From Pine View Farm

November, 2009 archive

Tool Kit 0

Giant Swiss Army Knife

Read about it here.

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The Fee Hand of the Market 0

Possible price fixing by Wall Street banksters. Oh, noes.

Only after the Internal Revenue Service investigated five years later did local officials learn that Rubin’s firm, CDR Financial Products Inc., had entered into a secret side agreement with the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank. CDR’s share would be worth as much as $340,000, based on city and federal records.

“IRS believes that CDR, Bank of America and possibly others may have colluded to fix pricing,” an unidentified Atlanta employee wrote in an undated internal memorandum after city authorities met with IRS investigators in September 2005.

Who woulda thunk?

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Twits on Twitter (and Elsewhere) 0

That about providing good value for the money?

Nah. Too simple.

From Facebook to Twitter to YouTube, retailers and food chains plan to use social media this holiday season to get their brands in front of consumers and possibly win a bigger piece of their limited shopping budgets.

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Day of Rest 0

I’m taking the day off.

When I haven’t been eating and sleeping, I’ve been napping.

The regularly scheduled invective returns tomorrow.

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