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Biden behaves himself in Iraq
Vice President Biden manages to hold his tongue while visiting Baghdad this week … so far. (Reuters)
Ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, Iowa Senator Charles Grassley investigates health plans from insurance giants Aetna and UnitedHealth Group.
(NYT)
After another aggressive bid to take over NRG Energy, rival power company Exelon CEO John Rowe says the $7.5 billion is the best and last offer they’re making. (NYT)
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger pleads with top banks to accept IOUs as a result of its $24 billion budget deficit. (FT)
GM holds a “garage sale” to sell off what assets it can before it’s all auctioned off during bankruptcy hearings, including a golf course, parking lots and contaminated factory sites. What a steal! (Bloomberg)
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Kyle @edmund This controversy certainly does not bode well for Tesla thus far: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/tesl... |
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Kyle Tesla Motors, Inc Looks like a sizable chunk of Tesla's money could go directly into courtroom battles: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/tesl... |
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heaney Auburn University has come up twice in the past week - has produced people like Timothy Cook of Apple and Wayne Smith of Community Health Systems |
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edmund Tesla Motors, Inc received $465 million to build electric car by the Federal government under the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program |
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WileECoyote
@kevin Just pulling the string on the Daschle family. As always there is even more there.... |
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kevin @WileECoyote Daschle seems to pop up everywhere, huh? |
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heaney @kevin Forbes labeled the list "the most powerful women in america" but the list indicates its the most powerful women in business. they have another list from 2008 of the 100 most powerful women in the world http://www.theglasshammer.com/news/2008/0... |
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kevin @heaney are these the most powerful women in business? or Wall Street? or the world? |
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sagaderisa
Interesting article on how to network with venture capitalists, as well as who to network with to figure out power structures within companies: http://bothsidesofthetable.com/2009/06/19... |
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Aleinad I created a list of Obama's 22 (and counting...) czars here: http://littlesis.org/list/26/Obama_White_... Help me populate the czars' profiles, fellow analysts! |








