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Exclusive: Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on …

Exclusive: Green Party's Jill Stein Announces She Is Running for President on ...
In a Democracy Now! exclusive, Dr. Jill Stein officially launches her campaign as a Green Party candidate for the 2016 presidential race. "I have a people-powered campaign," Stein notes. "I am running with the only national party that does not take ...
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Asia's richest man "disappointed" by Hong Kong democracy veto, but business ...
Hong Kong's legislature on Thursday vetoed the electoral reform package criticized by opposition pro-democracy lawmakers and activists as undemocratic, easing the prospect of fresh protests in the financial hub after last year's massive "Occupy Central ...
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Report: Russia Is Biggest Antidemocracy Force
Russia saw its biggest loss of democracy in a decade last year, while it and other authoritarian states took aggressive action to block efforts to form new democracies elsewhere in Europe and Eurasia, a new report by Freedom House finds. Russian ...
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Cornerstone Research Promotes Stewart Mayhew to Vice President


Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 19, 2015

Cornerstone Research, a leading provider of economic and financial consulting and expert testimony, announced today the promotion of Stewart Mayhew to vice president in the firm’s Washington, DC, office.

“Stewart has a wealth of knowledge and experience on regulation and enforcement from his years at the SEC,” said Adel Turki, a senior vice president of Cornerstone Research and head of the firm’s finance practice. “Since joining Cornerstone Research, he has brought rigorous analysis to finance matters that involve compliance investigations, securities class actions, and trading rules for exchanges. This promotion recognizes his exceptional contributions to our clients and our firm.”

Dr. Mayhew has particular expertise in securities trading, and has worked on matters related to option markets, market manipulation, insider trading, short selling, clearance and settlement, dark pools, and high-frequency trading. He has consulted for stock exchanges, broker dealers, investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds, and individuals involved in regulatory investigations and private litigation. Dr. Mayhew has also conducted studies connected to the rule making process as a contractor for the SEC and FINRA.

Prior to joining Cornerstone Research in 2010, Dr. Mayhew served as deputy chief economist of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). His work at the SEC included regulatory matters related to stock, option, and bond markets, as well as a range of investment vehicles. In addition, he worked on numerous enforcement matters for the SEC.

Dr. Mayhew has held tenure-track faculty positions at Purdue University and the University of Georgia. He is a noted authority on option market structure and empirical option pricing, and has published articles in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Futures Markets.

Dr. Mayhew earned a Ph.D. in finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in applied economics and a B.S. in economics from Brigham Young University.

About Cornerstone Research

Cornerstone Research provides economic and financial consulting and expert testimony in all phases of complex litigation and regulatory proceedings. The firm works with an extensive network of prominent faculty and industry practitioners to identify the best-qualified expert for each assignment. Cornerstone Research has earned a reputation for consistent high quality and effectiveness by delivering rigorous, state-of-the-art analysis for over 25 years. The firm has more than 500 staff and offices in Boston, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Menlo Park, New York, San Francisco, and Washington.

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Eight More Years For President Barack Obama


New York, New York (PRWEB) September 09, 2012

There is a new kind of voter in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling on Citizen’s United.

Fri 9/7/12 The New American Brian Koenig quotes Tony Shalhoub speaking at the DNC in Charlotte NC regarding Citizen's United, "It's dollars over the actual voice of the people". Dahlia Lithwich Jan 21, 2010 "The Pinocchio Project" said of Justice John Paul Stevens as he read a partial dissent, "you can plainly see the weariness in Steven's eyes and hear it in his voice today as he is forced to contend with a legal fiction that has come to life today, a sort of Constitutional Frankenstein moment when corporate speech becomes even more compelling than the 'voices of the real people' who will be drowned out". Back Barack LLC's opinion is that "the Supreme Court’s decision to allow Corporations and their aggregate wealth to finance political campaigns is great for a plutocracy but an affront to democracy and a direct attack to the people’s voice in this election". They feel although they may not have the millions and billions of the Koch Brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Foster Freiss, or Wall Street to name a few, they do have a vote and a voice. Unabashed and unapologetic, their message, “8 More Years”.

This is the first official statement of Back Barack LLC as they launch a new website and original "Rock Your Barack Vote" gear. They further opine that "repairing the state of the economy the President inherited requires time. 'Witness President Franklin Delano Roosevelt who was elected to 4 terms during an economic depression and World War II'. 'The fragility of the current economy demands stability.' 'The path to economic recovery that was started with President Barack Obama in 2009 must continue."







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