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• Investment Grades and the Easy AAA

  Published: October 23, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Investment, Grades, The, Easy, Aaa, General Electric Company, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Fortune Magazine, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, The Charlotte Observer, Allan Sloan, Charlotte, Doris Burke, Wall Street, United States

  It's amazing how easy it is to get lazy and comfortable and accept things as they seem to be instead of trying to see them as they are. That's true, I'm sorry to say, even for someone like me who urges eternal vigilance and makes a living writing about financial fiascos.

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• Gizmodo vs. Engadget Battle Spotlighted in Fortune Mag [Pulp Bite]

  Published: November 2, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Engadget, Fortune Magazine, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Vs Engadget, Pulp Bite

  magazine must have been sniffing around our haunts lately, because there's a fresh piece in its pages today about the ongoing war between your friends here at the Giz and our respected and worthy competitors at Engadget. Entitled "The blogs of war: Engadget vs. Gizmodo", the one-page story recounts the origins of the two tech sites and

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• No Payback for Chiefs When Profit Evaporates

  Published: November 13, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Payback, For, Chiefs, When, Profit, Evaporates, Stan O Neal, Charles Prince, Citigroup Inc, Fortune Magazine, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, Allan Sloan, Wall Street

  Even if you flame out on Wall Street, you still get to keep the money. That's one of the lessons we learn from the fall of Chuck Prince and Stan O'Neal, who have bitten the dust because Citigroup and Merrill Lynch had to take billions of dollars in losses on securities that were overvalued on their...

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• Fannie Stock Slides As Questions Arise Over Accounting

  Published: November 17, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Fannie, Stock, Slides, Questions, Arise, Over, Accounting, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac Holdings, Brian Faith, Stephen M Swad, Wall Street, Federal Financial Analytics Inc, Fortune Magazine, Eric E Wasserstrom, Franklin D Raines, Richard Drezen, U S Securities And Exchange

  Shares of Fannie Mae experienced their steepest two-day drop in 20 years after concerns grew among investors that the home mortgage giant changed its financial disclosures in a way that could mask credit losses.

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• A Newly Opened Investment Tax Gift

  Published: November 27, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Newly, Opened, Investment, Tax, Gift, Barclays Plc, Merrill Lynch Amp Co Inc, David Hariton, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Fortune Magazine, Lehman Brothers Inc, Allan Sloan, Andrew Desouza, Robert Willens, U S Department Of The Treasury, U S House Committee On Ways And Me

  Thanksgiving has just passed; the year-end holidays are around the corner. So in the spirit of the season, I've got a gift for you. Sort of. It's not spiritual or religious, and doesn't even involve food. It's about money. To be specific, it's a way that average investors may one day be able to...

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• Fortune.com Relaunches

  Published: November 27, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Media, Fortune Magazine, Portfolio Magazine

  Fortune.com has a new web site. Looks sleeker, whiter, cleaner. But you can't help but notice that it bears a strikingly close resemblance to this web site.

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• Recession Predictions and Investment Decisions

  Published: December 11, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Recession, Predictions, And, Investment, Decisions, National Bureau Of Economic Research, Bob Hall, Fortune Magazine, Alan Greenspan, Allan Sloan, Ben Bernanke, Stanford University, United States

  Everyone and his brother seems to be talking about recession these days. It dominates every public investment discussion and is the topic 24/7 on cable TV. But let me tell you a little secret: When it comes to investing, the question of whether we're in a recession (or are heading for one) just...

