Government corruption: The real public school crime wave

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Watching these clips you can begin to understand why 47% of Detroiters do not pay their taxes - poor, or no services we don't pay you. Parents leave their children to swim in this toxic educational swill because their own generation was washed through the same brain flush of values and Americanism.

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The real public school crime wave Principals, administrators, board members
 
Rampant, pervasive, institutionalized
This clip from the documentary film "The Cartel," by Bob Bowdon, discusses the corruption occurring in some of New Jersey's Public Schools.

For more information, visit the film's website:

http://www.TheCartelMovie.com



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Government corruption: The real public school crime wave

Eric Sprott: Is the West Dishoarding Its Sovereign Treasure? *podcast*

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PodcastAnd if so, what will happen once it's done? by Adam TaggartSaturday, February 23, 2013, 9:10 AM

We are well into the financial crisis. Everyone’s trying to keep it together, even though it would appear from the reading of the economy things are not going well at all here. And everyone's ignoring things.

But I think, in their hearts, the Central Bankers must know what they’re doing is totally irresponsible. And the tell of that irresponsibility – which is the debasing of the currencies – is the fact that real things will go up in value. This should be reflected in the price of gold and silver.

So expresses Eric Sprott, CEO and founder of Sprott Asset Management, and one of the most experienced and vocal advocates for owning precious metals.

The past decade has validated Eric's thesis, as gold has risen considerably against all world fiat currencies. But what vexes him is that in recent years, when currency debasement has accelerated to extreme levels, precious metals prices have been clearly suppressed, particularly versus the U.S. dollar.

As the topic of price manipulation is nothing new, Eric finds his focus increasingly drawn to where the precious metals are going at these bargain prices - who is accumulating and who is dishoarding:

I’ve done a lot of work on the flow of metals. I come up with a net change of 2,300 tons a year in new buying in gold when the supply of gold hasn’t even gone up in the last twelve years. And you keep wondering: Well, where’s all this gold coming from?

His findings support the growing meme that there is a massive bullion transfer from West to East. This should particularly concern those in the U.S., EU and Canada as his suspicion is that, increasingly, it's monetary gold that is being sold.

There are several key questions to ask here (not that the data publicly exists to answer them):

• How much of our sovereign monetary bullion reserves have been sold to date?
• How much will be sold in the future? (Are we willing to sell all of it? or is there a limit we refuse to let go of?)
• What will happen to the price of gold & silver when central banks stop selling to another? (Answer: shoot the moon)
• What will be the fate of those economies that dishorded their treasure? (Answer: lamentable)

When I see China buying 95 tons of gold in December and I read that India bought 100 tons in the month of January, when we all collectively know there’s only about 200 tons a month available –  you have to conclude that G6 Central Banks continue to sell their gold in a very non-transparent fashion.

One of the things we saw in December was that the U.S. Department of Commerce reported that U.S. exports of gold were $4 billion. We exported 2.5 million ounces of gold. And where it comes from, [only] God knows; the country only produces 8.8 million a nd most of that’s used internally. So I don’t know how you just come up with 2.5 million ounces that you’re able to export. So I believe that even though it’s described as non-monetary gold, my guess is that it is monetary gold.

There’s lots afoot here in central banking to try to keep it organized. And I think one of those things is to keep the price suppressed.

But the non-G6 nations have been huge buyers of gold, and I think the more anybody looks at the system from outside looking in, they realize they have to have gold and silver, notwithstanding the nonsense that goes on in COMEX and the LBMA (London Bullion Market Association).

When I got involved in the gold market, it was assumed that the central banks had something like 36,000 tons of gold. And there was a great study done by Frank Veneroso where he suggests 18,000 those tons didn’t even exist anymore.
The [global] central banks are sellers of 400 tons in an overt fashion. Now we see buying of over 500 tons. That, just in itself, is a 900-ton change in a 4000-ton market, if I’m including recyclables here. And yet there’s been no increase in supply.

So I have to assume that these central banks are running low, and the question in my mind is, do they just go down to zero and then give up?

