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Scott Jagow

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  • If you want to know what happened at AIG, a new Vanity Fair article gets as deep as anyone's been so far. The author – not surprisingly – is …

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  • Jul 2, 2009

    Morning Reading

    The job numbers are discouraging, although the unemployment rate only ticked up .1% in June. I think the worst statistic is how long people are…

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  • How often does a public company issue a press release telling investors not to buy their stock? GM did it today. It's actually the second time in…

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  • Jul 1, 2009

    I owe you

    California is on the fast track to a financial train wreck. The state legislature and the governor can't agree on how to solve a $24 billion…

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  • This is pretty entertaining/revealing. Fortune has a list of the dumbest moves in business for 2009. There've been a lot of them, and the year's…

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  • Looks like the recession is having a profound effect on where people are living. Census numbers out today show that the population in older cities…

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  • Jul 1, 2009

    Morning Reading

    Debating trickle-down theories, a high school classmate remembers Bernie, a financial column that's actually a chain email(?) and a by-the-mile…

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  • The other day, I pointed out an article in Rolling Stone magazine that's getting a lot of attention. It's called "The Great American Bubble…

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  • I called my pharmacist today to get a prescription refilled, and he said: "Mr. Jagow, did you know there's a new generic version of your drug…

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  • You can bury something that's toxic, but that doesn't mean it won't get you eventually. As I thought about the toxic bank assets, something else…

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