Lots of excitement at Citigroup’s annual meeting today, as recounted in Crain’s New York Business. Shouting shareholders, wailing employees, an angry, overflowing crowd. New chief exec Vikram Pandit tried to calm everyone down: We’re now closer to the end of the write-down cycle than we are to the beginning, he said. With more than $40 [...]
Hello! And Hej! to you, Henri. It’s great to be back. So, last week Justin mentioned that Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper is looking to outsource some copy editing to the U.S. Foreigners? Hiring Americans? As my colleague Coco Masters recently reported, they’re after our pilots, too. In a slightly different sort of turn-about, I recently [...]
The Curious Capitalist family is about to head to Costa Rica for a week. In the meantime, veteran Curious Capitalist stand-in Barbara Kiviat and newbie Bill Saporito (a.k.a. my boss) will be filling in. Be nice to them. But not too nice.
