May 2nd, 2006 | by Derek | published in NonGov Data
Will Deener and Paul Foutch of the Dallas Morning News used data from the NASD, which regulates brokers, to show that “less than 1 percent of the 14,450 active brokers in D-FW have three or more investor complaints on their NASD record,” but that “brokers are not required to tell a potential customer how to [...]
March 26th, 2006 | by Derek | published in DIY, NonGov Data
Charles Forelle and James Bandler of the Wall Street Journal - in a rare CAR foray - analyzed stock option grants for CEOs to find that “several companies with wildly improbable option-grant patterns. While this doesn’t prove chicanery, it shows something very odd: Year after year, some companies’ top executives received options on unusually propitious [...]
March 23rd, 2006 | by Derek | published in DIY, NonGov Data
Shaila Dewan, Marjorie Connelly and Andrew Lehren of the New York Times report on the results of a survey of more than 300 Katrina evacuees, finding that “most evacuees say they have not found a permanent place to live, have depleted their savings and consider their life worse than before the hurricane.” The paper [...]
January 6th, 2006 | by Derek | published in DIY, NonGov Data
Amy Goldstein and Sarah Cohen of the Washington Post, with a team of reporters and researchers, categorized Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s rulings and compared them to other federal appeals court judges, finding that “Alito has taken a harder line on criminal and immigration cases than most federal appellate judges nationwide, including those who, like [...]
September 16th, 2005 | by Derek | published in NonGov Data
Mary Umberger, Geoff Dougherty, Sharon Stangenes, John Handley and Wayne Faulkner of the Chicago Tribune used local property data from the Chicago Association of Realtors to show that “property on the South Side and in the south suburbs is hot, with price appreciation in the year ended June 30 exceeding the 10-year average annual price [...]