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As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Corporate tax reform is nice in theory but tough in practice. It most likely requires lower tax rates and the closing of loopholes, which many companies are sure to fight. And whatever new, lower tax rate is determined, there will probably be another country willing to lower its rate further, creating a sad race to zero.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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What if lawmakers never spoke to their constituents? Oddly enough, that's exactly how corporate America operates. Shareholders vote for directors, but the directors rarely, if ever, communicate with them.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

Topics: America Communicate Constituents Corporate Corporate America Directors Enough Ever Exactly How Lawmakers Never Oddly Rarely Shareholders Spoke Them Vote What If

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In the age of activism that is clearly not going away, it would seem that some form of engagement from directors with shareholders - rather than directors simply taking their cues from management - would go a long way toward helping boards work on behalf of all shareholders rather just the most vocal.

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Topics: Activism Age Away Behalf Boards Clearly Directors Engagement Form Go Going Going Away Helping Just Long Long Way Management Most Rather Seem Shareholders Simply Some Taking Than Toward Vocal Way Work Would

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Debt, we've learned, is the match that lights the fire of every crisis. Every crisis has its own set of villains - pick your favorite: bankers, regulators, central bankers, politicians, overzealous consumers, credit rating agencies - but all require one similar ingredient to create a true crisis: too much leverage.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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The euphoria around economic booms often obscures the possibility for a bust, which explains why leaders typically miss the warning signs.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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The ethos on Wall Street has not changed, and that's not going to come from the corner office. That's going to come, for better or worse, from Washington, and the whole idea of greed is still good, that is still pervasive.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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We talk about institutions that are too big to fail - I think the story is as much about people who think they are too big to fail.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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It's the people who have an incentive to find the problem who usually find the problem.

~Andrew Ross Sorkin

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: February 19th, 1977

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