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03/02/13 8:30 PM

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johnsyn

02/15/13 2:45 PM

Post #52

5:29 AM The Justice Department's $5B lawsuit against S&P (MHP) over its mortgage-bond ratings may be weakened by inconsistency between the DOJ and the SEC. For example, the latter blamed the failure of AAA-rated Delphinus CDO 2007-1 on Mizuho Financial, and said the Japanese bank gave faulty information to S&P. Mizuho paid $127.5M to settle a lawsuit. The DOJ, though, puts blame on S&P.

johnsyn

12/06/12 5:04 PM

Post #51

McGraw-Hill Announces Special Dividend
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- As part of its ongoing Growth and Value Plan to generate shareholder value, The McGraw-Hill Companies' Board of Directors (NYSE: MHP) today approved a special dividend in the amount of $2.50 per share on the Corporation's common stock, payable on December 27, 2012 to shareholders of record on December 18, 2012. This special dividend payment supersedes the Company's previously announced plans to repurchase up to $200 million of stock during the remainder of the year.

McGraw-Hill announced on November 26, 2012 that it had signed a definitive agreement to sell its McGraw-Hill Education business to investment funds affiliated with Apollo Global Management, LLC for $2.5 billion, subject to certain closing adjustments. The Company plans to use the proceeds of the sale, combined with the ongoing operating cash generated from its business, to sustain its share repurchase program, to make selective tuck-in acquisitions that enhance its portfolio of powerful brands and to pay off any short-term borrowing obligations. The transaction is expected to close in early 2013, subject to regulatory approval and customary closing conditions.

This special dividend is in addition to the regular quarterly dividend payment that will be paid on December 12, 2012 to shareholders of record on November 28, 2012. ($.255)

johnsyn

12/06/12 5:02 PM

Post #50

4:41 PM McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP): declares $2.50/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield %. For shareholders of record Dec. 18. Payable Dec. 27. Ex-div date Dec. 16. This Special dividend supersedes the repurchase plan of $200M.

johnsyn

11/02/12 7:24 AM

Post #49

7:15 AM McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP): Q3 EPS of $1.33 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $1.95B (+2% Y/Y) misses by $20M

johnsyn

10/29/12 9:29 AM

Post #48

The McGraw-Hill Companies Declares Quarterly Dividend

NEW YORK, Oct. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock. The dividend of $0.255 is payable on December 12, 2012, to shareholders of record on November 28, 2012.

The McGraw-Hill Companies has paid a dividend each year since 1937 and is one of fewer than 25 companies in the S&P 500 that has increased its dividend annually for the last 39 years. The annualized rate of $1.02 per share represents an average compound annual dividend growth rate of 9.6% since 1974.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies:

McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Dow Jones Indices, J.D. Power and Associates and Platts, a leader in commodities information. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2011, the Corporation has approximately 23,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

Investor Relations: http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/investor_relations

Get news direct from McGraw-Hill via RSS:

http://investor.mcgraw-hill.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96562&p=newsRSS

Contacts for The McGraw-Hill Companies:

Media Relations Contact:

Jason Feuchtwanger

Director, Corporate Media Relations

(212) 512-3151 (office)

(347) 419-4169 (mobile)

jason_feuchtwanger@mcgraw-hill.com

Investor Relations Contact:

Chip Merritt

Vice President, Investor Relations

(212) 512-4321 (office)

chip_merritt@mcgraw-hill.com

SOURCE The McGraw-Hill Companies

johnsyn

10/10/12 4:59 PM

Post #47

4:18 PM McGraw-Hill's (MHP) education unit is expected to draw final bids later this month from PE firms Bain Capital and Apollo Global (APO) as well as rival college textbook publisher Cengage Learning in a deal that could fetch $3B, Reuters reports. MHP wants to get more than $3B, and could still decide against a sale if the bids fail to meet its expectations.

johnsyn

10/10/12 9:08 AM

Post #46

Jeffries gives MHP a buy rating, raises P/T by $10 to $64

trakman

08/09/12 8:44 PM

Post #45

CGRA on the move again...check it out www.cgrowthcapital.com

johnsyn

08/03/12 7:39 AM

Post #44

4:31 AM McGraw-Hill (MHP) has received bids for its education unit from Bain, Thomas H. Lee Partners, Apollo Global Management (APO) and Cengage Learning, Reuters reports. The offers could value the business, the world's second-largest education company by sales, at around $3B. McGraw-Hill said last week it was evaluating a sale as an alternative to a spin-off.

