I didn't want to go off track again in Esco's thread so I figured I'd start my own.
Al Rosen the legend was in the news again today.
"Forensic accountant Al Rosen said it looks to him that Bay Street knew the details of Goodale's announcement well before he made it.
"Clearly, there was a leak between 2 [p.m. ET] and 4 [p.m. ET]," he told CBC News. "
http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/11/25/trusttrading-051125.html
He's also in today's Toronto Star:
"We took a hard look at the figures for the 50 largest business trusts," says Rosen, who has been warning about potential problems with income trusts for the past three years. "Once you compare them to the market, the gross inflation or balloon mechanism of these trusts becomes obvious."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1132786212923
Yeah, he could be an a**hole. He's gruff, uses profanity and doesn't suffer fools gladly. But who would you rather have as your friend? A Burgess Meredith type character in Rocky who'll kick your ass and tell you the truth or a slick talkin' "yeah that's the ticket" bullsh*tter like the Jon Lovitz character on SNL?
I'll take Al any day.
Is he a legend? Damn right he is.
Students at Schulich still talk about him. And he retired from teaching eight years ago!
That means stories about him have been passed down by two generations of students who've never even been taught by him.
Yes, the "here's a quarter, go call your mother" story has been passed down but so has his legacy for being an excellent teacher and for helping build Schulich's reputation as an excellent business school.
The business world needs more guys like Al Rosen.
On another note, for those of you who don't think there's racism in Quebec -- take your head out of the sand, put your glasses on and read on:
"It's true we have been defeated, but basically by what? By money and the ethnic vote."
Jacques Parizeau
Oct. 30, 1995
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/parizeau.html
Bernard Landry chews out ethnic hotel clerk for referendum loss:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/landry4.html
"Do you think it makes any sense that we have so few children in Quebec? We're one of the white races that has the fewest children. It doesn't make sense!"
Lucien Bouchard
Oct. 1995 referendum campaign
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/white.html
The Michaud Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaud_Affair
"Racial hatred occasionally broke through the surface of the crisis as traffic frustration at the blockades grew into anger. The flames were fanned by radio host Gilles Proulx who repeatedly reminded his listeners that the Mohawks "couldn't even speak French" and the federal Member of Parliament for Chateauguay said that all the natives in Quebec should be shipped off to Labrador "if they wanted their own country so much"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_crisis
Al Rosen the legend was in the news again today.
"Forensic accountant Al Rosen said it looks to him that Bay Street knew the details of Goodale's announcement well before he made it.
"Clearly, there was a leak between 2 [p.m. ET] and 4 [p.m. ET]," he told CBC News. "
http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/11/25/trusttrading-051125.html
He's also in today's Toronto Star:
"We took a hard look at the figures for the 50 largest business trusts," says Rosen, who has been warning about potential problems with income trusts for the past three years. "Once you compare them to the market, the gross inflation or balloon mechanism of these trusts becomes obvious."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...geid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1132786212923
Yeah, he could be an a**hole. He's gruff, uses profanity and doesn't suffer fools gladly. But who would you rather have as your friend? A Burgess Meredith type character in Rocky who'll kick your ass and tell you the truth or a slick talkin' "yeah that's the ticket" bullsh*tter like the Jon Lovitz character on SNL?
I'll take Al any day.
Is he a legend? Damn right he is.
Students at Schulich still talk about him. And he retired from teaching eight years ago!
That means stories about him have been passed down by two generations of students who've never even been taught by him.
Yes, the "here's a quarter, go call your mother" story has been passed down but so has his legacy for being an excellent teacher and for helping build Schulich's reputation as an excellent business school.
The business world needs more guys like Al Rosen.
On another note, for those of you who don't think there's racism in Quebec -- take your head out of the sand, put your glasses on and read on:
"It's true we have been defeated, but basically by what? By money and the ethnic vote."
Jacques Parizeau
Oct. 30, 1995
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/parizeau.html
Bernard Landry chews out ethnic hotel clerk for referendum loss:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/landry4.html
"Do you think it makes any sense that we have so few children in Quebec? We're one of the white races that has the fewest children. It doesn't make sense!"
Lucien Bouchard
Oct. 1995 referendum campaign
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/lobby/4652/white.html
The Michaud Affair
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michaud_Affair
"Racial hatred occasionally broke through the surface of the crisis as traffic frustration at the blockades grew into anger. The flames were fanned by radio host Gilles Proulx who repeatedly reminded his listeners that the Mohawks "couldn't even speak French" and the federal Member of Parliament for Chateauguay said that all the natives in Quebec should be shipped off to Labrador "if they wanted their own country so much"."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_crisis