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622225http://www.feedburner.comStrickland Sings a New Tunetag:typepad.com,2003:post-552307782008-09-06T16:46:13-04:002008-09-06T20:46:13Z2008-09-06T20:46:13ZThe Democratic Governor of Ohio has an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal entitled "Don't Believe the Doomsayers (sic). Ohio's Economy is Doing Fine". He notes that the press, covering the presidential race, has made the Ohio out to be...Joe BusinessFreddic Mac's Capped Votingtag:typepad.com,2003:post-552038662008-09-05T19:51:06-04:002008-09-05T23:51:23Z2008-09-05T23:51:06ZFreddie Mac has just changed its capped shareholder voting bylaw that disables any shareholder from voting over 20 percent of the outstanding voting stock unless the others shareholders vote to allow it. The voting cap discouraged takeovers and thereby protected...Joe BusinessOmnicare of "Questionable Continued Vitality"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-551471642008-09-04T15:56:18-04:002008-09-04T19:56:32Z2008-09-04T19:56:18ZThe Omnicare case is of "questionable continued vitality" notes a new opinion from the Delaware Chancery Court. In Optima v WCI Steel, the Chancery Court refused to apply Omnicare to block a deal between Severstal and WCI in the face...Joe BusinessRyan v Lyondell "Clarification" tag:typepad.com,2003:post-550852602008-09-03T14:16:28-04:002008-09-03T18:31:06Z2008-09-03T18:16:28ZIn denying a motion for an interlocutory appeal of, Vice Chancellor Noble, explained his early July 29th opinion denying summary judgment to the defendants in the case. The company, Lyondell Chemical, had a 102(b)(7) charter amendment in place. The Court...Joe BusinessBartels Book Makes Classic Mistake in Logictag:typepad.com,2003:post-550696002008-09-03T09:51:38-04:002008-09-05T22:47:19Z2008-09-03T13:51:38ZThe left is pushing a book by Larry M. Bartels entitled "Unequal Democracy" to argue that Democrats are better for the economy than are Republicans. Bartels, a professor of political science at Princeton, is a formidable critic. He notes, among...Joe BusinessNocera on Ichan at XOtag:typepad.com,2003:post-549770562008-09-01T12:01:32-04:002008-09-01T16:01:45Z2008-09-01T16:01:32ZJoe Nocera of the New York Times went after Carl Ichan's management of XO Communications in Saturday's business section. He sided with an unhappy hedge fund R2 that had invested in XO. Ichan bought control of the company when it...Joe BusinessUS v Stein: The Second Circuit Weighs In With a Terrible Opiniontag:typepad.com,2003:post-548805382008-08-29T11:52:43-04:002008-08-29T15:53:30Z2008-08-29T15:52:43ZThe Second Circuit has affirmed, in a 3-0 decision, Judge Kaplan's dismissal of criminal indictments against 13 KPMG employees on the grounds that the Justice Department violated their right to counsel. Consider how hard the court had to stretch to...Joe BusinessRule 2a-7 and Independent Directorstag:typepad.com,2003:post-548730422008-08-29T09:09:09-04:002008-08-29T13:09:18Z2008-08-29T13:09:09ZThe SEC has proposed dropping the requirement that boards of money market funds purchase only securities rating by licensed rating agencies. The boards themselves have lobbied against the change -- their argument -- we are too dumb to handle the...Joe Business2nd Q GDP Shows Growthtag:typepad.com,2003:post-548162362008-08-28T13:55:12-04:002008-08-28T17:58:06Z2008-08-28T17:55:12ZThe figures for the GDP growth for the second quarter (April to June 2008) are in, and they show growth of 3.3 percent. On the heels of a 1st quarter of .9 percent growth, it appears that our economy, which...Joe BusinessSEC Announcement on Accounting Rules: We are Going Internationaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-548058722008-08-28T10:14:54-04:002008-08-28T14:15:04Z2008-08-28T14:14:54ZI must admit, I did not expect the SEC announcement today that it had proposed a rule that encourages and may even require all United States companies to follow international accounting rules by 2014. This is a major policy change....Joe Business