AUSTIN -- A new wrinkle in the annals of corporate scandal -- Salomon Smith Barney, the stock brokerage/investment banking firm, allocated almost a million shares of hot IPO (initial public offerings) shares in 21 different companies to...
22 August 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Here we are playing hawks and doves again on the matter on Iraq -- war or no war? -- with particularly peppy exchanges from our more excitable brethren on the right concerning "appeasement" and lack of patriotism on the...
22 August 2002
Some people are suspicious that President Bush will go for a
"wag the dog" strategy -- boosting Republican prospects with a
military assault on Iraq shortly before Election Day. But a
modified approach now seems to be...
20 August 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Vinson & Elkins, the attorneys for Enron, are now touting their expertise on "offshore special purpose entities" on firm's website. They are "well versed," says their advertisement, in "off-balance sheet treatment."...
15 August 2002
WACO, Texas -- The President's Economic Forum held here Tuesday raises the question, "By how much don't they get it?"
The range of opinion at this shindig went from A to B. This wasn't a forum, it was a pep rally. Sis-Boom-...
The range of opinion at this shindig went from A to B. This wasn't a forum, it was a pep rally. Sis-Boom-...
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