Minor Little Accounting Error?

 

1. New York A.G Eliot Spitzer is getting Insurance Company CEOs into early retirement.

   Last month Warren Buffett (Democrat Nebraska) met with Mr. Spitzer.

   Posted by Z Woof       05/02/2005  at  11:35 AM  



2. We know TaRAYsa Heinz Kerry paid some income tax but what about her Heinz Family Foundations which have billions of dollars in assets.  They are so-called Non Profits.  If one Non Profit can make hundreds of millions of dollars annually, how much did all of them make collectively

   Let’s tax the hell out of the Heinz Family Foundation, for the children. 

   Posted by Z Woof       05/02/2005  at  12:24 PM  



3. Sar-Box is a joke.  I have been a CFO for the last twenty years, it was written by CPA’s and attorneys in conjunction with the SEC the same group that was “watching” over Enron, MCI et al.  All it has accomplished is the justification of higher fees from those vultures.  Do you really think ANYTHING congress does is going to be effective?  have you flown lately?  arent you glad they decided to make TSA a government agency??????

   Posted by DixieKraut       05/02/2005  at  01:14 PM  



4. Hey, as of 3:09pm edt, AIG Up 2.53 = 4.98%

   I don’t get it…

   Posted by Fine Old Cannibal       05/02/2005  at  02:10 PM  



5. the stock had already dropped over 30% in the past few months.  the market always anticipates these things.  In the case of AIG, this is not like Enron or MCI.  2.5 billion sounds like a lot, but thier market cap is $139 billion and was nearly 200 billion just a few months ago.  so relatively speaking not a big deal.

   Posted by DixieKraut       05/02/2005  at  02:28 PM  



6. Let me correct one thing, Alan. If you had stolen $2,500,000 you’d go to jail and get those well deserved benefits you enumerated.

   If you stole $2,500,000,000 you’d have teams of lawyers, CPA’s, etc. to protect you and Senators, Congresscritters and judges lining up to kiss your ass.

   It’s sort of like that old thing about banks. If you borrow a million bucks the bank owns you. If you borrow a billion, you own the bank.

   Posted by StinKerr       05/02/2005  at  04:47 PM  



7. Oops, here’s the extra ‘l’ I omitted. Sorry. Won’t happen again.

   Posted by StinKerr       05/02/2005  at  04:48 PM  



8. Allan, if they manage to get that “oversexed roommate from the Ozarks” locked up, I will be able to forgive them a lot of other shortcomings.....

   

   Posted by Tannenberg       05/02/2005  at  06:43 PM  



9. Z Woof,

   You took the words out of my mouth:  Calling Elliot Spitzer.....  Talk about a man with a goal.....  Shew!

   I hope he has a team of bodyguards equivalent to the Secret Service.  I want him around for a long time.

   Posted by Phoenix       05/02/2005  at  06:52 PM  



10. Skipper:

    “Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.”

    --Goethe
    
    

    Posted by Tannenberg       05/03/2005  at  09:50 AM  

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