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Marshall Auerback is a Denver, Colorado-based global portfolio strategist for RAB Capital plc and a Fellow with the Economists for Peace and Security (http://www.epsusa.org/). He is a frequent contributor to the blog, Credit Writedowns, and the Japan Policy Research Institute (www.jpri.org) and a ne...

Hell Yes! Damn Right!...

Four weeks ago, we had a poll here at SB Auburn blog Track Em Tigers trying to determine who our 3rd biggest rival behind Alabama and Georgia was. I had seen a similar poll over at Dawgsports the week before, and it got me wondering who might be each SEC team's top conference rival, what overlap exi...

A blog says Sir Allen's 8bn alleged fraud was clear but not to the US regulator...

Noble Doss, R.I.P. The Longhorn legend died this weekend at the age of 88. Is the SEC the default national league? Brother Clay says yes, and get used to it. (So what does that make Raycom, exactly?) We lost all interest in this Mike Leach contract negotiations storyline right around the time the Dr...

The SEC swooped down on R. Allen Stanford yesterday: The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday charged R. Allen Stanford, a prominent Texas businessman, and three companies under his control with carrying out a “massive, ongoing fraud” involving the sale of $8 billion in certifica...

As the economy’s meltdown confuses politicians and economists, and stresses businesses and wage earners, the FBI has suddenly discovered a new path to career advancement. It has announced open season on the financial community with 530 corporate fraud investigations.

 The FBI also claimed tha...

[hit play, then read on for maximum effect] If you’re of orange-and-white extraction and a relative young’un like me, you’ve enjoyed respectable if not notable football success for most of your cognizant life. You are also threatened by change, and you may not know what to make of ...

We’ve had a great response to our 2009 Search Engine College t-shirt design competition. You are all witty and clever people! We had a hard time narrowing the entries down to 5, so we ended up choosing 8 worthy nominees for our readers to choose from. Here are the finalists in random order: Te...