CFO vs. Hedge Funds

In the right corner - Holger Haerter, Porsche’s “CFO extraordinaire”. One of the brightest stars in the automotive world; credited with keeping the German car manufacturer highly profitable in good times and bad (Cayman turned a profit on the very first unit sold!). Mr. Haerter also has a knack for derivatives trading. In [...]

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Free Puzzle Games

Hey, all you number crunchers out there. Time to put your minds to work and pull this economy out of a ditch. On October 10th, U.S. Treasury submitted a request for public comment to assist in the development of the federal guarantee of troubled assets program. The kind of insurance scheme that would help taxpayers get [...]

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U.S.S.A

Welcome to the United Socialist States of America. It’s taken only eight years under Bush for our country to morph from a beacon of freedom and democracy with a mandate to bring peace and prosperity to developing nations into a dangerous giant spreading financial and political chaos around the globe. After spending billions of dollars [...]

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“Bring Out Your Dead”

Are we in a recession yet? Certainly, Washington hasn’t fully acknowledged it even though they are prophesizing nothing less than another Great Depression without passage of the Bailout. If we are in a recession, it definitely feels like we are in a “slow motion” one. It’s like freezing up in a bad dream, unable to move [...]

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