johnsyn

08/02/12 11:43 AM

Post #43

9:41 AM McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) declares $0.255/share quarterly dividend, in line with previous. Forward yield 2.19%. For shareholders of record Aug 28. Payable Sep 12. Ex-div date Aug 24. (PR)

johnsyn

07/27/12 4:45 PM

Post #42

4:12 PM McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP) declares $0.30/share quarterly dividend, 17.6% increase from prior dividend of $0.255. Forward yield 2.55%. For shareholders of record Aug 09. Payable Aug 30. Ex-div date Aug 07.

johnsyn

07/26/12 5:05 PM

Post #41

1:47 PM The DOJ and SEC are investigating McGraw Hill (MHP +2.85%) unit S&P for possible violations in connection with its ratings of structured products, with McGraw Hill saying it is trying to persuade authorities not to file charges. It's not clear if today's news is related to a previous S&P disclosure about an SEC investigation.

johnsyn

07/26/12 1:22 PM

Post #40

http://seekingalpha.com/article/751851-the-mcgraw-hill-companies-management-discusses-q2-2012-results-earnings-call-transcript?source=email_rt_article_readmore&ifp=0

johnsyn

07/03/12 9:12 AM

Post #39

7:52 AM McGraw-Hill (MHP) and CME Group announce the launch of S&P Dow Jones Indices - their joint venture to combine Wall Street's best-known indicators. McGraw will own 73% of the new company and expects it to "add a couple of cents" to earnings.

johnsyn

05/02/12 9:45 AM

Post #38

Corporate Actions Data

Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
Today : Wednesday 2 May 2012
S&P Capital IQ, a leading provider of multi-asset class data, research and analytics, today announced an arrangement with Exchange Data International (EDI) to offer a new global dividends and corporate actions data service, spanning over 128 countries and 150 exchanges worldwide. This new data service is now available to customers across Findataportal via a customizable consolidated data feed. The Findataportal is a user friendly platform that offers a wide range of capabilities including search, portfolio management, news alerts and feed functionality and offers a consolidated data feed of best-in-class North American data along with the rich Global data from Exchange Data International.
Clients can search, screen and download detailed announcements on over 50 corporate actions and distribution event types for over 1 million globally listed securities, including depository receipts, equity and preferred shares and covered warrants, and for over 45,000 global funds, comprising 371 REITS, over 7,000 ETFS and HLDRs trusts, 544 Closed End Funds, 15,045 North American Mutual Funds and 22,844 Unit Investment Trusts.
"This new data service offers clients unparalleled flexibility in terms of delivery and customisation across a depth and breadth of dividend and corporate actions information," says Rui Carvalho, Managing Director, Enterprise Solutions, S&P Capital IQ. "Thanks to our partnership with EDI, S&P Capital IQ is able to offer dividend and corporate actions data service with a truly global footprint."
Jonathan Bloch, C.E.O at EDI says, "We are very pleased to offer our Global Corporate Actions and Dividends alongside the S&P Capital IQ North American corporate actions and dividend service. For the first time clients will receive this information in a consolidated feed which will allow them to view primary and secondary listings across the globe in the same format. This is a powerful combination."
Applications
The new data service helps investment companies in a number of different areas. These include research for internal or client queries, confirming data from an existing primary data provider and access to data not supplied by a current provider. The service also allows users to conduct queries based on market trends (for instance, searches based on increases or decreases in, and omitted or resumed, dividends) for research, model building and risk management purposes. In addition, users can calibrate information by specific date range, for instance by announcement date (for the front office), by record date (for securities processing) and by payable date (for account reconciliation).
The searching tools are also designed to aid with portfolio management, allowing users to search activity for securities in a portfolio based on any custom searching tools and thanks to the ability to activate automated client email alerts based on portfolio activity. Users can then also manage their portfolio or client portfolios based on positive or negative announcements or other reported activity on portfolio holdings.
About S&P Capital IQS&P Capital IQ, a business line of the McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is a leading provider of multi-asset class and real time data, research and analytics to institutional investors, investment and commercial banks, investment advisors and wealth managers, corporations and universities around the world.
We provide a broad suite of capabilities designed to help track performance, generate alpha, identify new trading and investment ideas, and perform risk analysis and mitigation strategies. Through leading desktop solutions such as the S&P Capital IQ, Global Credit Portal and MarketScope Advisor desktops; enterprise solutions such as S&P Capital IQ Valuations, and Compustat; and research offerings, including Leveraged Commentary & Data, Global Market Intelligence, and company and funds research, S&P Capital IQ sharpens financial intelligence into the wisdom today's investors need. For more information visit www.spcapitaliq.com.
About Exchange Data International (EDI)Exchange Data International (EDI) specialises in the collection and delivery of hard-to-get, accurate and high quality data to the financial industry. We provide customised data sets and ad-hoc feeds for Worldwide Corporate Actions, Worldwide Dividends, Worldwide End of Day Prices and Securities Reference Data. We pride ourselves on our flexibility and inventiveness and are committed to providing financial institutions with tailored business solutions. EDI constantly reviews and develops its product suite and geographic coverage to fulfil the financial industry's ever evolving needs.
SOURCE S&P Capital IQ

