merrill lynch

Obama’s Secret Weapon

Sep 16, 2008
While it’s fashionable for the media and some of his own supporters to be mourning the demise of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, they may well be overlooking an important point—that the vaunted McCain-Palin ticket has peaked. What else but such blind optimism could be motivating the unflagging energy of thousands of Obama grass-roots workers?
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The Rise and Fall of Stan O’Neal

Oct 30, 2007
It's not surprising in the cutthroat world of Wall Street to see a big-time CEO such as Stanley O'Neal float out of the boardroom with a golden parachute. What is significant is that this grandson of a slave managed to become one of the "Masters of the Universe" in the first place.