Elsewhere on Thursday:
- Proposed statement of good practice for financial PR
- This is almost certainly the worst investment in Berkshire Hathaway of all time
- Dude, hating Microsoft is, like, so yesterday…
” I have constantly complained about how far CEOs and boards will go in order to retain their jobs, yet even I am amazed at the length Jerry Yang and the Yahoo board have gone to in order to entrench their positions and keep shareholders from deciding if they wished to sell to Microsoft.”
- Smart money buying land in Kazakhstan
- Did TPG get a chunk of Bradford & Bingley on the cheap?
- Why the pattern day trader rule proves the SEC rivals Osama Bin Laden in terrorism
- Nothing like looking down the barrel of a 315-year prison sentence and a $2.4bn asset forfeiture to concentrate even the criminal mind.
- Further, further reading
[…] See, all it takes to get people to notice the absurdity of the PDT is an Osama mention…saaaad […]
Berkshire Hathaway trade too - surely too liquid for that to happen? No 5% rule like here?
No comment on FSA looking into “possible insider dealing” on BB ahead of last announcement? Think I’m about ready to emigrate.
That Osama and SEC post is damn interesting!