Bernstein

Source: articles.moneycentral.msn.com --- 36 days ago
NEW YORK (AP) - An analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. downgraded Time Warner Inc. Wednesday, saying the stock would be fairly valued after the media company splits off Time Warner Cable. ...

Source: www.cnn.com --- 37 days ago
Democrats take note: the Republican convention was resolutely on-message Tuesday night, sounding old themes and buzzwords that have worked for the GOP in the past. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 40 days ago
Leo M. Bernstein, 93, a Washington banker and investor whose passion for Americana prompted him to purchase Middletown's Wayside Inn in the 1960s and to restore a number of historic properties in the Shenandoah Valley, died Aug. 29 of congestive heart failure at his home in the District. ...

Source: www.scout.com --- 24 days ago
After further review of the Jags game, I would like to amend some earlier thoughts concerning the Jaguars loss to Buffalo. ...

Source: www.bloomberg.com --- 2 days ago
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Source: www.scout.com --- 26 days ago
The Bernstein Blog is a new feature of JagNation.com in which I, Charlie Bernstein give my unrefined yet accurate thoughts about the game. There may be some “colorful” language in this blog, being that it is pay-per-view. So if you don’t like it, I invite you not to read. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 33 days ago
Last week in this space I applauded the fact that a few important shards of reality broke through the predictable pageantry of the Democratic National Convention. This week, it is hard not to boo the truly fantastical specter of the RNC, where reality was banished from the hall. Like others, I will critique the non-reality of it all (see Bob Herbert , e.g.), but I also think there is a critical, forward looking lesson from the past two weeks about how the fight is evolving, and what Democrats need to do to win this election and get America back on track. It's their disdain versus our hope. The whole frame of the RNC--running against the Washington establishment--was ludicrous, of course, with the ticket headed by a 26-year senator whose agenda is almost perfectly in sync with that of the past eight years. I tried to listen to all the big speeches, but to hear Romney argue that it's the liberals who have screwed everything up, or Palin, charismatic as she may be, gleefully mock Obama, or the chant of "drill, baby, drill" from the crowd, or McCain wax substance-free, ad nauseam, proved to be too much for me. One of the best responses came from Obama himself . "You wouldn't know that this is such a critical election by watching the convention last night. I know we had our week and so, you know, the Republicans deserve theirs. But it's been amazing to me to watch. Over the last two nights, if you sit there and you watch it, you're hea ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
When John McCain announced his "new" plan to address the financial crisis by having the government directly buy up troubled mortgages, our first response was "wait a minute...that's already in the bailout bill." And, in fact, the bill does give the Treasury the authority to buy up precisely this type of debt." The TARP authorizes the Secretary of Treasury through Section 3 (9b) to buy "any other financial instrument" that the Secretary of Treasury "determines promotes financial market stability," including "residential or commercial mortgages." The legislation also directs the Treasury to use its new authority to help keep struggling families in their homes. Indeed, word is that Treasury is already exploring how to implement such authority. As outside economic advisors to the Obama-Biden campaign, we were also aware that his type of effort to restructure mortgages to help keep families in their homes had been something Senator Obama had been calling for since March. Thus our initial conclusion was that this proposal was a rather non-consequential ploy by McCain to provide cover for the fact that he has tended to be either late, on the wrong side, or frenetic and all over the map on policy responses to our current financial crisis. But today we learned of a detail that makes his plan significantly different -- and much worse. The McCain plan uses taxpayer dollars to buy distressed mortgages at their full, face value from the banks ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 7 days ago
Who won the Palin-Biden debate? Barack Obama, I suspect. Who was the big loser? In an historic fortnight that had already underscored his erratic nature, John McCain. The fact that Palin was able to string her sentences together last night - which she couldn't manage to do in her unscripted interviews with Katie Couric -- shows only how low McCain has strapped his presidential quest. Sarah Palin's task was an impossible one: to demonstrate that she is ready to be president of the United States. McCain put her in that impossible position; and her performance -- all prep and no depth -- demonstrated the bind he has put himself in. Yes, he "energized the base" with his Hail Mary pick of Palin as a running mate. But he also demonstrated cynical disregard for the requirement of stable governance were he to be elected president, and then -- through his incapacitation or death -- Palin be called upon to exercise the powers of the presidency. Just how scary a notion that is went on full display last night: She appeared to lack any semblance of the requisite depth, knowledge, or sense of history we should expect in a president or vice president; then she sought to excuse it by saying, "I've only been at this for five weeks." Yes, she could wink, she could tell Biden, "Say it ain't so, Joe, there you go again," and she could remind us again and again that she is a hockey Mom from the land of Joe-Six-pack (as if Western Republicans don't sw ...

