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How America SAVED Eduardo Saverin: Facebook co-founder who renounced citizenship to dodge taxes moved to U.S. because he was at risk of kidnapping

Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co-founder of Facebook who recently renounced his U.S. citizenship to slash his tax bill, moved to Miami at the age of 13 because he was at risk of kidnapping.

The 30-year-old was on a gangster’s list of potential kidnap targets which led his wealthy parents to flee Brazil in a potentially lifesaving move.

But now Saverin, who was friends with Mark Zuckerberg when they attended Harvard in 2004 and [...]

Facebook co-founder cashes in his chips on America, for $4 billion, renouncing US citizenship, making a quick exit, just in time for Facebook IPO, the biggest IPO in the biggest bubble on record:

Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.

Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in history for anInternet company. Saverin’s stake is about 4 percent, according to the website Who Owns Facebook. At the high end of [...]

FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDER GIVES UP U.S. CITIZENSHIP BEFORE IPO

From Bloomberg:

Eduardo Saverin, the billionaire co- founder of Facebook Inc. (FB), renounced his U.S. citizenship before an initial public offering that values the social network at as much as $96 billion, a move that may reduce his tax bill.

Facebook plans to raise as much as $11.8 billion through the IPO, the biggest in history for anInternet company. Saverin’s stake is about 4 percent, according to the website Who Owns Facebook. At the high end [...]

Obama said, “Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of congress, and I’ll sign it tomorrow.” Looks like it already exists… and has since 2006.

March 3, 2006 – STOCK Act Fact Check

STOCK Act Fact Check

Washington, DC - Rep. Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY-28), Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following explaination of the STOCK Act which she recently co-authored with Rep. Brian Baird (D-WA-3).

 

SUMMARY of S.T.O.C.K. (Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge) Act

 

Prohibits members or employees of Congress from buying or selling stocks, bonds, or commodities futures based on nonpublic information about pending or [...]

China CDS Soars On Continued Hard Landing Concerns

by ZH

Update: CDS now over 200 bps, or over 7 bps since this artice was posted.

This is an emergency announcement for bubble watchers: China CDS has soared to 194.5 bps, +14.5 in the past few hours (a trend first noted here about a week earlier), the biggest relative mover in the sovereign realm, which has just hit the widest it has been since March 2009. Ironically the incremental [...]

FLASHBACK: ‘I thought about going to Warren Buffett, and I decided it would be embarrassing I only had $100,000′

y Nedra Pickler, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Wednesday he was not aware he had invested in two companies backed by some of his top donors and said he had done nothing to aid their business with the government.

The Illinois senator faced questions about more than $50,000 in investments he made right after taking office in 2005 in two speculative [...]

Widest Wealth Gap Between Whites, Minorities On Record

Washington D.C.

The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century.

The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics, according to an analysis of new Census data.

The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the [...]

10 Things Wells Fargo Wants You to Ignore

This article originally appeared at Stone Street Advisors.

It has been well documented that Warren Buffett is Wells Fargo’s biggest fan – and largest shareholder (through Berkshire Hathaway). In fact, in his annual letter to shareholders he states that WFC is likely to increase its dividend the most among his common stock holdings. Given that WFC cut its dividend after taking TARP money, his prediction should not come as [...]

AP survey: 2010 Will Be Painful

AP survey: Painfully slow economic gains into 2011
AP survey: Economists see painfully slow gains into 2011 with unemployment stuck at 9 percent

But the other half counter that further lowering already super-low loan rates would provide little benefit. Some liken it to “pushing on a string.” And they say they fear that even lower rates could ignite runaway inflation later or a wave of speculative buying in [...]

HP's unlucky shareholders are NOW LEFT HOLDING THE BAG which is imploding.

HP’s shares will plunge at opening on Monday and are down over 10% this afternoon in after hours trading. Mark’s exploitation of HP and its employees was legendary and LOVE BY WS and now that has come to a screeching halt this afternoon.

But some shareholders were not quite so unlucky:

CATHIE’S REMARKABLE LUCK SELLING HP SHARES JULY 30TH

Cathie Lesjak, now HP Interim CEO, filed a SEC Form 4 on 08/03/2010 related [...]

I hope you caught the news from China:

They are saying there’s a possibility of the world, outside China, going into a double dip recession.

Combine this with the general news about optimism and stock valuations and you see the wealth transfer effect going on (bankers selling retail investors their stock holdings).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/14/2845352.htm

China’s premier Wen Jiabao says the world could still fall into a double-dip recession and is warning against complacency.

At his annual press conference, China’s number two leader has [...]