Jul 31
Taiwan is to allow Chinese investors to participate in the island's stock and futures markets from October, the Wall Street Journal reported. It will also permit firms with Chinese shareholders to list on Taiwan's stock exchange. According to Wu Tang-chieh, vice chairman of Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Committee, investments will be made under China's Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) program, through which banks, fund managers and insurers invest in overseas securities on beha
Jul 31
Alaska Senator Ted Stevens (R-Bridge to Nowhere), who famously informed us all that the Internet is "not a truck" ("it's a series of tubes"), was so good at shaking down big mules with his Northern Lights PAC that he piled up more sleaze-bucks than he could spend on his own campaigns. So when you have excess money, what do you do? Why, invest it, of course! Invest in fellow legislators, to make sure they vote the "right way". And of course, once you're into them for a few large, they owe you