Back in June, I reported that homeowners who lost homes in Katrina were waiting for a major ruling in their case against insurance companies. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr. had ruled in November that the insurance polices were ambiguous […]
To hell with profits. Overstock wants to send newsletters.
On my other site I have Google ads. It’s a nifty way to recover some of the costs of running the site. It wasn’t until recently that I started to use the “channels” feature. Basically you can set up different […]
I openly admit to being a reality television fan. My favorites are Survivor and Amazing Race, but just about any reality show will do. So when I saw commercials for this new show called “Kid Nation,” I was intrigued. 40 […]
On Sunday, Jessica McBride had a great post on Eugene Kane, and his failure to accept the truth when it’s coming the sources. Eugene Kane is a liberal columnist for the Journal Sentinel, who is always moaning about the injustice […]
Sam Antar at White Collar Fraud Blog has posted the second part of his analysis of Overstock.com’s second quarter numbers, and it ain’t pretty! Looks like Byrne and company are doing even more fancy math! Yoo-hoo… SEC… are you listening? […]
Last time it was the public museum. This time it’s the pension scandal. Revisited. Again. How many times do the taxpayers have to get screwed by the Milwaukee County Pension Board? The Pension Board has approved an “independent” investigation into […]
Twin sisters Charlene Corley and Darlene Wooten bilked the federal government out of millions with their company, C&D Distributors of Lexington, SC. The fraud totaled $20.5 million over six years and exploited a weakness in the Defense Department purchasing system. […]
Bert Fingerhut, a former Wall Street broker, is going to prison for two year for illegally obtaining stock in 65 public offerings by banks and profiting over $11 million from it. One such instance related to stock in Bank Mutual, […]
In an exiting new development, Hedge Funnies reports (satirically) that GNC will begin offering a product that will give users eternal life. But this well-informed and extremely healthy employee told us something revolutionary — he has heard from sources well-placed […]
