Oct 29 2010

Sharron Angle Sends Joy Behar Flowers — for Fundraising Boost

Joy Behar didn’t have nice things to say about Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle on “The View” Tuesday, and that’s apparently just fine with the Tea Party favorite. Behar told viewers Wednesday that she had received flowers from Angle, who included a note saying, “Joy, raised $150,000 online yesterday. Thanks for your help.” Behar, not [...]


Oct 16 2010

Whoopi and Joy Walk Off ‘The View’ During Spat With O’Reilly

Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set of “The View” Thursday during an appearance by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly. Things got heated when the topic turned to the New York City mosque and cultural center. Specifically, O’Reilly’s comment that “Muslims killed us on 9/11″ outraged the ladies. Goldberg and Behar argued that [...]


Oct 15 2010

Another View: Lessons From Pecora Were Ignored

The New York TimesFerdinand I. Pecora Michael Perino, a professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law, is the author of “The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance” (Penguin Press), which is out Thursday. For 16 months in the depths of the Great [...]


Oct 4 2010

Analyst’s Street-Level View of Citi

It is going to take more than a two-hour meeting with Citigroup executives to make a believer out of the financial analyst Michael Mayo, left. The outspoken Mr. Mayo, who Friday met with Citigroup management, including its chief executive, Vikram S. Pandit, released a report on the meeting on Monday. In the wake of the powwow, [...]


Sep 12 2010

Would You Burn the Koran? Or Just Hit the ‘Delete’ Key? History’s View

If Terry Jones won’t burn the Koran, would you? Admittedly, it’s hard to figure out what Jones, the mercurial leader of a small, cult-like Florida church, will do next. First he was committed to burning Korans on 9/11 to show Muslims what he thinks of them and their holy book. Then, after a global outcry [...]


Aug 24 2010

Another View: Gleaning the Bond Market’s Message

Daniel Alpert, managing partner of Westwood Capital, notes that while the bond market does not lie, its message can be confusing. Much has been made lately of a possible bubble in bonds. The rapid decline in Treasury yields could certainly be taken for evidence of overexuberance. The fact that we are seeing bonds rally up [...]