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  • Dell Buyout Is Seen Triggering Lawsuits Over CEO’s Role

    Dell Inc.’s $24.4 billion leveraged buyout probably will draw criticism from some shareholders over a potential conflict of interest for founder and chief executive officer Michael S. Dell.

  • Taxpayer Advocate Olson Leads Frustrated Filers Through IRS Maze

    Micah Andrews opened his first notice from the Internal Revenue Service a week before Christmas in 2010. He was standing in the kitchen of the house in the Atlanta suburbs that he and his wife had bought to make space for their new baby.

  • Getco to Consider Buying Knight Shares, Evaluate Investment

    Getco LLC will consider transactions with Knight Capital Group Inc. such as buying or selling shares of the market-making firm that dodged bankruptcy in August.

  • Alliant Energy Seen Luring Warren Buffett in Midwest Power Play: Real M&A

    With Alliant Energy Corp.’s shares approaching an all-time high, the electric utility could help shareholders reap a record profit by selling itself to Warren Buffett or Wisconsin Energy Corp.

  • Suit Won’t Make Goldman Fly Straight: Jonathan Weil

    The satraps of Capitol Hill don’t have much taste for aggressive financial reform. They do have a certain talent, however, for the theater of aggressive reform. And when Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein settles in at the witness table of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Tuesday, that’s what they’ll try to deliver: a moment that crystallizes three years of global disgust with the smart money boys who seem to have played the rest of us for fools.

  • Suit Won’t Make Goldman Fly Straight: Jonathan Weil (Correct)

    The satraps of Capitol Hill don’t have much taste for aggressive financial reform. They do have a certain talent, however, for the theater of aggressive reform. And when Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein settles in at the witness table of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on Tuesday, that’s what they’ll try to deliver: a moment that crystallizes three years of global disgust with the smart money boys who seem to have played the rest of us for fools.

  • Goldman Says SEC Case Hinges on One Employee's Actions

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said the U.S. fraud case against the firm hinges on the actions of the employee it placed on paid leave this week.

  • PPIP’s Steep Tab, GM Swap Traders Adapt: Compliance

    Lenders could lose $168 billion if banks sell loans into the Public-Private Investment Partnership at market prices instead of their balance-sheet valuation, Jamie McGee and Margaret Chadbourn of Bloomberg News report, citing estimates in regulatory filings.

  • Goldman Gambles as Lawyers Say Bank Should Settle With SEC

    Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be better off cutting its losses instead of fighting what it terms “unfounded” fraud claims, say professors of securities law who have examined the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s lawsuit against the bank.

  • Buffett Faults Sokol, Takes Blame for Not Pressing Him on Trades

    David Sokol broke Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s ethics rules by investing in a company as he pushed for its takeover, according to Chairman Warren Buffett , who said he regrets not pressing Sokol earlier for details.

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