Bohemian Rhapsody on Classical Guitar

March Madness! Baby boy on Tennessee Game Day and cute 1930’s boy!

Big Trial starts tomorrow: Interesting Litigation still pending in Levi Strauss Co, “Little Rock Six” Whistleblower termination suit.

The following is published at Wikipedia, here:
Pending SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) Litigation:

Levi Strauss & Co.
Robert Schmidt and Thomas Walsh had significant leadership roles at Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co), as directors of the global tax department.[21] While employed by LS&Co. in that capacity, they were instructed to withhold material documents from the IRS and to limit information [...]

Criticisms of Sarbanes-Oxley: making companies play fair and yet still allowing them to compete globally is hard. :)

The following was Found at Wikipedia, here:
Detractors such as congressman Ron Paul contend that SOX was an unnecessary and costly government intrusion into corporate management that places U.S. corporations at a competitive disadvantage with foreign firms, driving businesses out of the United States. In an April 14, 2005 speech before the U.S. House of Representatives, [...]

Wall Street Braces for biggest overhaul since Great Depression.

The following is an excerpt from this article at BusinessWeek.com today:
“While Wall Street faces the biggest overhaul of its regulatory structure since the Great Depression (and since the often decried Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 -these parenthese added by blogger, not original to article), analysts are already wondering if the plan to be announced by Treasury [...]

Jim Rogers says U.S. Should Abolish the Federal Reserve Bank on CNBC, 3/12/08

New home sales have tumbled 29.8 percent in the past 12 months, inventory is highest since the 1980’s.

The following is an excerpt from http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOHEUanF4jOnzmVuKbYJJ1l4XBQQ, published on 3/26/08:
“New home sales have tumbled a dramatic 29.8 percent in the past 12 months as a multiyear slump continues to deflate the American residential property market despite sustained Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.
The Fed has slashed US rates since September, partly in a bid to [...]

Baby’s first snowman!

Why we celebrate Easter.

The following is an excerpt from The Season After Easter – A Magnificent Eucatastrophe!
By Douglas W. Kmiec
published 3/25/2008 at www.catholic.org
“A eucatastrope, said Tolkien, is “the joy in a sudden glimpse of the underlying reality or truth.” Quite simply, a good ending not expected. Surely, to the frightened apostles on Good Friday, this was the meaning [...]

“We’re in Challenging times.” -President George W. Bush after hearing about Bear Stearns bail out.

Excerpt from original article (click to read.) by
Sam Zuckerman, San Francisco Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 18, 2008:
“The extraordinary unraveling of securities giant Bear Stearns Cos., one of the pillars of the Wall Street establishment, has taken the anxiety gripping the nation’s financial markets to a whole new level, threatening to deepen the agony of [...]