johnsyn

05/02/12 9:44 AM

Post #37

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johnsyn

04/26/12 10:45 AM

Post #36

The McGraw-Hill Companies Declares Quarterly Dividend
Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
Today : Thursday 26 April 2012
The Board of Directors of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) has approved a regular quarterly cash dividend on the Corporation's common stock. The dividend of $0.255 is payable on June 12, 2012, to shareholders of record on May 29, 2012.
The McGraw-Hill Companies has paid a dividend each year since 1937 and is one of fewer than 25 companies in the S&P 500 that has increased its dividend annually for the last 39 years. The annualized rate of $1.02 per share represents an average compound annual dividend growth rate of 9.6% since 1974.
About The McGraw-Hill Companies: McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2011, the Corporation has approximately 23,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

Investor Relations: http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/investor_relations
Get news direct from McGraw-Hill via RSS:http://investor.mcgraw-hill.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=96562&p=newsRSS

johnsyn

04/26/12 10:43 AM

Post #35

earnings transcript: http://seekingalpha.com/article/529641-the-mcgraw-hill-companies-ceo-hosts-2012-annual-shareholders-meeting-transcript?source=email_rt_article&ifp=0

johnsyn

04/24/12 1:03 PM

Post #34

Platts Report: China's Oil Demand Drops in March
Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
Today : Tuesday 24 April 2012
China's apparent* oil demand in March rose 3.3% year on year to 40.23 million metric tons (mt), or an average 9.5 million barrels per day (b/d), a Platts analysis of recent statistics released by the Chinese government showed.
"That's actually a recovery in the growth rate from the slowdown we saw hit in the fourth quarter of last year," said Song Yen Ling, Platts Senior Writer for China. "Growth rates have bounced back up to 2%-3%, as refiners stocked up ahead of the long Lunar New Year holiday and ahead of refinery turnarounds coming in the second quarter and seasonal diesel demand in the country's spring growing season."
However, from a month-to-month perspective, apparent daily oil demand in March was the lowest this year, below February's record 9.75 million b/d and the 9.63 million b/d in January. Growth rates for those two months were 2.4% and 1.0%, respectively, accounting for revisions in the China data and the extra day in February.
In the first quarter of 2012, China's overall apparent oil demand rose by 2.2% year on year to an average 9.63 million b/d, buoyed by higher refinery runs and net oil product imports.
In comparison, apparent oil demand grew just 0.7% year on year in December last year and by 1.6% in the fourth quarter.
China does not release official data on oil demand or commercial and strategic oil inventories. Platts calculates the country's oil demand based on official data on refiners' crude throughput and net oil product imports.
Analysts expect overall demand growth to accelerate in the coming months because of likely increased demand for diesel during the planting season in the agricultural sector. Higher manufacturing activity and bank loan growth in the economy also indicate oil demand could expand more in the second and third quarters.
However, there is likely to be some moderation in refinery runs as maintenance turnarounds start to kick-off in April and May, Song said.
Data from China's National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) released April 13 show China's refinery runs in March rose 1.9% year on year to 38.37 million mt or 9.07 million b/d. Daily runs in March were 2.6% lower than February's average of 9.31 million b/d.
According to customs data officially released by China's Customs Statistics (CCS) on April 21, crude oil imports in March totaled 23.55 million mt (5.57 million b/d). This is an increase of 8.7% year on year and down 6.7% from February's 5.97 million b/d.
Crude exports were 210,000 mt (49,700 b/d), representing a 38.2% drop from the same period last year. The CCS figures confirm data released 10 April by the NBS on its website.
Oil product imports in March rose 1% to 3.92 million mt (902,900 b/d) while oil product exports slid 20.2% year on year to 2.06 million mt (474,500 b/d).
In the first quarter, China's average daily refinery processing rate was 9.26 million b/d, up 2.2% year on year. Oil product imports fell 3.2% to 846,600 b/d while oil product exports were down nearly 9% to 475,500 b/d, meaning net oil product imports into China rose 5.1% year on year to 371,100 b/d.
MONTHLY TRADE DATA IN MILLION METRIC TONS:

