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Last Call

January 20, 2010 – 11:59 am

During the holidays Clark called me and said, “Ed, you’re lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground.” And I said, “What?!?” And he said, “Oh, nevermind, it’s just something I’ve been working on with a client. It probably won’t go anywhere. “The real reason I’m calling is this….” He went on to […]

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CEO in Chief at the Business Roundtable

March 13, 2009 – 11:09 am

President Obama had a good appearance yesterday before the Business Roundtable, a collection of CEOs from top companies. In his remarks, and particularly in the Q and A, the president sounded like the pragmatic, facts-first leader that drew many non-traditional Democratic supporters to him. His remarks on cap-and-trade were especially encouraging. While his insistence that […]

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Throw Your Hands in the Air

February 11, 2009 – 4:57 pm

If you want to know everything – and I mean everything – that happened at today’s bank CEO hearing in the House, check out the Wall Street Journal’s Deal Journal, which live-blogged the entire event. You’ll notice that at 1:32 pm (seriously, they blogged everything), the CEOs were asked to raise their hands if their company […]

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Bankers on the Hill

February 11, 2009 – 11:22 am

Major bank executives are appearing before Barney Frank’s House Financial Services Committee this morning. Major messages: We are lending more; we won’t be foolish with TARP money. Bonus points if you can say you didn’t get a bonus last year. Morgan Stanley’s John Mack gets double extra credit for not taking a bonus in 2007 […]

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