An exclusive from Steven Thomas, attorney for the New Century Liquidating Trustee: “The New Century Liquidating Trustee and KPMG LLP have entered into a confidential settlement agreement, pursuant to which the lawsuits and arbitration against KPMG LLP and KPMG International have been resolved.” More details as they emerge.

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Joseph Cassano, the former head of AIG’s Financial Products Group, testifies this week for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, a bipartisan commission with a critical non-partisan mission — to examine the causes of the financial crisis. PricewaterhouseCoopers has been playing consigliere to AIG for many, many years and continues to be allowed to act as their “independent” auditor in spite of the fact that they have been sued by AIG’s shareholders and are now turning their own partners against their client in court. If PwC was informed about Cassano’s activities, then perhaps the SEC, the PCAOB and Department of Justice should finally turn their attention towards the audit firm.

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@Going Concern “What A Tangled Web We Weave: AIG’s Cassano Says He Told PwC Everything”

My new essay is up at Sundayed.com, the side project I’m contributing to with a few friends including Jason Moriber from Wise Elephant who helps me run this site. This weekend I’m talking about the “Summer Fiction: 20 Under 40″ issue of The New Yorker.

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Audit committees must proactively probe management and the auditors to gain insight and to make necessary oversight decisions. This is an article that appeared in Internal Auditor’s June 2010 issue.

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Asking The Difficult Questions: An Article About Audit Committees For The IIA’s Internal Auditor

You might as well be trying to save walruses from an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Big 4 audit firms’ response plans in the event of catastrophic litigation, if they exist, are likely cookie-cutter boilerplate, out of date, irrelevant and prepared by the same go-to defense lawyers that shill for them and repeatedly negotiate their settlements.

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@Going Concern ” ‘Independent’ Directors for the Audit Firms: Much Ado About Nothing”

If any doubts remained that PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, the international global network “coordinating” firm, does the bidding of its largest and most powerful member firms – primarily PwC US and PwC UK – the latest “restructuring” in India should dispel them. PwC US and PwC UK want to be closer to their money.

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PwC “Restructures” Indian Consulting Business: Will It Be Enough To Preserve US and UK Interests?

The government has made it a felony to get within 65 feet of clean-up operations. Reporters and photographers – including CNN’s Anderson Cooper – say that this will make it impossible to take pictures of oiled wildlife, or to accurately convey the effects of the oil spill.

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Search this site for the latest take on · Subscribe to UK Financial News, Advice and Links :: Perspicacious.co.uk News Feed · Subscribe to UK Financial News, Advice and Links :: Perspicacious.co.uk … In a further setback for the government, S&P stated that the economy would grow more slowly than the independent Office of Budget Responsibility has projected.

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Due to popular rage at the ban on reporters and photographers from within 65 feet of the oil spill, Coast Guard admiral Thad Allen has rescinded the ban. Specifically, Allen announced tonight that the media will have full access, as long as they do not interfere with safety or security: National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen today announced new procedures to allow media free travel within the 20-meter boom safety zones if they have followed simple procedures for credentialing, and provided they follow certain rules and guidelines.

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Breaking News: Due to Public Outcry, Coast Guard Rescinds Ban of Reporters and Photographers from Oil Spill

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China’s stocks fell, with the benchmark index declining the most in two weeks, after the government quashed speculation it will abandon real-estate curbs that drove property prices lower for the first time in 16 months.

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China Stocks Fall Most in Two Weeks as Loan Curbs Maintained

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Japanese bond yields may slide to a record as political pressure mounts on the central bank to take additional steps to counter a second economic recession, according to Kokusai Asset Management Co.

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Kokusai, Asia’s Biggest Bond Fund, Says Japan Yields May Plunge

Another update on condos as shadow inventory … From Kelly Bennett at the Voice of San Diego: Vantage Pointe’s Trouble Persists, but Downtown Thinks It’s Found Bottom Weighing in at 679 units, downtown’s biggest condo building, Vantage Pointe, has met with outsize trouble since 2004 when buyers first got in fistfights for the privilege of securing a unit. The building’s trouble continues.

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Condo Shadow Inventory

A recent exchange of declarations between the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the opposition-aligned Venezuelan Episcopal Conference (CEV) generated a heated public debate over the separation of church and state in the predominantly catholic nation. read more

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Venezuelan Government and Church Clash over Cardinal’s Political Statements

Contrary to widespread reports that the oil gusher has been stopped, the live feed below from ROV 2′s BSkandi camera shows that it is still gushing out of the pipe which has been connected to the new containment cap: BSkandi – ROV 2 (456854) bkup=45684 It is still encouraging that the cap seems to have a better fit as far as what I can see on the underwater cams.

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No, the Oil Gusher has NOT Been Stopped Yet … But There Still May Be Some Good News

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QualitySilverBullion.com What do people really know about silver bullion ? At a recent business expo we took the opportunity to ask people some questions about silver. Each person agreed to let us use their response in a video

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Global Economy, the Indian Economy sailed through difficult times and responded swiftly. The effectiveness of the policy measures became evident as the year ended on a positive note with a GDP growth of around 7.2% in 2009-10. …

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The Indian economy is expected to rebound only from the last quarter of the current financial year. “Although the industry has begun picking up momentum, the demand for Indian merchandise products in the key western markets such as the …

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