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Small investors are at the mercy of big bankers' greedy antics
While a horde of lobbyists representing big banks and financiers fights every modest effort of the Obama administration to set limits on their clients’ buccaneering ways, JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley have shown, once again, how these pirates of...
Tags: Politics, Banking, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter & Company, Interior Policy, Media Industry
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Facebook shareholders are wedded to the whims of Mark Zuckerberg
So, against all odds, you managed to get your hands on a few shares of Facebook stock via one of the most hyped initial public offerings of all time and managed to survive its messy first day of trading.
Congratulations. You're now married to Mark...Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Companies and Corporations, Zynga Inc., Corporate Officers, Advertising
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Maurice Sendak dies at 83; author of 'Where the Wild Things Are'
He had already been proclaimed "the Picasso of children's books" by Time magazine when Maurice Sendak, then in his 30s, wrote and illustrated "Where the Wild Things Are," a dark fantasy that became one of the 10 bestselling children's books of all time....
Tags: Empire State Building, People (magazine), Science and Technology, Cartoons, Libraries
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Couple's success spreading kabbalah yields to discord, tax probe
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFirst of two parts Philip Berg's new wife was young, beautiful and worldly, everything that he, a middle-aged orthodox rabbi, wasn't. Karen Berg could be pushy too. She brought a television into their home over his objections. She tossed out his...Tags: Personal Service, Mergers, Acquisitions and Takeovers, New Age (genre), Charity, Substance Abuse
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Jon B. Lovelace dies at 84; head of American Funds
Jon B. Lovelace, who led the Los Angeles-based American Funds mutual fund company as it became one of the country's largest money management firms, has died. He was 84.
His family said Lovelace died of natural causes at his home in Santa Barbara on...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Princeton University, John Muir, Getty Center, Yosemite National Park
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Good times for San Antonio's River Walk
Special to the Los Angeles TimesDining alfresco on the famed River Walk has its risks. Trust me. I know. One pleasantly temperate afternoon not long ago, while gearing up to ravage a plate of chicken enchiladas slathered in verde sauce, I unrolled my cloth napkin to fetch the...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, The Monkees (music group), Amusement and Theme Parks, World War II (1939-1945)
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Michael Hiltzik: Angelides vs. Pecora
Money & CompanyThe question of why the Angelides Commission, which just released its report on the financial meltdown of 2007-08 and is the subject of my Sunday column, doesn't resemble the groundbreaking 1933 Pecora investigation into the 1929 crash is one of...... -
Book review: 'A Secret Gift' by Ted Gup
Los Angeles Times"A Secret Gift How One Man's Kindness — and a Trove of Letters — Revealed the Hidden History of the Great Depression" Ted Gup Penguin Press: 368 pp., $25.95 On Dec. 18, 1933, an ad appeared in the Canton, Ohio, paper offering financial...Tags: Plastic Surgeons, Charity, The Washington Post, Consumers, Children
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Exploring Mitchell Caverns in Providence Mountains State Recreation Area
Special to the Los Angeles TimesReporting from the Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, Calif. There's Down Under, like the story on New Zealand on the left side of this page, and then there's down under. I chose the latter. Like that journey, my trip to the Providence...Tags: Landforms, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Caves and Caverns, Mojave National Preserve, Oliver Stone
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Exploring the Depression's artistic legacy in San Francisco
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStocks have crashed, industry is shuddering and banks are failing. The restless unemployed will soon fill the streets. Yet in San Francisco, some crazed optimist in the Pacific Stock Exchange Tower has hired Diego Rivera to decorate a private club for...Tags: Dining and Drinking, U.S. Army, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Monuments and Heritage Sites
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Art Linkletter dies at 97; broadcasting pioneer created 'Kids Say the Darndest Things'
Art Linkletter, the radio and television talk-show pioneer who was best known for eliciting hilarious remarks from the mouths of babes and who late in life was a popular motivational speaker and author, challenging seniors to live as zestfully as he did,...Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Radio, Amusement and Theme Parks, Radio Industry, Health and Safety at School
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Why the economy still feels worse than it looks
Money & CompanyStop with the Great Depression comparisons, already! So argued economist Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that caused a stir in the economics community. Meltzer???s central point was that...
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