Ironically, an agency created to compel disclosure of material information to investors has morphed into the single most formidable opponent to disclosure of that information to investors.
Also on Friday, Transocean remained at odds with federal regulators seeking to compel its employees to testify next week at a hearing into the causes of the oil spill.
In his view, the only way to be accepted as legitimate in leftist circles is to compel Likud to move to the left by bringing Kadima into the government.
Normally this blog only focuses on the intersection of soccer and statistics, but every so often events in other sports compel a break from the purely analytical world of soccer and a diversion into commentary instead.
But it can't compel those southern European banks, many of which are chronically lacking in confidence, to provide additional loans into the real economy to compensate for the sucking out of credit by banks from northern Europe.