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OPINION: AL DUNLAP, VIC NIEDERHOFFER, WADE COOK, THE BEARDSTOWN LADIES: WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF BIZ AUTHORS WHO FLOP BIG-TIME: MAKING BOOK ON FINANCIAL BESTSELLERS

Media pundits and business observers pounced on the recent sacking of "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap, the chief executive officer…

Media pundits and business observers pounced on the recent sacking of "Chainsaw Al" Dunlap, the chief executive officer of Sunbeam Corp., as a watershed event. It was a justified comeuppance for a serial downsizer. Or it was another successful boardroom putsch executed by mutual fund manager Michael

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