Or do they look in the cupboards one day and say look, this is just not going to work because the intensity of buying by people, like China in particular, has just gone absolutely bonkers. And it looks like India, notwithstanding putting a surtax or excise tax on gold, the demand seems to be very firm. And as you mentioned, mint sales have been amazingly strong here.

So I think there’s enough element of the world who get it that the pressure’s going to continue to be on the price of gold going higher. And yes, there’s nothing we can do in terms of what’s going on in the COMEX and the LBMA, but we keep seeing more and more people asking for delivery, even in the COMEX. So I think that the day can’t be far off. We can’t predict when it’s going to be, but the natural stage should be that the price of gold is going up, and we’re in such a tremendous financial crisis that it hasn’t been allowed to manifest itself because they’re putting out fires all the time.

For precious metals holders licking their wounds from the carnage of the past several months, this podcast offers both new insights and sound reminders of the long-term reasons for owning gold and silver. Those on the sidellines considering entering into the precious metals, perhaps for the first time, should consider reading our guide to Buying Gold & Silver after listening to this podcast.

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Trading the Fear & Greed Gold Price Parameters

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Determining the ups 'n downs of the precious metals has been an adventure to nowhere for all of us. Understanding the algorithms of the banksters has been a futile exercise without a whistleblower. We know they concentrate their heavy paper trade dumps between 7AM -11AM when the LBMA is active. Certainly no one dumps 50,000+ contracts at the slowest time of the daily trading in hopes of a profit! Physical spot prices are derived from paper trading, this we know. There will always be speculators, independents and hedgers in there. In a normal free market trading without manipulation and price suppressions that would be wonderful. But, that's not the way it is.

So, let's take a glimpse of the extreme divergences of the Gold price from its WEEKLY 50-week Mov. Avg. Quite simple actually; a chart a neophyte can comprehend.

The "Fear" (capitulation) extreme was in late 2008 when gold's price went 17% below its 50wma.  Gold had never dipped below its WMA since that occasion...ever. I suppose a technician could draw a support line beneath -1%, -6%, and -5%. But, that's not the intention of this presentation. The "Greed" (enthusiasm) peaks have been 28%, 11% and 7% since 2011.

We have tried to represent the emotional reactions of buyers/sellers in graphic form as to what human actions may be in the crystal ball for the future.

We don't know. But factor in all your fundamentals along with more paper confetti money from the Fed, and go from there.

Naturally, where gold goeth, silver followeth.
click image for larger view You are free to create your own free charts from Netdania.

E-Mails Show Criminal Flaws in JPMorgan’s Mortgage Securities

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By JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG 

The bank is being sued over
mortgage-backed deals.
Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s
chief.

When an outside analysis uncovered serious flaws with thousands of home loans, JPMorgan Chase executives found an easy fix.

Rather than disclosing the full extent of problems like fraudulent home appraisals and overextended borrowers, the bank adjusted the critical reviews, according to documents filed early Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan. As a result, the mortgages, which JPMorgan bundled into complex securities, appeared healthier, making the deals more appealing to investors.

The trove of internal e-mails and employee interviews, filed as part of a lawsuit by one of the investors in the securities, offers a fresh glimpse into Wall Street’s mortgage machine, which churned out billions of dollars of securities that later imploded. The documents reveal that JPMorgan, as well as two firms the bank acquired during the credit crisis, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns, flouted quality controls and ignored problems, sometimes hiding them entirely, in a quest for profit.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Dexia, a Belgian-French bank, is being closely watched on Wall Street. After suffering significant losses, Dexia sued JPMorgan and its affiliates in 2012, claiming it had been duped into buying $1.6 billion of troubled mortgage-backed securities.

The latest documents could provide a window into a $200 billion case that looms over the entire industry. In that lawsuit, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, has accused 17 banks of selling dubious mortgage securities to the two housing giants. At least 20 of the securities are also highlighted in the Dexia case, according to an analysis of court records.

In court filings, JPMorgan has strongly denied wrongdoing and is contesting both cases in federal court. The bank declined to comment.

Dexia’s lawsuit is part of a broad assault on Wall Street for its role in the 2008 financial crisis, as prosecutors, regulators and private investors take aim at mortgage-related securities. New York’s attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, sued JPMorgan last year over investments created by Bear Stearns between 2005 and 2007.

