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2:00PM Water Cooler 5/21/2021 | naked capitalism


Readers, I got a late start
again. I will add more shortly. –lambert
Bird Song of the Day
The Changeable Hawk-Eagle. (I confess I’ve been choosing these eagles because of their names, but their songs have been really various.)

#COVID19
At reader request, I’ve added this daily chart from 91-DIVOC. The data is the Johns Hopkins CSSE data. Here is the site.
I feel I’m engaging in a macabre form of tape-watching. All the charts are becoming dull approaching nominal, if you accept the “new normal” of cases, for example.
Still upward movement.
“Pentagon push has more US servicemembers getting vaccinated” [FOX News]. “Now 71% of troops surveyed say they have gotten the vaccine or plan to do so. Only 39% of active-duty spouses say they plan to get vaccinated – which could be a problem as hundreds of thousands of troops and their families plan to move to new bases this summer. If the 600,000 troops and their families don’ ....

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Davy Group: 'A culture of greed': who's who on the Davy gravy train?


Property developer Paddy Kearney, who sued Davy
Kearney was told just after doing the deal that he could have got a much higher price of 32c in the euro, but by then it was too late. He later sued and the firm settled the case.
Davy was last week fined €4m by the Central Bank over the episode. It was the largest financial penalty ever imposed on an Irish broker.
The Central Bank has not named the 16 people involved in the bond deal, but key players at the firm include some of the leading figures in the financial world in Dublin. Among the luminaries who quit in the days after the fine was imposed was the deputy chairman Kyran McLaughlin, a 75-year-old veteran dealmaker who in the past was described as the “most powerful man in Irish stockbroking”. ....

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