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• Sessler's Soapbox: Bad Fortune

  Published: December 20, 2007, 3:55 pm

  Tags: Sony, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Game Companies, Adam Sessler, Fortune Magazine, G4 Tv, God Of War, Resistance Fall Of Man, Rfom, Soapbox

  soapbox this week to take Fortune Magazine to task. You might recall that earlier this week we mentioned Fortune’s ‘101 Dumbest Moments in Business’ for 2007. Sony managed to make the list twice, once for their beheaded goat at the God of War event, and once for the use of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man and

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• Self-Portrait of a Turnaround Artist

  Published: February 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Self Portrait, Turnaround, Artist, Delphi Corporation, Steve Miller, United Auto Workers, Chrysler Holding Llc, Detroit, Lee Iacocca, Microsoft Powerpoint, Oregon, Federal Mogul Corporation, Fortune Magazine, General Motors Corporation, Reliance Group, Allan Sloan

  You expect corporate crisis mavens like Steve Miller, veteran of a dozen turnarounds, to focus on only one thing at a time. But now, as his career winds down, Miller, 66, is doing two things simultaneously: talking about what he's learned in 30 years of troubleshooting while also trying to show he's...

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• When the Bulls Stopped Running

  Published: March 4, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: When, The, Bulls, Stopped, Running, Roger Ibbotson, United States, Fortune Magazine, Ibbotson Associates Inc, Allan Sloan, Philadelphia, Ted Aronson, National Collegiate Athletic Association

  Although you won't find it listed on your calendar, we're approaching the anniversary of an epochal event. No, it has nothing to do with the NCAA basketball tournament. It's a different kind of March Madness: the end of the bull market that lasted for a generation and changed the way that Americans...

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• Tax-Exempt Funds Yield a Surprise

  Published: March 11, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tax Exempt, Funds, Yield, Surprise, Fortune Magazine, Allan Sloan, Christopher W Alwine, U S Federal Reserve

  It's amazing what you can find when you pay attention to detail. For instance, you might discover, as I did, that you can get a higher yield on a tax-exempt money market mutual fund than on a taxable Treasury fund.

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• Dreams End With Collapse of Tinker Bell Market

  Published: April 1, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Dreams, End, With, Collapse, Tinker, Bell, Market, U S Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns Amp Co Inc, Jp Morgan Chase Amp Co, United States, Fannie Mae, Fortune Magazine, Freddie Mac Holdings, The Federal Home Loan Banks, Allan Sloan, Henry M Pauls

  What in the world is going on here? Why is Washington spending billions to bail out Wall Street titans while leaving struggling homeowners to fend for themselves? Why are the Federal Reserve and the Treasury acting as if they're afraid the world may come to an end, while the stock market seems much...

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• The Ethanol Cure's Side Effects

  Published: April 29, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: The, Ethanol, Cure S, Side, Effects, George W Bush, United States, Allan Sloan, Will Smith, Egypt, Fortune Magazine, Haiti, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia

  Now that milk and gasoline can each cost $3.50 a gallon, filling up your grocery cart or sport-utility vehicle has become an exercise in pain. Most people just wince, pay and get along as best they can. But someone like me can't help but see these price spikes as a nasty side effect of America's...

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• Intelligence Factor

  Published: May 12, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Intelligence, Factor, Matt Schuyler, Steve Jobs, Capital One Financial Corporation, Apple Inc, Arlington, Bethesda, David Rodriguez, Nick Connolly, Booz Allen Hamilton Inc, Fortune Magazine, Marriott International Inc, The Corporate Executive Board Company, U S Census

  Our region does not have a lot of factory jobs. We don't make ketchup. We don't make toilet paper. We don't make steel. Our business, without sounding too pompous, is largely ideas and the execution of them, whether they are moved around town in legal briefs or a consultant's briefcase.

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• Smucker Adds Coffee to Its Breakfast Lineup -- And Does It Tax Free

  Published: June 10, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Smucker, Adds, Coffee, Its, Breakfast, Lineup, And, Does, Tax, Free, Folgers Coffee, Orrville, Allan Sloan, Cincinnati, Robert Willens, Fortune Magazine, Ohio, Pillsbury Crisco

  It looks like a simple corporate transaction negotiated around a kitchen table. J.M. Smucker, the jelly and jam outfit, is buying the Folgers coffee business from Procter & Gamble, creating a breakfast food combo. What could be more down-home? But when you look at the $3.3 billion transaction...

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