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The angry Americans: The Occupy movement and the 'tea party' have some common targets

...banks "too big to fail" and too powerful to combat. A reinstitution of the separation between commercial and investment banking, along the lines of the old Glass-Steagall Act (repealed in 1999), would help contain this excessive power...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-08/angry-americans-occupy-movement-and-t
Opinion
Change the World Bank needs

...strong ties with the White House whose professional credentials had little to do with development - such as law, investment banking, finance, politics and even newspaper publication.This time, the customary process of selecting the president...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-18/change-world-bank-needs
Opinion
Outside editorial: The bad old days of risky derivative trading never left

...a small-business loan or a line of credit for daily business cash flow.But at the 1 percent level, where investment banking is done, banking is extraordinarily complicated and extraordinarily rewarding. The risks, as the nation discovered...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-05-17/outside-editorial-bad-old-days-risky-
Opinion
Broken lives in a broken economy

...a reality, direct and honest dialogue needs to take place among the leaders in government, business, union, investment, banking, education, health care, philanthropy, religious communities, as well as those who are unemployed and living...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-10-16/broken-lives-broken-economy
Opinion
Protesters halt operations at some western U.S. ports

...said.Protesters are most upset by two West Coast companies: port operator SSA Marine and grain exporter EGT. Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs Group Inc. owns a major stake in SSA Marine and has been a frequent target of protesters...

http://juneauempire.com/terry-collins/2011-12-13/protesters-halt-operations-some
AEL&P CEO steps down

...Barc said his son had an opportunity to join AEL&P, and even worked a summer there, but decided to stick with investment banking. Bill Corbus was the fourth in his family to be president of AEL&P, creating an unbroken family line for more...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082102/loc_aelpceo.shtml
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Despite bipartisan rhetoric, Congress brings back pork

...Sen. Kent Conrad of North Dakota, in a $10 million nod to his state's bison industry); some of the richest investment-banking firms in lower Manhattan receiving $4,800 per employee in tax credits, under rules originally intended to encourage...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/111501/opE_edboard.shtml
Opinion
ConocoPhillips' bid to buy company won't affect pipeline

...or hurt that pipeline," said Phil McPherson, director of research at the C.K. Cooper & Co., a California investment banking and brokerage that specializes in oil and gas. Demand for natural gas will be strong enough to spur the company's...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121405/sta_20051214013.shtml
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Wards Cove hires firm to sell nine seafood processing plants in Alaska

KETCHIKAN - Wards Cove Packing Co. has hired an investment-banking firm to sell the nine seafood processing plants it owns in Alaska, including two in Ketchikan. The company's announcement last...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/121802/sta_wardscove.shtml
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Juneau Empire Story Archive

...officer of the then United Farm Agency, Inc. In 1986 he was executive vice president of Stern Brothers & Co., an investment banking firm. Brown moved to Juneau in 1988 to become senior vice president and chief financial officer of Klukwan, Inc...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/072299/Com_obits.shtml

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