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hank-quense's picture
Dec.31.2011
With the lose of patent protection on Lipitor, Pfizer has announced it will seek bailout funds to make up for the devastating loss of revenue and profits. FNN financial reporter Cash Kruggerand filed this report.Pfizer reports that the loss of patent protection on Lipitor has had a stunning effect...
hank-quense's picture
Nov.10.2011
Stacy Conundrum, FNN political reporter, talked exclusively to Dr. Phillip Pompous, an economist and CEO of a conservative think-tank who advises the Republicans on regulatory manners.  SC: Why do the Republicans aver that the financial industry doesn't require additional regulation to keep...
phil-bronstein's picture
Sep.22.2009
A campaign executive for Gavin Newsom's governor's race said I was "scraping the bottom of the barrel" when I posted a photo of the mayor's green recycling bin in connection with a column about the city's new mandatory composting regulation. Point and shaky pun taken. But, despite my...
edmund-jenks's picture
Mar.17.2009
Leaders of the White House economic team and the Senate's top Republican bellowed about bonuses at a bailed-out insurance giant and pledged to prevent such payments in the future.From one Sunday talk show to the next, they tore into the contracts that American International Group asserted had to...
edmund-jenks's picture
Feb.19.2009
Simpsons characters pictured in a mob revolt with tourches. Image Credit: The Simpsons Let The Revolution Begin It's ironic that Barack Obama, whose friends were disciples Saul Alinsky, an ardent social revolutionist, becomes president and sparks a revolution toward conservative American...
jayne-lyn-stahl's picture
Jan.25.2009
The New York Times reports tonight that pharmaceutical giant Pfizer plans to buy Wyeth for an estimated $68 billion which may spark a drug consolidation trend. Clearly, the pharmaceutical industry may be the only one left that doesn't require a bailout! http://ladyjaynestahl.blogspot.com
bevan-morrison's picture
Sep.23.2008
I don't know about you, but I've been losing sleep over the country's financial crisis. A worry-wart by nature, I definitely lost some precious zzz's to the pending government bailout of several financial giants, who have shoved our economy to the brink of a depression. As I staggered through the...