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On Friday night, I went to a screening of Food Inc. with Director Robert Kenner at the Phillipstown Depot, the former train station in Garrison that has been turned into a small theater. After the screening, Kenner took questions from the audience and I couldn’t help but ask whether he (and his researchers) had relied [...]
By now, you’ve probably heard or read about the massive document dump that the SEC unleashed on Friday night: 536 exhibits related to the Bernie Madoff case. Reading all of these — even figuring out which ones are worth reading — was all but impossible, even if it wasn’t earnings and 10-Q season. The New [...]
With the news yesterday that some form of the public option for healthcare appears to be moving forward, we can probably expect more companies to start including warnings like Walgreen (WAG) did in the 10-K it filed yesterday:
The Federal government has been considering proposals to reform the U.S. health care system. These proposals may increase [...]
We don’t spend a lot of time looking at mutual fund filings here at footnoted, mostly because there’s really only so many hours in the day. But yesterday was a big day for mutual fund proxies and one of our regular searches — we have about 150 of them running now — turned up an [...]
On Wednesday, the SEC announced the creation of an Investor Advisory Committee, which it said would give the SEC “a greater voice in the Commission’s Work”. In general, the list of names had few surprises: representatives from labor, a select group of academics, and some industry folks. But one name jumped out at me: Mark [...]
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