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Well done, James Franco. I wish someone given me this advice when I graduated college. Instead, I got a handshake from some dude in a robe and a worthless piece of paper that I gave to my parents...
...should shoulder the lion's share of future emissions reductions. But fast-growing developing nations like China, which has already passed the U.S. as the world's top carbon emitter, will be responsible for the majority of future emissions, so any global treaty that completely exempted them would be worthless. That debate - or standoff, really - has all but paralyzed global climate-change negotiations over the past several years. (See pictures of Beijing's attempt to clean...
Goldman Sachs is a giant pig. A giant pig that blows bubbles through a wand shaped like a dollar sign. A giant pig that laughs at us when we invest in worthless dotcom stocks. A giant pig that happily watches us get carried away and burned by rising home prices. A giant pig that smiles widely when we have to fill our tanks with $4-a-gallon gas. Quite simply, the investment bank that is revered on Wall Street could just be a bunch of crooks, and greedy ones at that...
...stock has been delisted, dumped from the Dow, and is pretty much worthless. But with government backing, as they say, even pigs can fly. Indeed, just days after filing for bankruptcy, General Motors Corp. is already plotting a path beyond Chapter 11, including the sale of stranded assets and even an offering of new stock...
...taking a risk here," says Gettelfinger. "We're going into this with an equity value of zero," he added, referring to the virtually worthless stock that both VEBAs are getting in lieu of cash that was owed them by the automakers. Then, pointing to his next battle, he said, "We've got to keep pushing for national health care...