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I would have preferred to get through the week without hearing the phrase “FAA whistleblowers.” Here we are, already trying to survive various and sundry blows to the global economy. And now, as we’re sitting on the runway, we’ll be wondering if anyone has recently inspected the Scotch tape that’s keeping the wing on the plane to [...]
When it comes to the subprime mortgage crisis, IndyMac (IMB) may not be as large of a poster child as Countrywide Financial (CFC). After all, when Congress held a hearing earlier this month, IndyMac’s Chairman and CEO, Michael W. Perry wasn’t even on the invite list. Still, judging by their growing list of bank-owned properties, [...]
The folks on the Compensation and Benefits Committee at Ameriprise Financial (AMP) feel our pain. “We realize,” they say in the company’s proxy, filed Monday, “executive compensation can be a complicated subject,” so they’ve “tried to make this year’s Compensation Discussion and Analysis easier to read.”
And yes, the font used in the footnotes to the [...]
As I wait for today’s House Oversight Committee hearing to start on the links between the subprime mess and hefty compensation for several CEOs (the live feed is here and it’s also on CSPAN), it seems like a good time to hand out two more gold stars.
The first one that caught my eye was Unisys [...]
As anyone who reads SEC filings regularly knows, today’s a big deadline for companies on a calendar year, which means that filings are backed up like planes at LaGuardia. All of us here at footnoted are finding lots of interesting things and while not all of them are juicy enough to warrant a post, it’s [...]
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