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Madoff: The Atomic Bomb for Jewish Charities

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. The adjectives can’t get much worse. But that’s exactly what people in philanthropy are saying about the effects of Bernard L. Madoff’s demise on their world. Madoff was a social and financial nexus ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Dec 2008
Related Topics: Bernard Madoff,  Wall Street Journal

The Paulson Plan: “Truly Idiotic”

Charles Calomoris is angry. Hank Paulsons plan to save the economy? Truly idiotic, says Calomiris, who is the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Universitys business school. This whole thing has been complete nonsense. We did ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  25 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Financial Institutions, Inc.,  Citigroup,  Warren Buffett

In Corporate Debt, Silence Isn’t Golden

Amid all the noise of the markets, it is the relative silence of the corporate-bond market that may be most troubling. Since August there have been just seven U.S. junk-bond deals, according to Dealogic, and 83 deals for all of 2008. Not only is that ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  11 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.,  Deutsche Bank,  MGM MIRAGE,  Level 3 Communications, Inc.

The Cost of Saving GM and Chrysler

Rhetoric only becomes principle when you are willing to sacrifice to keep it. One day, say, you are lecturing about the beauties of the free market. Take John Snow, former Treasury Secretary, who issued a statement in May 2003, about coming changes to ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  5 Nov 2008
Related Topics: John Snow

League Table Gamesmanship, Budweiser Edition

On Wall Street, everyone is a winner. At least when it comes to the league tables followed by investment banks, law firms and yes, public-relations firms. These tables track who was involved in mergers and acquisitions, ranking them by the ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  24 Oct 2008
Related Topics: InBev,  Morgan Stanley

Where Was Lehman’s Board?

Nine of them are retired. Four of them are over 75 years old. One is a theater producer, another a former Navy admiral. Only two have direct experience in the financial-services industry. Meet the Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. external board directors, ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  15 Sep 2008
Related Topics: Lehman Brothers,  U.S. Bancorp,  Celanese,  IBM,  Dick Cheney

Merrill Lynch Banker Costa to Leave Firm

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. Media banker Michael Costa is decamping from Merrill Lynch, according to people familiar with the matter, the latest in a line of executive departures at the bank. Costa, 50 years old, is one of ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  6 Aug 2008
Related Topics: Merrill Lynch,  Michael Costa,  Dow Jones,  Sam Zell,  AT&T Inc.

Don’t Blame the Shorts. Blame the Longs.

We present, without comment, excerpts of testimony from a House Judiciary Committee hearing on short selling. The main actors: New York Congressman Frank Oliver, and New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney. The date: Feb. 24, 1932. Frank ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  31 Jul 2008

Budweiser-InBev: Patriotism Has Its Price–$70 a Share

All that patriotism stuff? The Missouri Senators, the Clydesdales, the flag-waving distributors? Everyone and every board has its price. And based on reporting early this morning, Anheuser’s price is $70 a share, or about $50 billion in total from ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  11 Jul 2008
Related Topics: InBev,  St. Louis Cardinals,  General Electric,  George W. Bush

GE’s Big Sale: The End of The End of Industrial America

An up-to-the-minute take on deals and deal makers. 2008, the year of capitulation. It has been decades in the making. One need only look back at The Wall Street Journal of 1984, when a feature article on Cleveland’s troubles illustrated the broader ...

From DENNIS K. BERMAN, Wall Street Journal,  10 Jul 2008
Related Topics: General Electric,  General Motors,  Motorola, Inc.,  Fannie Mae,  Freddie Mac

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