I have grown pretty frustrated with FeedBurner, the RSS Feed Service now owned by Google.  Often, my posts have not  gone out immediately. There are significant ‘outages’ where the service is just plain broken.  And their Feed count reporting has become pretty screwy.  So, I have switched to FeedBlitz, a new competing service.  If you [...]

Attorney Angela Somers, Senior Counsel at Allen & Overy talks about Chrysler struggling to avoid bankruptcy.  She is an expert in bankruptcy and she is sounding a lot less upbeat about a quick and painless process than Obama.  She even mentions the word “liquidation.” 
Not to doom-monger here, but it is pretty scary stuff. On [...]

It looks like Chrysler is going down for the count. A few piggish bondholders decided to play chicken with the Federal Government. They are going to lose this game and, consequently, lots of money too. Chrysler and the Obama Administration did not have a strong hand. Their best alternative to a negotiated [...]

This comes from Bloomberg:
President Barack Obama plans to announce tomorrow that Chrysler LLC will be placed into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, leading to an alliance with Italian automaker Fiat SpA, people involved in the matter said.
Administration officials are still resolving outstanding issues, and the plan is not finished yet, said one of the people, who declined [...]

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From the FT:
The US reported the first death outside Mexico from the swine flu virus on Wednesday as governments around the world stepped up preparations for a possible pandemic.
As Germany became the eighth country to report cases of the infection, a US government official confirmed to Reuters that a 23-month-old child had died in Texas [...]

Below is a very good video of John Bogle, the legendary investor, at Columbia Business School, hosted by CBS Professor David Beim. In his speech, Bogle places much of the blame for the present crisis with the increasingly hostile corporate governance environment of the last quarter-century, a point I make in my recent post “The [...]

The German car maker Daimler wants to put the Chrysler chapter behind it, so it will give up its remaining 19.9% stake and forgive all remaining loans. See BBC story.
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Berkshire Hathaway’s Annual Meeting is this coming Saturday 2 May 2009 in Omaha, NE at the Qwest Center (details in pdf here).  Given the financial turmoil and all of the hubaloo around Berkshire’s credit rating, it should be a very interesting affair.
In conjunction with the Annual meeting, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett’s son Peter is hosting [...]

I showed you a video from CNBC in a previous post detailing how Swine Flu spreads in humans. Here is a second look at what Swine Flu is all about in three videos from the Wall Street Journal.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says “stay calm.”