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan’s chief executive, has criticized prosecutors for attacking JPMorgan because of what Bear Stearns did. Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in October, Mr. Dimon said the bank did the federal government “a favor” by rescuing the flailing firm in 2008.

The legal onslaught has been costly. In November, JPMorgan, the nation’s largest bank, agreed to pay $296.9 million to settle claims by the Securities and Exchange Commission that Bear Stearns had misled mortgage investors by hiding some delinquent loans. JPMorgan did not admit or deny wrongdoing.

“The true price tag for the ongoing costs of the litigation is terrifying,” said Christopher Whalen, managing director at Carrington Investment Services.

The Dexia lawsuit centers on complex securities created by JPMorgan, Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual during the housing boom. As profits soared, the Wall Street firms scrambled to pump out more investments, even as questions emerged about their quality.

With a seemingly insatiable appetite, JPMorgan scooped up mortgages from lenders with troubled records, according to the court documents. In an internal “due diligence scorecard,” JPMorgan ranked large mortgage originators, assigning Washington Mutual and American Home Mortgage the lowest grade of “poor” for their documentation, the court filings show.

The loans were quickly sold to investors. Describing the investment assembly line, an executive at Bear Stearns told employees “we are a moving company not a storage company,” according to the court documents.

As they raced to produce mortgage-backed securities, Washington Mutual and Bear Stearns also scaled back their quality controls, the documents indicate.

In an initiative called Project Scarlett, Washington Mutual slashed its due diligence staff by 25 percent as part of an effort to bolster profit. Such steps “tore the heart out” of quality controls, according to a November 2007 e-mail from a Washington Mutual executive. Executives who pushed back endured “harassment” when they tried to “keep our discipline and controls in place,” the e-mail said.

Even when flaws were flagged, JPMorgan and the other firms sometimes overlooked the warnings.

JPMorgan routinely hired Clayton Holdings and other third-party firms to examine home loans before they were packed into investments. Combing through the mortgages, the firms searched for problems like borrowers who had vastly overstated their incomes or appraisals that inflated property values.

According to the court documents, an analysis for JPMorgan in September 2006 found that “nearly half of the sample pool” — or 214 loans — were “defective,” meaning they did not meet the underwriting standards. The borrowers’ incomes, the firms found, were dangerously low relative to the size of their mortgages. Another troubling report in 2006 discovered that thousands of borrowers had already fallen behind on their payments.

But JPMorgan at times dismissed the critical assessments or altered them, the documents show. Certain JPMorgan employees, including the bankers who assembled the mortgages and the due diligence managers, had the power to ignore or veto bad reviews.

In some instances, JPMorgan executives reduced the number of loans considered delinquent, the documents show. In others, the executives altered the assessments so that a smaller number of loans were considered “defective.”

In a 2007 e-mail, titled “Banking overrides,” a JPMorgan due diligence manager asks a banker: “How do you want to handle these loans?” At times, they whitewashed the findings, the documents indicate. In 2006, for example, a review of mortgages found that at least 1,154 loans were more than 30 days delinquent. The offering documents sent to investors showed only 25 loans as delinquent.

A person familiar with the bank’s portfolios said JPMorgan had reviewed the loans separately and determined that the number of delinquent loans was far less than the outside analysis had found.
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Poland Still Fearful of JP Morgan's Wrath which it Accuses of Manipulating Poland's Equity Markets

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After nearly four years we have seen no subsequent stories, follow-ups, or resolution to this story - - anyone have any info? Where are the financial journalist sleuths to sniff out the truth?
The government is investigating JP Morgan's activities in Poland

1st December 2008


Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak has announced that the government will investigate financial services firm JP Morgan's activities in Poland, and will ask the US authorities for an explanation.

Concerns emerged in late November when the Polish Financial Supervision Authority (KNF) stated that it had reason to suspect that JP Morgan had been involved in manipulation of the blue-chip WIG20 index on November 12. That session ended in a 9.1 percent loss for the index. The KNF has contacted the Prosecutor's Office.

