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This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011.  While ISS reports that 39% of S&P 500 companies continue to have staggered boards, shareholder proposals requesting that the board of dir

This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011.  While ISS reports that 39% of S&P 500 companies continue to have staggered boards, shareholder proposals requesting that the board of dir

I just don't understand the argument that it is more important for banks to be able to compete with equal capital levels in Shanghai than in Omaha - unless big banks care more about bringing jobs to China than small business loans to middle Ameri

We recently asked our esteemed readership what the prognosis was for The Great Wall Looming Over Wall Street in 2014 and beyond.  Specifically, we wanted to know whether our readers thought the refinancing of the $657 billion in upcoming high

This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011. 

This is the first of a series of posts to discuss key shareholder proposals during proxy season 2011. 

Patricia Kluge, 62, filed for chapter 7 ba

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The Los Angeles Dodgers are entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today as the team continues to struggle financially in the wake of the divorce case of team owner

Many states are under extreme fiscal distress.  (So, perhaps the better title for this blog is "Lack of 'Change' ($/cents) in the State House . . . .')

First, many thanks to the 1,700 unique visitors who viewed 3,000 web pages this past week (mostly my

chart of filings nationally

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has followed other courts (notably, the Fifth Circuit,

Fri, 3 June, 2011