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Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

"Obama officials called the minimal details intentional"

This is because they are in campaign mode. Be vague, make general statements about your goals but don't commit to specifics. This way, each member of your audience will impute his own favored solution into your remarks and support the idea! Once it is being implemented, it will be too late.

"Critics are livid with the industry for handing out $18.4B in bonuses even as the companies reported losses and accepted government funds, and for lavish expenditures including private jets and expensive retreats."

I thought all that money was to stimulate the economy. What is the "stimulative" difference between loaning out the money and buying jets and paying bonuses? I dare say the bank executives seem to spend taxpayers money just as responsibly as our elected officials!

Equity Buyers, Beware of Companies' Big, Bad Balance Sheets

Not just retailers but hotel stocks and hotel REITs are in trouble.