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  • The World’s Most ‘Liked’ Brands May 17, 2012
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  • Facebook IPO Range Is Finalized Before Pricing Tonight May 17, 2012
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  • Are Retail Investors Getting Hustled on Facebook? May 17, 2012
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  • GOP ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama May 17, 2012
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  • Philly Fed Index, Economic Indicators Paint Grim Picture May 17, 2012
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  • Market Saviors? There Are Two Groups Buying Stocks May 17, 2012
    With mom-and-pop investors essentially out of stocks, buying has been left to a shaky combination of foreigners and company buy-backs that has kept the 2012 rally afloat. […]
  • Is the ‘Staycation’ Making a Comeback? May 17, 2012
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  • CP Rail CEO Quits After Proxy Fight With Bill Ackman May 17, 2012
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  • Pinterest Valued at $1.5 Billion in Latest Deal May 17, 2012
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  • World 'Dangerous,' 'Very Tough' Road for US: Geithner May 17, 2012
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  • Fitch Says Top 29 Banks May Need $556 Billion May 17, 2012
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  • Weekly Claims Hold Steady as Jobs Picture Still Murky May 17, 2012
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  • Senators’ ‘Ex-Patriot’ Act Aimed at Facebook’s Saverin May 17, 2012
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  • Stocks to Watch: WMT, SHLD, LTD & More May 17, 2012
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  • Wal-Mart Earnings Rise, Outstrip Wall Street Forecasts May 17, 2012
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  • Greek Exit: How Much It Would Cost Europe May 17, 2012
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  • ‘Sexy’ European Growth Pact Is Inevitable: Pro May 17, 2012
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  • GOP ‘Super PAC’ Weighs Hard-Line Attack on Obama May 17, 2012
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  • Beating High-Speed Traders: Norway Shows How May 17, 2012
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  • How Greek Economic Woes Could Help US Consumers May 17, 2012
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• BBC Front Page

  • Greece names caretaker cabinet May 17, 2012
    A cabinet of professors and diplomats is sworn in in Greece to steer the debt-ridden eurozone state into repeat elections on 17 June […]
  • Disco singer Donna Summer dies May 17, 2012
    US singer Donna Summer, famous for disco hits including I Feel Love, Love To Love You Baby and Love's Unkind, dies at the age of 63. […]
  • Olympic flame handed over to UK May 17, 2012
    The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012 Games at a ceremony in Athens. […]
  • Markets drop on eurozone worries May 17, 2012
    Concern over the eurozone debt crisis has continued to weigh on financial markets, with the euro dropping more than a cent against the US dollar, […]
  • Man held for 'swallowing diamond' May 17, 2012
    A man is being held in custody until a $20,000 diamond he is believed to have swallowed passes through his system, Canadian police say. […]
  • White births now minority in US May 17, 2012
    Children from racial and ethnic minorities now account for more than half the births in the US, estimates from the latest census data say. […]
  • Facebook share sale approaches May 17, 2012
    Facebook shares will begin trading in New York on Friday in one of the most eagerly anticipated share flotations in recent stock market history. […]
  • Bankia: No cash withdrawal surge May 17, 2012
    Shares in Spanish bank Bankia close sharply lower as it is forced to deny a report of a large amount of withdrawals from the troubled group. […]
  • SA 'fails pupils on textbooks' May 17, 2012
    The South African government's failure to provide textbooks to all state school pupils violates the constitution, the high court rules. […]
  • Private police roles put on hold May 17, 2012
    Plans to use private firms in police roles in Surrey are put on hold, as West Midlands Police says it will ask the police authority for "a revision to the process". […]
  • Court quashes murder conviction May 17, 2012
    A 24-year-old London man who has served more than seven years in jail for the murder of a trainee chef has his conviction quashed. […]
  • Adele wins songwriter of the year May 17, 2012
    Adele picks up two prizes at the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting awards - but misses out on two more trophies. […]
  • Syria opposition head 'to resign' May 17, 2012
    The head of Syria's main opposition umbrella body, the Syrian National Council, says he will resign amid growing criticism and rifts within the group. […]
  • Mladic trial hit by legal hitch May 17, 2012
    The war crimes trial of Bosnian Serb ex-army chief Ratko Mladic is postponed on its second day because prosecutors failed to disclose some evidence to the defence. […]
  • Your pictures: Sailing May 17, 2012
    Readers' photos on the theme sailing […]
  • Liverpool 'need to move quickly' May 17, 2012
    Alan Hansen says his old club Liverpool must move quickly to fill the void left by the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish. […]
  • 'Superflares' from stars counted May 17, 2012
    Nasa's Kepler space telescope provides new insight on the colossal explosions that can occur in the atmospheres of some stars. […]
  • UK retains strict animal test law May 17, 2012
    The UK says it will retain stricter animal testing standards than required by a new European Union Directive. […]
  • Cameron defends his euro warning May 17, 2012
    David Cameron says it was "more dangerous to stay silent than to speak out" - and insists there will be no retreat on deficit reduction. […]
  • Drone hits al-Qaeda cell in Yemen May 17, 2012
    A drone strike in eastern Yemen has killed two suspected al-Qaeda militants, a Yemeni security official says. […]

