My good friend and blogger extraordinaire Barry Ritholtz wrote such a compelling post yesterday about the SEC that I thought it was worth sharing with footnoted.org readers. Here it is in its...

Last we checked, Freddie Mac (FRE) was still operating under a conservatorship, having received over $51 billion in taxpayer money. And, we seem to recall lots of chest-beating last year about...

As most footnoted regulars know, we’ve read a lot of employment contracts and severance agreements over the years. Way too many to count, in fact. But the agreement with former Chief Operating...

Earlier this week, I bought an airline ticket to Washington for a meeting next week. In the past, I’ve taken Amtrak or my new favorite, Bolt Bus, but flying — even booking just a week in advance

Ever since Amazon announced that it was acquiring the privately held Zappos last week for just over $800 million, the internet has been ablaze about whether Zappos was forced to sell...

We’ve been skeptical about the deal between Xerox and ACS ever since it was announced on Sept. 28. As we wrote over on Research Edge last month, after the S-4 was filed, this seemed like an awfully good deal for ACS Chairman Darwin Deason and a few...

On Friday night, I went to a screening of Food Inc. with Director Robert Kenner at the Phillipstown Depot, the former train station in Garrison that has been turned into a small theater. After the screening, Kenner took questions from the audience and...

This morning, there’s lots of buzz — unassisted by caffeine — over the fight over Diedrich Coffee (DDRX) which Peet’s (PEET) agreed to buy at the beginning of this month for $26 a share, but is now offering $32 a share after rival Green Mountain Coffee...

Earlier this week, Applied Materials (AMAT) announced that it was acquiring Semitool (SMTL) in a $364 million all-cash deal. As we’ve footnoted before, Semitool had an interesting side-deal with CEO Ray Thompson that had the company leasing several...

Yesterday, there was a hearing in New York over the Lehman bankruptcy where Lehman CEO Bryan Marsal, who we’ve written about several times over the past year (see here and here). The big headline out of yesterday’s hearing was Marsal’s statement that...