peHUB Second Opinion 6.17
Huntsman/Hexion Continues: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Target Scorned, via Thomson Reuters' Westlaw Business. Really? NYU Grads are living in tents now. "We have parents that could give us money to get an apartment," the NYU grad told The Post, "but it's nice to be independent." (NY Post) Workarounds: Almost two years into the worst financial calamity since the 1930s, companies are doing everything they can to reduce their indebtedness, selling record amounts of equity to pay back bonds and loans. (Bloomberg) Second Acts: The lead executive who loaded Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. with toxic property investments, is part of a group chosen by Lehman to take over the bankrupt firm's real-estate private-equity arm. (WSJ) Signs of Recovery? Fewer hedge funds shuttered themselves in Q1 than in Q408. (Crain's) Joss Whedon is a hack: Ten Ways to Provoke a Geek Argument. (Wired) And Ten More. (Wired)