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• Human Events News Feed

  • First Solar CEO grilled for dumping stock after taxpayer loan
    Analysis: Michael Ahearn testifies in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's hearing on "The Obama Administration's Green Energy Gamble: What Have All The Taxpayer Subsidies Achieved?" […]
  • House Republicans say emails link green energy loans to White House
    Rep. Jim Jordan says Solyndra was tip of the iceberg in a sea of taxpayer risk -- hardly the "one bad apple" as characterized by the Obama administration. […]
  • Castro's activist daughter granted U.S. visa
    State Department issues Raul Castro's activist daughter a Visa to attend an academic conference in San Francisco -- Sen. Marco Rubio calls it an "enormous mistake." […]
  • Amendments to protect chaplains' conscience rights sparks controversy and debate
    The provisions, which would also prohibit same-sex marriage ceremonies from being performed on U.S. military bases, have been criticized as "political wedge issues," but supporters say they are necessary to clarify DoD standards. […]
  • Eduardo Saverin doesn't owe us anything
    If high taxation chases successful people out of the country, that's the country's fault. […]
  • Panetta puts limits on F-22 flights after reports of pilot dizziness
    Symptoms of oxygen deficiency in Air Force pilots move Defense Secretary Panetta to limit 5th Generation fighter jet's flight path. […]
  • Deb Fischer wins Nebraska GOP Senate primary
    State Sen. Fischer -- whose strength came from being a relative outsider -- beat out State Attorney General Jon Bruning by a margin of 41 to 36 percent. […]
  • JPMorgan proves we don't need more regulation
    Rather than turning banks into "special" cases, Washington should be working to let them sink or swim on their own. […]
  • Fuzzy math on energy
    President Obama tells us the U.S. has only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, but the truth is that reserves are growing, and the U.S. produces more in goods and services than it consumes in oil. […]
  • Romney hits home run at Liberty University
    Analysis: Mitt Romney's commencement address at the evangelical university was an appeal to conservative Christians, seeking their help in the months up to November. […]
  • Congress Looks to Rewrite Act That Led to Gibson Guitar Raid
    Lacey Act of 1900, later recast with criminal penalties, put U.S. business owners in jail for receiving lobsters from international vendors in boxes, not plastic bags. […]
  • Mitt Romney's Plan of Attack
    Exclusive: GOP strategist Karl Rove tells Human Events Romney can win and outlines strategies and tactics, beginning with "flipping" five key states that went for President Obama in 2008. […]
  • Nebraska Republican Senate primary up for grabs
    Despite the toss-up, anyone of the three contenders looks sure to take retiring Sen. Ben Nelson's seat in November. […]
  • Ron Paul suspends active campaigning
    "This campaign is about more than just the 2012 election." […]
  • Will Germany's Merkel bend on austerity?
    A Sunday vote in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia dealt a serious blow to Merkel's center-right CDU, and their Eurozone austerity measures. […]

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JPM’s superlative performance

By Brice Buckley (Editor-at-Large, Clarion Advisory) 5-13-12

What a superlative performance into the sublime carried out by JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon earlier in the week; I guess there was good reason Mr. Dimon had JPM’s General Counsel seated adjacent to him on Thursday’s hastily arranged emergency conference call… a call Clarion Advisory participated in along with some of the Street’s top rated analysts, except, being the non-conformists as we are, we relished leaving our phone Read more

peel and stick…

can’t convince them? confuse them

By Bob Jentges (Editor Emeritus, Clarion Advisory) 5-10-12

When I do decide to try and get some news from network TV and turn on my flat screen, it seems only moments before a clip of President Obama appears… giving a campaign speech on a college campus, on our dime.  

Why a college campus?  As one well known radio personality puts it: that’s where lots of young people with ”skulls full of mush” hang-out.  The last network clip I saw involved a blatant misrepresentation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FTC (2008), quickly followed by a reference to the straw man issue of interest on student loans. 

