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Citigroup: Another Management Failure We’ll Rescue

Citigroup has been in the new recently, since they announced that they’ll eliminate another 52,000 jobs, on top of a previously announced 22,000. Citigroup had a peak employment of 375,000 in 2007 so 1 out of 5 Citigroup emloyees have been affected. According to news reports about 1/2 the reductions will come from business sales. [...]

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Circuit City Implosion

The recent news about the Circuit City bankruptcy tends to blame it on the economy and competition from the internet. Sorry folks, seems to me this was clearly due to wounds inflicted by it’s own poor management. The only good news is that there doesn’t appear to be any taxpayer bailout money involved. I used [...]

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Can We Go Back? Please!

A couple finance stories caught my eye recently. While stockholders in general are bummed about the state of the market, there’s a couple groups that are more bummed than others. At least others can see an upside down the road (even if it’s years down the road), but Yahoo and and Circuit City owners may [...]

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Paid For Failure

According to Fox News Washington Mutual’s new CEO will be paid $20 million for his 17 days on the job before his company collapsed. MSNBC.COM lays out a scenario where taxpayers could pay billions. U.S. taxpayers, meantime, could end up shouldering billions of dollars worth of shaky mortgages and other investments that contributed to WaMu’s [...]

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