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"Creative accounting" is something we hate.
From now on your numbers will have to be straight.
No taking of options for stock you contrive
To dump when insiders can tell it will dive.
And loans? If you want one, then go to the bank.
These sweetheart loans stink! They're disgusting! They're rank!
This type of behavior we strictly forbid.
Just do as we say now, and not as we did.
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A Devil's Dictionary of Finance
Nicholas von Hoffman: An irreverent lexicon of terms that paved the way to the subprime mortgage meltdown.
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Spitzer's Shame is Wall Street's Gain
Robert Scheer: Why should we get all worked up over the revelation that the New York governor paid for sex?
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How to Swim Against the Current
Jim Hightower & Susan DeMarco: People are wriggling free of the fetters of corporate culture.
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Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
Naomi Klein: Gone are the days of equal protection. Intense natural disasters like the California wildfires are being met with a new model: privatized disaster response.
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Travails of the Super-Rich
Barbara Ehrenreich: Just in time for Labor Day, a new report on the gap between the boss and the average worker is a gleefully malicious attack on the richest CEOs.
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Whole Foods CEO Sows Wild Oats
Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Matthew Blake: America's favorite natural grocery chain is looking like just another greedy, antiunion corporation.
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Blackstone's Bell
Corporate Responsibility & Accountability
Doug Henwood: Is the private equity boom about to go bust?
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Competitive Sliming
Calvin Trillin: At least McCain's being creative.
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A Citizen Who Has Tried to Keep Informed Addresses Those Covering the 2008 Presidential Election
Calvin Trillin: From the pulpit to the polling booth.
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John McCain, Demonstrating His Intention to Make Inroads Among African-American Voters...
Calvin Trillin: But guess who showed up instead?
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Patriotism, 2008
Calvin Trillin: What's that on your lapel?
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Stephen Hadley Says an Olympic Boycott Is a 'Cop-out' on the Tib
Calvin Trillin: Just keep it coming.
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Filling Mark Penn's Somewhat Mucky Shoes
Calvin Trillin: Don't these people ever learn?
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On the Struggle For The Democratic Nomination
Calvin Trillin: The race is theirs to lose.
