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Proxy Voting 101

…the distribution agent, who figures everything out and distributes them to shareholders. Companies can contact their known shareholders by getting their names from the transfer agent they’ve hired to maintain…

The Logan Act…if you are curious

…his agent, to any foreign government or the agents thereof for redress of any injury which he may have sustained from such government or any of its agents or subjects….

Why Tranche

…very very hard to make sense of this argument using standard simple finance models. First the simplest. Assume that assets and agents last 1 period and that agents have constant…

Update on Presidential Performance Book

…together with a co-author who currently wants to remain nameless, I completed a first draft of the book and went looking for an agent. We found one who has a…

Immunity for everyone

…judge’s approval. Last year’s audit by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine, issued March 9, 2007, blamed agent error and shoddy record-keeping for the bulk of the problems and…

Incompetence at Best

Mideast expert Juan Cole reports that … [Muhammad Naeem Noor] Khan had been secretly apprehended by Pakistani military intelligence in mid-July, and had been turned into a double agent. He…