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Will N.C. Democrats change course?
The Associated Press has an article out on how “N.C. Democrats accentuate the positive” after their disappointing performance at the polls last year. An interesting quote: Ken Lewis, a 2010…
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Barron’s D.C. man analyzes the president’s choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission
How will former federal prosecutor Mary Jo White perform as the new head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission? Barron’s “D.C. Current” columnist Jim McTague offers some perspective. Expectations…
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BAC to Lose Chunk of Equity Biz
So. It begins. The first tiny step in pulling apart what Hugh McColl and Ken Lewis built up. Bloomberg reports that Bank of America will spin off and out its…
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Ken Lewis Wanted Subsidy to Buy Lehman Bros.
Not that much the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission is telling us is all that shocking — more fleshing out of solid suppositions — but this is still pretty amusing. Dick…
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BofA Throws Money Around Boston
Paging Lauren Batten and all the Uptown corporate shakedown crowd. Is this a sign that Ken Lewis is no longer in charge or what? Bank of America is now $15m.…
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Countrywide: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
But you know what? Bank of America got off easy with a $108m. FTC fine for all the dirty dealings of its Countrywide purchase. In fact, this was nothing more…
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The Krawcheck Insurrection at BAC
Bloomberg got a straight-up denial of a CNBC item claiming that Bank of America global wealth chief Sallie Krawcheck was on think ice as old-line BofA bankers moved to reign…
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Latest dispatches from the campaign trail
In a huge endorsement, Ken Lewis backs Elaine Marshall over Cal Cunningham in Dems’ U.S. Senate primary. Breazeale, Crow not backing down in 7th Congressional District GOP spat. Public Policy…
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Ken Lewis Endorses Elaine Marshall
From Elaine Marshall campaign manager Thomas Mills comes an e-mail announcement. Here it is in part: On the steps of the state capitol, former U. S. Senate candidate Ken Lewis…
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Re: BofA and big government
And that’s why Moynihan was chosen to replace Ken Lewis. Lewis ran a bank. Moynihan runs a government agency.
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Durham Dems go for Lewis
Elaine Marshall may be winning in the statewide vote in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary, but Ken Lewis leads handily in the Durham vote. US SENATE – DEM Ken Lewis…
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Burr: No problem; Marshall leads Cunningham, Lewis
As of 8:17, with 14 percent of precincts reporting, Richard Burr has 81 percent of the vote. Perhaps surprisingly, Elaine Marshall has jumped out to a double-digit lead over Cal…