Waldemar Pawlak, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy, Poland

The loss resulted from a series of buy orders placed shortly before the close of trade, which pushed the WIG20 up five percent, and the KNF claims the orders came from JP Morgan Securities Limited in Great Britain. The buy orders, worth zł.130 million, were made for the stock of all 20 companies on the blue-chip index.

"The accusations presented by the KNF are serious. This looks like manipulation. It is good that the KNF has handled this issue so well," said Wiesław Rozlucki, a former president of the WSE toldRzeczpospolita.

This is not the first time JP Morgan has courted controversy in Poland. Earlier this autumn it issued a report which claimed that Poland's economy was in worse shape than Hungary's. "In the case of a crisis [the Polish economy] would be left almost with no reserves," the report stated.

In October, the firm also lowered its GDP growth predictions for Central and Eastern Europe, with Poland's 2009 growth estimated at 1.5 percent, half of what has been forecast by the National Bank of Poland and the EC.

JP Morgan's activities have aroused suspicion but Rozłucki did not think all these issues were connected. "I do not suspect any plot by JP Morgan. I reject suggestions that this could be a coordinated action," he said.

As WBJ went to press, JP Morgan was still working on an official statement on this matter and was thus unable to comment.

From Warsaw Business Journal 

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The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts & Plans to Take Them

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Bankers need your money more than you do. It's the patriotic thing to do.

February 22, 2013

The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts

By John White

Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag.

 

Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Cordray, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Bloomberg reported "[t]he U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency's first foray into consumer investments."  That thought generates some skepticism, as aptly expressed by the Richard Terrell cartoon  published by American Thinker.

 

Days later On January 24th President Obama renominated Cordray as CFPB director even though his recess appointment was not due to expire until the end of 2013.

 

One day later, in the first significant resistance to President Obama's concentration of presidential power, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC unanimously said that Obama's Recess Appointments to the National Labor Relations Board are unconstitutional.  Similar litigation testing the Cordray appointment to the CFPB is in the pipeline.

 

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the 2,319 page Dodd-Frank legislation is a new and little known bureau with wide-ranging powers.  

 

Placed within the Federal Reserve, a corporation privately owned by member banks, the CFPB is insulated from oversight by either the President or Congress, its budget not subject to legislative control.  It is not even clear that a new President can replace the CFPB director on taking office.

 

Unusual legal and political environments have a significant impact on the CFPB. With Cordray's recess appointment in doubt several questions remain unanswered. 

 

1) What will become of the CFPB when Cordray's appointment is found invalid?  An indicator comes from the NRLB, which operated unconstitutionally for years without a quorum.  In 2007 the Senate threatened no NLRB nominations reported out of committee.

 

The NLRB continued operating with two members.  Then a Supreme Court ruling in June of 2010 invalidated the NLRB decisions for lack of a quorum.  Fisher & Phillips give the details about what was done next.

But recovery from the Supreme Court's sting was quick, with Liebman and Schaumber still on the Board and with two new Members confirmed, ... the suddenly full-strength Board simply added a new Member to the "rump panel" of the original decisions and managed to rubber-stamp many of the disputed Orders - at a record-setting pace - with the same result...

This may explain why President Obama renominated Cordray a year early.  Once confirmed Cordray can rubber-stamp decisions made while he was unconstitutionally appointed.  Otherwise those decisions will be invalidated.

 

2) What will the CFPB do with your money?  The CFPB incursion into individual personal savings, in order to control how you invest your money, isn't a new idea. Current proposals grew from a policy analysis as disclosed by Roger Hedgecock.

On Nov. 20, 2007, Theresa Ghilarducci, professor of economic policy analysis at the New School for Social Research in New York, presented a paper proposing that the feds eliminate the tax deferral for private retirement accounts, confiscate the balance of those accounts, give each worker a $600 annual "contribution," assess a mandatory savings tax on every worker and guarantee a 3 percent rate of return on the newly titled "Guaranteed Retirement Accounts," or GRAs.

How would that be accomplished?  The Carolina Journal reported Ghilarducci's 2008 testimony to Nancy Pelosi's House.

Democrats in the U.S. House have been conducting hearings on proposals to confiscate workers' personal retirement accounts "including 401(k)s and IRAs" and convert them to accounts managed by the Social Security Administration.

