Last week, I was in Copenhagen and it was hard to miss the banners for Bodies The Exhibition attached to light posts around the city, especially near Tivoli, a major tourist attraction. I didn’t go to the exhibit — there’s so many other more interesting things to do in Copenhagen than look at dead bodies, [...]

Judging by the news this morning about new subpoenas going out over auction rate securities, this is one more headache for Wall Street that’s likely to get worse. So I decided to take a look at how companies are talking about this mess in their recent filings. The short answer is a lot more than [...]

Nearly seven weeks ago, we footnoted about what seemed like an interesting disclosure at AMR (AMR), the parent company for American Airlines, which disclosed a sizable increase in the number of airworthiness directives it had received in its 2007 10-K. At the time, the stock was trading at around $14.50 a share.
Fast forward to today [...]

It’s been another one of those weeks here at footnoted, with so many filings that it’s been hard to pick and choose. So instead of just focusing on one or two, I thought I’d do a bit of “spring cleaning” and talk about some of the things that wound up in the footnoted net this [...]

Retailer American Apparel (APP), which is usually described as being edgy and which since going public via a special purpose acquisition company in mid-December has fallen sharply, had more than a few sharp edges in the 10K it filed on Monday.
Controversial CEO Dov Charney is currently dealing with one lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and wrongful [...]