Mar '12
Mar '11
%Chg
Feb '12
Jan '12
Dec '11
Nov '11

Net crude imports
23.34
21.33
9.42
23.21
23.10
21.59
22.56

Crude production
17.27
17.66
-2.21
16.33
17.36
16.98
16.46

Apparent demand
40.23
38.96
3.26
38.64
40.77
41.02
39.08

*Platts calculates China's apparent or implied oil demand on the basis of crude throughput volumes at the domestic refineries and net oil product imports, as reported by the National Bureau of Statistics and Chinese customs.
The government releases data on imports, exports, domestic crude production and refinery throughput data, but does not give official data on the country's actual oil consumption figure and oil stockpiles. Official statistics on oil storage are released intermittently.
Platts releases its monthly calculation of China's apparent demand between the 18th and 26th of every month via press release and via its website. Any use of this information must be appropriately attributed to Platts.
For more information on crude oil, visit the Platts website at www.platts.com. For Chinese-language information on oil and the energy and metals markets, visit http://www.platts.cn/.
About Platts: Founded in 1909, Platts is a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information and a premier source of benchmark prices for the physical and futures markets. Platts' news, pricing, analytics, commentary and conferences help customers make better-informed trading and business decisions and help the markets operate with greater transparency and efficiency. Customers in more than 150 countries benefit from Platts' coverage of the carbon emissions, coal, electricity, oil, natural gas, metals, nuclear power, petrochemical, and shipping markets. A division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), Platts is headquartered in New York with approximately 900 employees in more than 15 offices worldwide. Additional information is available at http://www.platts.com.
About The McGraw-Hill Companies: McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2010, the Corporation has approximately 21,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.
CONTACT: Kathleen Tanzy 212-904-2860 Kathleen_tanzy@platts.com
SOURCE Platts

johnsyn

04/24/12 1:01 PM

Post #33

7:35 AM McGraw-Hill Companies (MHP): Q1 EPS of $0.51 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $1.33B (+3.9% Y/Y) in-line. (PR)

johnsyn

04/18/12 5:34 PM

Post #32

Platts Launches 17 Weekly Renewable Energy Certificates Assessments
Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
Today : Wednesday 18 April 2012
Platts Launches 17 Weekly Renewable Energy Certificates Assessments Pricing Transparency Helps Electricity Industry Value Renewable Energy
PR Newswire
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012
WASHINGTON, April 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemical and metals information and benchmark price references provider, today said it has launched weekly price assessments for renewable energy certificates (RECs) covering 15 compliance products in use in eight U.S. states where renewable portfolio standards (RPS) have been mandated by state governments. Platts is also providing assessments for two voluntary products.
A REC represents the environmental attributes of a megawatt-hour (MWh) of electricity from a renewable energy facility, such as wind, solar or geothermal. They've become a tradable commodity used by load-serving entities to comply with states' renewable portfolio standards that require a specified portion of power to be sourced from a renewable energy generator. Some 29 states and the District of Columbia currently have such mandates.
"A renewable portfolio standard is the most widespread policy concept for encouraging the growth of renewable energy in the United States. And we're pleased to put our long experience in price discovery to work for this emerging market and shed light on the value of the corresponding renewable energy certificates," said Mike Wilczek, Platts senior managing editor, North American power and gas.
While RECs have no inherent value, unlike physical energy commodities such as coal and natural gas, their value follows the models of popular environmental products such as carbon dioxide allowances, carbon offsets, renewable identification numbers and sulfur dioxide/nitrogen oxide permits, which also got their start from the industry's need to comply with state or federal environmental regulations.
Platts' new weekly REC assessments include 15 different products eligible in eight states: California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. The REC products are broken out into categories for "solar technology" and "top-tier" renewable facilities. Platts also assesses a pair of Green-e certified REC products commonly used in the voluntary market.
"Our aim is to provide the industry with all the REC pricing and information it needs in one place," said Geoffrey Craig, Platts associate editor, power. "The need for price assessments, market commentary and news can only increase as the market deepens, widens and matures."
The U.S. REC market is seen growing in size from 133 million megawatts per hour in 2011, an increase of more than 20% from decade-ago levels, to 210 million MWh by 2015.
To accompany its new assessments announcement, Platts has just released this April 2012 Special Report explaining the fundamentals behind the REC market. To view this report, visit this link: http://www.platts.com/rec-report.
A fact sheet on Platts U.S. REC assessments can be found at this link.
For greater detail on the calculations for the new assessments, see Platts' methodology and specifications guidelines for U.S. renewable energy certificates, which were developed in consultation with a cross-section of power industry and market participants. To learn more about the broader topic of Platts' market-on-close price assessment processes in power, visit this link of the Platts website.
Quoted in U.S. dollars per MWh, the weekly Platts RECs reflect market values as of Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time and are published every Thursday in real-time service Platts Electricity Alert, Platts Market Center, Platts Market Data and on Friday in the newsletter Platts Megawatt Daily. Platts has published energy news, markets fundamentals and price assessments for more than a century.
About Platts: Founded in 1909, Platts is a leading global provider of energy, petrochemicals and metals information and a premier source of benchmark prices for the physical and futures markets. Platts' news, pricing, analytics, commentary and conferences help customers make better-informed trading and business decisions and help the markets operate with greater transparency and efficiency. Customers in more than 150 countries benefit from Platts' coverage of the carbon emissions, coal, electricity, oil, natural gas, metals, nuclear power, petrochemical, and shipping markets. A division of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP), Platts is headquartered in New York with approximately 900 employees in more than 15 offices worldwide. Additional information is available at http://www.platts.com.
About The McGraw-Hill Companies: McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2011, the Corporation has approximately 23,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.
CONTACT: Kathleen Tanzy 212-904-2860 Kathleen_tanzy@platts.com
SOURCE Platts