Source: ca.prweb.com --- 23 hours ago
On September 26, 2008, Judge Joel A. Pisano gave final approval to a U.S. settlement with a minimum cash value of $130 million in In re Royal Dutch/Shell Transport Securities Litigation (D.N.J.) (the "Action"). This settlement is in addition to a $350 million European settlement on behalf of a class of non-U.S. purchasers of Shell securities on non-U.S. exchanges (the "Non-U.S. Purchasers"), which the court-appointed lead plaintiffs and Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP were, in the words of Judge Pisano, a "substantial factor" in bringing about. (PRWeb Oct 10, 2008) Read the full story at http://ca.prweb.com/releases/BernsteinLiebhard/RoyalDutchShellSettlement/prweb1441394.htm ...

Source: www.prweb.com --- 6 days ago
New York Super Lawyers magazine has named three partners at Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP ("Bernstein Liebhard") as being among the top lawyers in New York State for 2008: Stanley D. Bernstein, Jeffrey M. Haber, and Rebecca Katz. Mr. Bernstein was also named a Super Lawyer in 2007. (PRWeb Oct 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/BernsteinLiebhard/SuperLawyers/prweb1424314.htm ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 5 days ago
About a year ago, I had a memorable chat with a high-ranking Republican operative. The presidential primaries were revving up, and he asked me which Republican candidate I feared the most. Without hesitating, I answered McCain. My rationale was simple. While he was increasingly out-of-step with the public on the war, so were all the other Republican candidates. But unlike them, McCain had repeatedly stood up to his party on matters economic, especially the Bush tax cuts, and he did so with resonant language. In 2001, when the richest one percent of households held 18% of all income, he said he could not "in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us, at the expense of middle-class Americans." In 2003, when we had gone through a recession, were waging an expensive war, and the federal budget had flipped from surplus to deficit, he voted against another round of tax cuts for the wealthiest, this time arguing that "At a time of war, at a time of economic stagnation, at a time of rising national debt...one might expect our national leaders to pursue policies calling for shared sacrifice to achieve shared benefits. Regrettably, that is not the case." The most recent data show that in 2006, 23% of all income is held by the richest 1%, the highest level on record but for one year: 1928. Spending on the war has not abated, and the budget deficit is on the rise. Middle-class Americans, ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 30 days ago
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Source: epguides.com --- 30 days ago
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Source: en.wasalive.com --- 7 days ago
Watching John McCain attack our veterans has become the norm these past few years, with his status as a symbol for the American veteran merely a weird plot twist in his history; an unexplained asterisk standing next to his five-and-a-half hours on the Senate floor leading the fight against the dwell... ...

Source: voices.allthingsd.com --- 23 hours ago
The Street continues to ratchet down its expectations for Google (GOOG) ahead of the company's third quarter earnings coming up next Thursday. While continuing to recommend the stock, analysts at both RBC Capital and Bernstein Research today trimmed both their earnings estimates and price targets for the Internet search giant. That follows similar moves by analysts at Stifel, Morgan Stanley, AmTech and Collins Stewart. ...

Source: www.playbill.com --- 22 hours ago
""Carnegie Hall Opening Night 2008: A Celebration of Leonard Bernstein," which was filmed live at Carnegie Hall Sept. 24, will air on WNET/Thirteen Oct. 29 at 9 PM ET as part of the "Great Performances" series. ...

Source: www.press.uillinois.edu --- 30 days ago
Jane Bernstein, author of Rachel in the World: A Memoir, posted Sarah Palin: No Friend to Children and Adults with Disabilities on the Beacon Broadside blog. “Sarah Palin loves Trig. She is celebrated for making the choice to have this baby, seen as courageous and noble. Already I have read of another young woman, encouraged by Palin’s example, [...] ...