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...“The great 2020 money grab” — that’s what Carson Block, the swashbuckling short-seller behind Muddy Waters, declared of special purpose acquisition companies as last year drew to a close....
...But Carson Block, founder of Muddy Waters Capital, says the primary causes of recent market dysfunction are the prevalence of passive investing and leverage....
...Muddy, headed by Carson Block, alleges it has “gotten away with aggressive and unwarranted marks” by manipulating returns metrics and then misleading investors with how it accounts for gains....
...With the share price still depressed, it seems as if the firm run by Carson Block has Burford still firmly sprawled on the canvas. But one investor isn’t buying it....
...DD’s Indap v NYU’s Damodaran: Is stock compensation good or bad?...
...A 2009 Supreme Court case involving prescription drug labels, Wyeth v Levine, greenlighted state laws that are stricter than federal laws....
...Markets say ‘meh’ While the Trump v Clinton battle may be stirring the front page headlines, financial markets seem unconcerned about any outcome, argues the FT’s Dan McCrum....
...(CPI) Number of the day 73% v 28%The proportion of remaining delegates that Sanders would need to win in order to secure the nomination, compared to what Clinton needs....
...Not Mr Carson, apparently....
...the 1990s (Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker) Democrats are headed off their own cliff (Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call) Trump and Sanders could learn from Jesse Jackson (Errol Louis, NYDN) White elites v...
...Trump v Carson While Mr Trump has taken the US political world by storm, his meteoric rise has overshadowed another impressive climb — by Mr Carson, a soft-spoken African-American who emerged from the ghetto...
...They are one of only two families to have three generations of work represented in the Smithsonian (the other is the Wyeth family of painters)....
...Ayer is leaking decisions back to Nehru (Silas Carson), Beaumont to Muslim League leader Jinnah (Paul Bazely)....
...the Analysts, Martoma claimed to have “black edge” —illicit, nonpublic information… The Analysts exchanged a number of emails and instant messages with Cohen about whether Martoma’s advice on Elan and Wyeth...
...Meanwhile here’s the DOJ’s sealed criminal complaint in USA v Martoma....
...US authorities alleged that Mr Martoma recommended trading shares in Elan and Wyeth to the “hedge fund owner”, who people familiar with the matter confirm was Mr Cohen....
...The European Court of Justice’s judgment on the ESM in Pringle v Ireland was delivered on Tuesday. It’s been an interesting case overall (it came up to Luxembourg from Ireland’s supreme court)....
...Selections by Ángel Gurría-Quintana … POETRY Red Doc> , by Anne Carson, Jonathan Cape, RRP£12/Knopf, RRP$24.95 In her follow-up to Autobiography of Red , Carson renames her winged hero Geryon as “G”...
...As the extraordinarily long title of Vijay V....
...A Way in the World, by V. S. Naipaul, Knopf, 1994, Cover by Carol Devine Carson In many ways, V. S....
...the fair to their collections and two invested in glass: the National Museum of Wales bought a piece by Rachael Woodman for £7,500 (although small works by this glassmaker were on offer for £600) and the V&...
...The court will decide whether to shield drugmakers from many costly patient lawsuits, agreeing to hear Wyeth v Levine, a case that tests whether companies are protected from liability when federal regulators...
...ZOOM: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...Zoom: The Global Race to Fuel the Car of the Future By Iain Carson and Vijay V....
...• Zoom, by Iain Carson and Vijay V Vaitheeswaran The book describes how Big Oil and the world’s carmarkers are striving to meet the challenge of developing new fuels and technologies....
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