys for much of her life, as a teenage friendship led to a marriage into one of America's most famous families. | But her death stirred tension between her relatives and the K...
US Dollar Makes A Break To 16-Month Highs As Fear Creeps In The Street | US Dollar Makes a Break to 16-Month Highs as Fear Creeps In | Fundamental Forecast for the US Dollar: Bullish CPI and retail sales do little to alter the outlook for rates and growth The 10-year Treasury Yield pushes towards a fresh record low, shrinking the dollar’s return USDollar breaks to a 16-month high | Though the benchmark currency ...
Report: Nokia loses cellphone top spot to Samsung The Washington Times | HELSINKI (AP) - Nokia has been bumped off its 14-year top spot as the world’s largest cellphone company by Samsung, according to a British research firm. | Gartner said Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. sold 86.6 million cellphones in the first quarter, inching past Nokia Corp’s sales of just over 83 million units. | Apple Inc. s...