Your Government universal GRA investment savings account is an annuity managed by Social Security.  Hedgecock noted '[m]ake no mistake here: Obama is after your retirement money. The "annuities" will "invest" not in the familiar packages of bond and stock mutual funds but in the Treasury debt!' 

By 2010 Bloomberg published an article titled  "US Government Takes Two More Steps Toward Nationalization of Private Retirement Account Assets." In that article Patrick Heller observed that, with Democrat control of Congress and the Presidency:

[I]n mid-September 2010 the Departments of Labor and Treasury held hearings on the next step toward achieving Ghilarducci's goals. The stated purpose was to require all private plans to offer retirees an option to elect an annuity. The "behind-the-scenes" purpose for this step was to get people used to the idea that the retirement assets they had accumulated would no longer be part of their estate when they died.

So the Government would get the money, not the estate or family of the people who saved the money during a lifetime of work.  That's a one hundred percent death tax on savings.  Worse, the most responsible and poorest families will be penalized.

 

Democrats had a blueprint for diverting people's savings from private investment to government debt.  Then in 2010 the Tea Party won the house...

 

3) Why should the Government intervene in people's savings decisions?  The justifications for Government intervention in private financial decisions are varied.  Panic over the economy, Wall Street, mandating savings equity, eliminating investment risk, financial crisis losses, retirement security, much-needed oversight, your 401K becomes a 201K, shoddy financial products, and predatory investment bankers are just a few. 

If the financial industry is so predatory, how is it possible that savers keep any money?  More importantly, we have all those government agencies, FDIC, FINRA, SEC, Labor Department, Treasury Department, NCUA, Office of Thrift Supervision, FHFA, NCUSIF, Comptroller of the Currency, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, hundreds of criminal penalties, and state level regulators.  Are we admitting the Government is incapable of policing criminal and predatory behavior?  Do we have invincible predators plundering the people, or do politicians Cry Wolf?

 

And about that crisis in the economy.  Former Congressman Barney Frank, one of the authors of Dodd-Frank, admitted to Larry Kudlow that Government was to blame for the housing crisis.

 

Professor Ghilarducci said "humans often lack the foresight, discipline, and investing skills required to sustain a savings plan."  Professor Ghilarducci tells us that people are flawed, no argument there.

 

Her solution, substitute Government decisions for the judgment of the millions of people who actually earned and saved the money.  She fails to mention the government bureaucrats wielding the power to compel you to comply are themselves imperfect.  Which is preferable, one faulty Government solution or millions of individual free choices?

 

4) Are there other forces pushing Government to confiscate people's savings?  With $16 trillion in debt the short answer is yes.  When governments embark on a path of spending money they don't have, they resort to financial repression.  According to Wikipedia: 

Financial repression is any of the measures that governments employ to channel funds to themselves, that, in a deregulated market, would go elsewhere. Financial repression can be particularly effective at liquidating debt.

Do we have any evidence that the US Government is pursuing financial repression?  Yes we do. Jeff Cox at CNBC.  "US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government's debt-a move that could end up making the debt crisis even worse, a Citigroup analysis says."

An Investors Business Daily article, Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debts, notes that "[b]anks can't say no. They fear the political fallout. So they meekly submit to the government's dictates."

Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal reports that "[i]n 2011, the Fed purchased a stunning 61% of Treasury issuance."  Then a CNS News article revealed that  "[s]o far this calendar year [2013], the Federal Reserve has bought up more U.S. government debt than the U.S. Treasury has issued."

5) Is the health of Social Security (SS) a factor? There are several potential measures of when Social Security retirement goes broke.  One measure is when FICA tax income doesn't cover the cost of retirement checks.  We have passed that point already.  Others say that SS is fine until the lock box runs out of special issue bonds (IOUs).

Even though the SS bonds in the lock box cannot be sold on the open market, the Treasury Department remains under political pressure to honor that obligation by borrowing real cash to redeem the IOUs.   At least until the IOUs in the lock box are gone.  How long is that?  Based on a credible source, Bruce Krasting at Zerohedge suggests not long...Continue reading...

