Tuesday March 8, 2016

GOLDMAN ADVISER TO 1MDB QUIT AFTER ALLEGED VIOLATIONS

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner who handled deals for the controversial Malaysian state investment fund known as 1MDB, which was involved in power plants, an oil company and a petroleum investment firm, was suspended and later quit after investigators found he allegedly violated company policies, Justin Baer and Ken Brown report.

Goldman placed Tim Leissner, its Southeast Asia chairman, on leave after a review of his email found that he had allegedly sent an unauthorized reference letter on behalf of an individual to another financial firm in 2015. The letter also included statements that Goldman believes to be inaccurate. The letter wasn’t linked to business that Goldman did for the Malaysian fund, and the firm has found nothing wrong with his dealings with the fund.

In Brazil, pressure is building to oust President Dilma Rousseff following last week’s police questioning of her political mentor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, in connection with the Petróleo Brasileiro SA corruption scandal, Paulo Trevisani and Marla Dickerson report.

Friday March 4, 2016

This write notes that McLendon's actions actually kept leasing costs down.

Usually one is indicted for artificially raising costs.

Friday March 4 2016

Eye in the Sky is a tick tock thriller.

the plot revolves around the decision to unleash a drone strike on suspected terrorists before they can do more harm. The hitch of course is that nearby civilians will also likely be killed.

Helen Mirren and Alan Rickman star, regrettably Alan has died so this is his last screen role.

This would be a good topic for the ethics class.

thursday March 3, 2016

How He Did It is explained in his own book,the Art of the Deal

This is a good topic for our ethics discussion in class this saturday. Back in his hey day, Cassius Clay observed

Just make sure folks are talkin' bout ya

Don't matter what they say

Trump took that admonition and built on it. The clues were in plain sight, the book was published three decades ago but none of his competitors took it seriously.

Chaos in the competition only nelps Trump.

Egoism among the competitors keeps three in the race dividing the vote so Trump is guaranteed the most votes by the convention.

Dan Henninger says it is time for The Speech.

Is Cruz or Rubio (who has yet to win a single state) capable of doing that and would it turn the tide at this point?

IN another column McGurn suggested that the Trump promises are an echo of Arnold S run and time as governor, hmm, how did that work out?