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By Craig A. Huffman, Esquire, Managing Partner, Securus Law Group, P.A.-Public Company News, May 28, 2011-
The first sign of trouble is a telephone call a CEO gets from someone saying they are an FBI agent from Miami. With palms sweating and chest tightening, the CEO listens as the G-man explains ... Read More
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Spanning 33 years James Dimon’s career has included positions at: Goldman Sachs (intern); Management Analysis Center (consultant); American Express Company (vice president and assistant to the president); Commercial Credit Group (president and CFO); Primerica Corporation (president and CFO); Smith Barney (COO); Salomon Smith Barney Holdings (president); Bank One (chairman and ... Read More
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AEROKINETIC ENERGY CORPORATION
AND ITS PRESIDENT ORDERED TO PAY $994,571
The SEC announced that the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida entered a final judgment against Aerokinetic Energy Corporation and its president, Randolph E. Bridwell. The final judgment imposes disgorgement of ill-gotten proceeds, jointly and severally, in the amount ... Read More
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All denominations of U.S. currency are composed of 75% cotton and 25% linen — which mean that the cost of making those notes has skyrocketed, due to the skyrocketing price of cotton.
In Feb. 2001, cotton cost $60.44 a pound. In March 2011 the price had jumped to $149.44 a pound.
In ... Read More
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In 1992 the Democratic Party of Albania won the first free elections in Albania, and Sali Berisha became president. Albania was becoming a liberalized economy after years under a controlled economy. The rudimentary financial system became dominated by Ponzi schemes, and government officials endorsed a series of pyramid investment funds. ... Read More
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T. Boone Pickens — the ‘Oracle of Oil’
The breadth of T. Boone Pickens' career is staggering. He built the largest independent oil company in the United States and flourished as an entrepreneur after leaving it, generating hundreds of millions of dollars in the process. Among his lengthy accolades, Financial World ... Read More
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By Roy Sahachaisere
"Free" Market Economy? "Frictionless" Transactions?
Not a chance, Market Efficiency? Protection of the individual lnvestor? Puh-leeze.
These buzzwords of the modern economist are bandied about so emphatically and with such abandon at they are often completely unquestioned assumptions of the public market system. In theory, the current regulatory system is ... Read More
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The SEC announced that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas W. Phillips entered a judgment against LandOak Securities, LLC (“LandOak Securities”) and Patrick L. Martin (“Martin”). LandOak Securities and Martin were ordered to pay disgorgement in the amount of $880,512.16, plus prejudgment interest of $111,628.38.
The judgment further provides that if the ... Read More
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Over 20 years ago Adriaan Alettus Niewoudt rose to prominence when he convinced thousands of wide-eyed South Africans to buy into the kubus scheme, which was based on a milk culture his grandmother used as a skin product.
In January 1984, Nieuwoudt placed a newspaper advertisement inviting members of the public ... Read More
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Moscow is now home to the most billionaires, with 79, followed by New York with 58, Forbes said in its annual list of the world's richest people.
The world's richest man, Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim, retained his crown for the second year. He made more money than any of the other ... Read More
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The founder of linkedFA, the premier social networking site for financial advisors and their clients, talks with Managing Editor Leslie Stone about his ground-breaking website, how he complies with regulatory requirements and why he’s not ready to sell out just yet.
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” So said the ancient ... Read More
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FEDERAL COURT ORDERS OFFICERS
OF NEUROTECH TO PAY OVER $314,000
On April 1, 2011 The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that U.S. District Court Judge Thomas C. Platt adopted a Magistrate Judge’s previously-issued Report and Recommendation against Neurotech Development Corporation’s (“Neurotech”) sole officers, the father-son management team of Bernard Artz (chairman, chief ... Read More
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By Jim Dillahunty
In today's highly competitive brokerage environment, superior telephone skills can make major contributions toward maintaining productive client relationships and increasing business. Financial planners and registered representatives who take the time and effort to develop mastery of their telephone skills can improve their bottom lines at virtually no cost ... Read More
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Reed Eliot Slatkin was an initial investor and co-founder of EarthLink and the perpetrator of one of the largest Ponzi schemes in the United States since that conducted by Charles Ponzi himself.
Slatkin, an ordained Scientology minister since 1975, went from being a full-time minister to a self-employed investor. Many of ... Read More
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Orlando, Florida—May 9, 2011 – Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American pop singer-songwriter with a net worth of $110 million, according to Celebrity Networth.com. According to paywizard.org she will earn an additional $62 Million this year from record, merchandise and concert ticket sales. If she ... Read More
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Q: How did you first get started in business? What was your first success?
A: The very first thing I did that was a success was Student Magazine. I was a teenager at the time and we operated from a London basement. By the summer of 1967 the magazine started to ... Read More
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Lady Gaga (real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) is an American pop singer-songwriter with a net worth of $110 million, according to Celebrity Networth.com. According to paywizard.org she will earn an additional $62 Million this year from record, merchandise and concert ticket sales. If she had become a public company ... Read More
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Lawyer And Trader Accused In major Insider Trading Case
Attorney Matthew Kluger and trader Garrett Bauer have been accused by federal prosecutors of running a l7-year conspiracy to trade on corporate merger secrets stolen from three of the nation's most influential law firms, in one of the largest U.S. insider trading ... Read More
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1985: $7.125/Share 2011: $47.24
Adolf Coors became an orphan at the age of 15 and had to support his younger siblings by working at a local brewery in a small Prussian town that today is the city of Wuppertal, Germany.
Adolph continued to work in the brewing industry until he was 21, ... Read More
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You have up to three choices when it comes to holding your securities:
Physical Certificate - The security is registered in your name on the issuer's books, and you receive an actual, hard copy stock or bond certificate representing your ownership of the security.
"Street Name" Registration - The security is registered ... Read More
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