Tuesday Links
Class Sizes Rise, Mostly Due to Budget Cuts [NY Times] Council Votes to Phase Out Roll-Down Security Gates [NY Times] Investigator of Corruption in Crane Operators’ Union Appointed [NY Times] Contractor Draws a 3-Month Term for Bribery [NY Times] Treasury Pushes Mortgage Firms for Loan Relief [NY Times] Critics say Brooklyn Bridge Park Entrance Looks…
Class Sizes Rise, Mostly Due to Budget Cuts [NY Times]
Council Votes to Phase Out Roll-Down Security Gates [NY Times]
Investigator of Corruption in Crane Operators’ Union Appointed [NY Times]
Contractor Draws a 3-Month Term for Bribery [NY Times]
Treasury Pushes Mortgage Firms for Loan Relief [NY Times]
Critics say Brooklyn Bridge Park Entrance Looks Dull [NY Post]
87-year-old Woman Run Over in Marine Park [NY Post]
Boymelgreen’s Bank at Risk of Seizure [The Real Deal]
African American Poetry Center Leases Dumbo Space [Brooklyn Eagle]
Council Approves Final Demolition Safety Bill [NY1]
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Biff, how far did you have to walkt to school and back every day in the Cnadian north woods???? Eh???
The Post article does not state inventory numbers. Unless you have definitive proof to challenge 11217’s numbers then, as we say in the OT, STFU!!!!!
Etson, I agree! I recall over 30 kids in my elementary school classes every year. And look how smart I am now! Ok, bad example…
stevie…too much turkey over the holiday???
Your tirade to instigate trouble with Kens failed miserably yesterday and now this!!!
The link to that highly regarded bastion of factual reporting, the NY Post, doesn’t work.
And, there is nothing factual in the goldman article that they are losing market share, just wishful thinking and self-serving quotes from competitors.
If it were true we’d have seen it in the performance of the respectful stock prices.
Let’s keep out battles to these insead of Mongolian goat recipes!!!!!
From Alice Schroeder at Bloomberg news: “I just wrote my first reference for a gun permit,†said a friend, who told me of swearing to the good character of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker who applied to the local police for a permit to buy a pistol. The banker had told this friend of mine that senior Goldman people have loaded up on firearms and are now equipped to defend themselves if there is a populist uprising against the bank. I called Goldman Sachs spokesman Lucas van Praag to ask whether it’s true that Goldman partners feel they need handguns to protect themselves from the angry proletariat. He didn’t call me back. The New York Police Department has told me that “as a preliminary matter†it believes some of the bankers I inquired about do have pistol permits. The NYPD also said it will be a while before it can name names….. Has it really come to this? Imagine what emotions must be billowing through the halls of Goldman Sachs to provoke the firm into an apology. Talk that Goldman bankers might have armed themselves in self-defense would sound ludicrous, were it not so apt a metaphor for the way that the most successful people on Wall Street have become a target for public rage.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0
The popular uprising against the washington wall street partnership that I have been espousing is starting.
Palin-Bachman 2012!!
Despite a hugely profitable year, Goldman Sachs has lost its Midas touch as the premier investment bank. Charlie Gasparino on how the competition caught up and what its future holds.
The PR spin out of Goldman Sachs these days—just as the firm is about to redistribute billions of taxpayer bailout money in the form of year-end bonuses—is that the firm is once again very solid. The traders are making money, and Goldman’s famed “client†or investment-banking business, which manages the investment needs of the world’s biggest companies, hasn’t been touched, the people at Goldman assure me. Big companies are still flocking to Goldman’s investment bankers to sell stock or for advice on mergers and acquisitions.
But don’t bet on it.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-29/is-goldman-slipping/
Double dip for Manhattan real estate prices – just when most thought prices had
hit bottom, there is fresh evidence that they could drop another 10-15%. NY Post.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/manhattan_double_dip_rFLSp7Rcxpd7R0F
Inventory in manhattan shrinking to 8k unit my ass, 11217
etson, I read the story after you posted and was surprised as well. I think if the numbers were 50/60 it’d be a different story but they are talking about a rise from 24.X to 26.X students per class…a low number.
I wonder how many people are paid to keep track of these statistics??????
Why is there always so much fuss over class sizes? I was taught in classes of 25-30 for most of my school career & no-one seemed to think of it as a problem. In fact I kin spel grate.
(Seriously, though, I think too much is made of this one simple statistic).