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Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Quick note to let you know that comments on Michelle’s postings will remain in moderation while she’s on vacation. If you have a note about anything I post this week, please send it along.
She’ll be back soon enough — and so will your comments!

Can I get my 2 days back, American Airlines?

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Footnoted regulars know that I really stay focused on the filings. But on rare occasions, it seems worthwhile to share a personal experience involving a publicly traded company to provide a perspective that’s not readily visible in the filings. And my experience with American Airlines (AMR) these past two days shows just how bad airline [...]

A footnoted contest…

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Earlier this week, footnoted readers voted for the worst footnote in 2007, with nearly 60% selecting Qwest (Q). But all of the choices were limited to things that had been already reported on the site. Over the past few days, several readers have sent me variations of this story about Comcast’s (CMCSA) founder, Ralph Roberts, [...]

A footnoted contest…

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Even with all the screens I have in place to sort through filings, when Q season rolls around, things invariably fall through the cracks. So I’d like to enlist the help of footnoted.org readers. And I’d like to offer a reward for the best find: a signed copy of Vitaliy “Contrarian Edge” Katsenelson’s new book, [...]

The waiting room and Best of Web…

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

We take a break from our usual trawl through the filings in anticipation of the SEC’s “major announcement” about XBRL (there’s a video link here). Though the press conference, which promised “CEOs, and other representatives of SEC filers, accounting firms, technology firms and investors” was supposed to start at 10 am, it’s clearly [...]