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Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America By Julia Angwin 268 pages; Random House...
...much to say that boards and executives who turn their backs on protecting the interests of their depositors, shareholders, customers, and employees will be keelhauled. This applies as much to hedge funds which have customers and shareholders of their own as it does to the Bank of America (BAC) which is, under the banking laws already in place, is regulated to within an inch of its life...
Ironically, what helped start the rally in mid March were upbeat words from Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit about Citigroup's profitable performance during the first two months of 2009. Friday's stock market swoon, traders say, was partly triggered by cautious comments from Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis and JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who both noted that March was proving to be a more difficult month than either January or February. As Dimon told Bloomberg TV while standing outside the White House after a group of bankers met with President Obama, "This downturn - it's pretty powerful...
...National Health Service (NHS) should pay for. A new drug doesn't just have to work to impress NICE, it has to offer value for money - and if it doesn't, whether it is life-saving or not, Rawlins' group won't approve it. With skyrocketing prescription prices bloating America's health-care system, many experts are now taking a hard look at whether America should embrace NICE's controversial methods. Rawlins talked to TIME about how NICE calculates a drug's worth, what its system might mean for the U.S. market and why drug companies are running scared...
...with its massive health-care market, did the same, could it have a transformative effect on drug costs? I think it could. The companies won't like it in America. But yes, it could...