Sacramento Topics

Dan Walters: Making California pension funds' real estate deals secret only compounds mistake
April 14, 2013

Critics question investment fund's Sacramento rental venture
April 08, 2013

Proposed California law would shield public real estate deals
February 24, 2013

Personal Finance: Financial writer Peter Sander weighs in on how to pick stocks
January 20, 2013

Nicholas D. Kristof: Chess, champs, education and charity
February 01, 2013

Congress passes insider trading ban, but is it tough enough?
March 22, 2012

Where that Corporate Personhood Push Is Going
June 03, 2013
Keep your hands off:Mining pharmacy records, the company assembled profiles of hundreds of thousands of American doctors and millions of individual patients,...

Sam Pizzigati: These Hedges Need Trimming
June 03, 2013
May 29, 2013 - They're hunkering down at SAC Capital, the hedge fund empire of billionaire Steven A. Cohen. Federal prosecutors have been picking off SAC's...

Lee A. Sheppard: Your Mitt Romney Tax Issues Cheat Sheet
August 15, 2012
Aug. 15, 2012 - While his wife's part-owned dressage horse was competing in the Olympics, former Massachusetts Gov. Willard M. Romney was stateside, engaged in...

FDIC: Credit Risk in the Shared National Credit Portfolio Declines, but Remains High
August 27, 2012
August 27, 2012 - The credit quality of large loan commitments owned by U.S. banking organizations, foreign banking organizations (FBOs), and nonbanks improved...

"Cyberazzi" – Data Mining Companies Investigated for Invasion of Privacy
January 22, 2013
Jan. 21, 2103 - The paparazzi hide in bushes and use telephoto lenses to snap pictures of celebrities. The "cyberazzi" parachute into web browsers and sneak up...

Robert Reich: Mitt Romney and the New Gilded Age
July 02, 2012
June 30, 2012 - The election of 2012 raises two perplexing questions. The first is how the GOP could put up someone for president who so brazenly epitomizes the...

Global stocks slide led by Tokyo on worries
June 13, 2013 | indystar.com
Japanese media reports said overseas hedge funds may be dumping Japan's equities following disappointment over the Bank of Japan's decision earlier in the week to refrain from...

Royals 3, Tigers 2: Offense, defense fail Doug Fister in complete game loss
June 10, 2013 | Bless You Boys
I should think a horticulturalist would be a natural at hedge funds. kland83 Just make sure it has a Rob Rogacki Like you said, he's a good GM Verlanderful Miggy due for a...

Despite Naming Coincidence, Palantir Says It's Not Part Of PRISM Program
June 07, 2013 | TechCrunch
This software has been licensed to banks and hedge funds for quantitative analysis and research.'' The startup explains that the Prism software in question is for banks, not...

I am James Altucher, founder of 20 companies (17 of which failed), author of 11 books,...
June 06, 2013 | reddit.com: what's new online
I've founded 20 companies, ranging from hedge funds to dating websites, most of which have failed. A few have made million dollar exits. I blew that on expensive toys, trips...

Hedge Funds Now Open to Non- Wealthy Suckers, Also
May 28, 2013 | Gawker
It used to be that only the very rich had the opportunity to lose money by investing in hedge funds. Now, you can too! Read more... ...

UK Ministry of Justice denies that the court system is to be sold to hedge funds
May 28, 2013 | Boing Boing
The UK Ministry of Justice has denied a report in The Times that claimed the courts were to be privatised and paid for henceforth through hedge fund investments made in...