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Volcker Appointed to Overhaul Tax Code; Ken Lewis Sees Recession Bottoming; Ford’s Volvo Sales Moving Along; Romania Receives $27 Billion IMF Loan; IBM Transfers Jobs to India; Durable Goods Orders Rise; Brazil’s Stock Market Surges to Six Week High; Bank of America to Repay TARP Funds
- President Barack Obama has appointed Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to close tax loopholes and streamline tax laws. The top-to-bottom overhaul of the 96-year-old tax code will reduce tax evasion and “corporate welfare,” budget Director Peter Orszag told Bloomberg.
- Kenneth Lewis, Bank of America Corp.’s (BAC) chief executive, told The Los Angeles Times he wants to…
Every Party Has a Pooper…
Last week, a headline in Canada’s Globe and Mail spoke of a miracle.
“Record crude prices force US oil company into Chapter 11.” We read the headline twice. It was no mistake. Even with the sunniest skies in the oil industry in more than 33 years, the Tulsa-based oil marketing company, SemGroup, still managed to find a puddle deep enough to drown itself.
Yesterday we reported Merrill’s $5.7 billion in write-downs. Even with the smartest people on Wall Street running things, the firm couldn’t avoid big losses. And last week, Fannie and Freddie had our attention. The twin mortgage lenders had been…
31Jul2008 | Daily Reckoning | Comments Off | Continued
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