With respect to Citizens, Mr. Obama shouts to the crowd of adoring students: “Corporations aren’t people; people are people.”   That statement is half correct i.e. “people are people”.  But at least he is half right — better than usual. 

The issue of corporate personhood is not new.  It dates back at least to Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) when the U.S. Supreme Court recognized corporations as having the same rights as natural persons to contract and enforce same — and again in Santa Clara College v. Southern Pacific Railroad (1886) when the Court recognized corporations as persons for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment i.e. equal protection of the laws.  Moreover, in Buckley v. Valo (1976)  the Court ruled that spending money to influence elections is a form of constitutionally protected free speech.

The way I see it, President Obama is taking to heart what Harry S Truman said: “If you can’t convince them, confuse them” — because what Citizens really did was no more than clarify that certain groups (such as for-profit corporations, non-profits, and labor unions, i.e. groups of citizens i.e. people) acting together for a common cause, can retain their First Amendment rights — specifically, when experessing their views on political candidates. 

With respect to the issue of interest on student loans, President Obama neglected to tell the young skulls full of mush that it was a Democrat controlled Congress that put a sunset on the interest reduction, and that Congress was already in agreement that the lower interest rate would be extended — if he would simply sign the legislation when it reached his desk.

If President Obama is genuinely interested in helping college/university students, he should give more than lip service to the problem of double digit annual increases in tuition costs.

Your Vote – Your Future

By Frank Hyland (Associate, Clarion Advisory) 5-10-12

After I graduated from High School, and even before college, I was more than ready to get out on my own.  I very much looked forward to having my own place, setting my own hours, and setting my own rules.  I have no doubt that the great majority of young folks today feel the same.  The difference is that I could do it and did it.  Today, more than eight in ten college graduates are forced to move back in with their parents, saddled with tens of thousands of dollars in debt in the form of student loans and/or credit cards. 

I can’t imagine what I would have felt like if I had moved back into the home that I wanted very much to have “in the rearview mirror.”  Today’s graduates needn’t imagine it because they’re living it daily.  The great majority of my high school classmates had moved out on their own, had gotten jobs, and had even started families.  It wasn’t at all uncommon.  Today it is very uncommon. 

If I had, for some reason, had to move back into my parents’ house, I would have taken every step to conceal that fact from my classmates who lived in their own apartments and houses.  These days, with so many young folks back home, it may be a bit easier to admit the fact to one’s peers because at no time in the past, it is reported, have so many college graduates ever had to move back into their parents’ houses.

Leaving the issue of the cost of higher education aside for another column, the point to focus on here is the jobs market, especially for recent college graduates.  In a word, it is “lousy.”  Salaries and wages are low and are shrinking in terms of buying power, along with the number of jobs. 

The added burden, though, of having Read more

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    BEIRUT, Lebanon, May 17 (UPI) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati ordered the military to set up check points and arrest people carrying weapons in public as clashes continued in Tripoli. […]
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    ROME, May 17 (UPI) -- Italy plans to increase its counter-terrorism intelligence and protection for potential targets after recent threats and attacks, a government minister said. […]
  • Suicide bombers rush provincial office
    KABUL, Afghanistan, May 17 (UPI) -- Eleven people, including six police officers, died in a suicide attack on a provincial governor's compound in Afghanistan Thursday, officials said. […]
  • Navy ship malfunction causes collision
    SAN DIEGO, May 17 (UPI) -- The collision of the U.S.S. Essex with a fleet replenishment oiler near Southern California was due to a "steering malfunction," Navy officials said. […]
  • Two sentenced for terror attack in Russia
    VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia, May 17 (UPI) -- A Russian court handed jail sentences to two men in a 2010 terrorist attack in Vladikavkaz that killed 19 people, prosecutors said. […]
  • Medvedev warns of war
    ST. PETERSBURG, Russia, May 17 (UPI) -- Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned Thursday military intervention in the affairs of sovereign states could lead to war, even nuclear war. […]
  • Shadow hangs over Putin's third term
    MOSCOW, May 17 (UPI) -- Vladimir Putin may have a tough time justifying his presidency given the lack of investor confidence in his country and continued protests, an expert said. […]
  • Romney, RNC pull in $40M in April
    WASHINGTON, May 17 (UPI) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee raised $40.1 million in April, his campaign said. […]
  • Museum director arrested for smuggling stolen icon
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  • 2 apprehended for shooting of imam in Sweden
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  • John Edwards trial nears a close
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  • Seek release of South Korean activists
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  • Madrassah apologizes for anti-Semitic post
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  • CPJ: Al-Jazeera prosecutions illegal
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