You can see a clip from 2 years ago from Bob Chapman (since deceased) on the danger of leaving your retirement in a 401K, IRA. etc. Gets into the 401K at the 7min. mark.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=E6zwrKr_vpg

127 corporations that want to "Fix the Debt" by gutting your retirement

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We're grateful for author Gaius bringing mention of this to the fore. However, the major component is absent - the adhesive, the Super-Glu binding these frauds together under a cloak of "public service" is Peter G. Peterson, one of the grand masters of the Conspiracy:  Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations. We do not could him among America's greatest allies or patriots. Certainly no friend of individual liberty!

 

The Campaign to Fix the Debt is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire Pete Peterson to slash earned benefit programs such as Social Security and Medicare under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." Through this special report -- and in partnership with The Nation magazine -- the Center for Media and Democracy exposes the funding, the leaders, the partner groups, and phony state "chapters" of this $60 million "astroturf supergroup," whose goal is to achieve a grand bargain on austerity by July 4, 2013.^[1]

We urge you to see the beneficial interlocks that "Fix the Debt" has set up for their corporatist allies colluding with government at your expense. GO HERE

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127 corporations that want to “Fix the Debt” by gutting your retirement

2/23/2013 10:00am by Gaius Publius  The CEOs of the following corporations don’t think they have enough money — perhaps because they don’t have it all. So they got together a little group called “Fix the Debt” to cobble up some more. The source of their added wealth? Your government retirement and medical insurance programs. You know, Social Security and Medicare. ‘Cause all your money aren’t yet belong to them; you still have some left.

I wrote about Fix the Debt earlier, the truly bipartisan group that wants Obama to do what he also wants to do, reduce the safety net. The following is a list of corporations who are driven by their millionaire and billionaire CEOs to help him get ‘er done.

The source is the amazing group SourceWatch. Also amazing — the list itself. Take a gander:

A ACE Limited Advance America AES Aetna Air Products and Chemicals Alcoa Alliance for Business Leadership Allstate American International Group AmericanTowns.com Apollo Global Management Ashford Hospitality Trust Associated Partners AT&T Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, Inc. B Bain Capital Bank of America Corp. Bank of New York Belk BlackRock Boeing Boston Capital Bridgestone Broadridge Financial Solutions C CA Technologies Caesars Entertainment Corporation Calix CapWealth Advisors LLC Carlyle Group Case New Holland Caterpillar CCMP Capital Cisco Inc. Citigroup Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Continental Grain Company Cooper Industries Corning Corporation Corporate Executive Board Co. Court Square Covington & Burling Cravath Swaine & Moore CSX

C cont. CVS Caremark D Daintree Delaware Street Capital Company Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Delta Air Lines Deutsche Bank DIRECTV Discovery Communications Donnelley Dow Chemical Company Duke Energy E Eagle Capital Managment Earthlink Eaton Corporation EBay Eloqua, Inc. Entravision Communications Corporation F Fedbid Foot Locker, Inc. G General Electric Glover Park Group H Honeywell Humana I IAC/InterActiveCorp Interaction Associates Invesco, Ltd. Investment Technology Group J JetBlue John Deere JPMorgan Chase K Kelly Services Knight Capital Group L LinkedIn Loews Corp. M M&T Bank Macy’s Marriott Marsh & McLennan Companies McKinsey & Company Medco Merck Microsoft Morgan Stanley

M cont. Motorola N NASDAQ OMX Group Norfolk Southern NYSE Euronext P Partnership for New York City PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ProLogis Providence Equity Partners LLC Q QUALCOMM R Ramsey Asset Management Reputation.com S Simpson-Bowles Commission SIRIUS Satellite Radio Stanley Black & Decker Staples Starwood Hotels State Farm SunGard Data Systems Inc. T T Rowe Price Tenneco Terex Corporation Textron The Duchossois Group, Inc. Thermo Fisher Scientific Three Oceans Partners Tishman Speyer TiVo U United Parcel Service UnitedHealth Group V VeriFone Verizon Communications Vornado Realty Trust W Weber Shandwick Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe Weyerhaeuser Wheels, Inc. Willis Group Holdings WL Ross & Co., LLC World Fuel Services Wunderman Y Yahoo Inc.

See anyone you recognize, or patronize? Their CEO told me to tell you Thanks.
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