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02/02/12 2:34 AM

Post #31

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johnsyn

12/31/11 8:55 AM

Post #30

The McGraw-Hill Companies Completes Sale of Broadcasting Group to E.W. Scripps

Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
Today : Saturday 31 December 2011
The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) today completed the sale of its Broadcasting Group to The E.W. Scripps Company. As previously announced, the purchase price of the nine-station Broadcasting Group was $212 million in cash.

The divestiture of the Broadcasting Group, a non-core asset, was carried out pursuant to the Corporation's Growth and Value Plan, which will create two focused operating companies, McGraw-Hill Financial and McGraw-Hill Education, and is designed to accelerate growth and enhance shareholder value.

"I thank the talented men and women of these stations for their valuable contributions to McGraw-Hill and know they are joining a respected media organization where they will continue delivering news, insights and entertainment," said Harold McGraw III, Chairman, President and CEO of The McGraw-Hill Companies. "Completing this transaction demonstrates good progress on our Growth and Value Plan. As we close out 2011, we are excited about the opportunities ahead."

The Broadcasting Group includes ABC affiliates in Denver, Colorado (KMGH-TV), San Diego, California (KGTV), Bakersfield, California (KERO-TV), Indianapolis, Indiana (WRTV) and Azteca America affiliates in Denver, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, San Diego and Bakersfield.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies:

McGraw-Hill announced on September 12, 2011, its intention to separate into two public companies: McGraw-Hill Financial, a leading provider of content and analytics to global financial markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, a leading education company focused on digital learning and education services worldwide. McGraw-Hill Financial's leading brands include Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, S&P Capital IQ, S&P Indices, Platts energy information services and J.D. Power and Associates. With sales of $6.2 billion in 2010, the Corporation has approximately 21,000 employees across more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

Forward-Looking Statements:

The forward-looking statements in this news release (identified by the future tense and words like "expects," "targeted" and "projected") involve risks and uncertainties, are subject to change, and actual results may differ materially from the Corporation's expectations, based on various important factors, including worldwide economic, financial, liquidity, political and regulatory conditions; the health of debt (including U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations), equity and commodities markets, including possible future interest rate changes; the health of the economy and in advertising; the level of expenditures and state new adoptions and open territory sales in the education market; the successful marketing of competitive products; and the effect of competitive products and pricing. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in McGraw-Hill's 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K which, along with the Corporation's other filings with the SEC, are available on the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).

Investor Relations:Donald S. RubinSenior Vice President, Investor Relations (212) 512-4321 (office) donald_rubin@mcgraw-hill.com

News Media:Patti RockenwagnerSenior Vice President, Marketing and Communications(212) 512-3533 (office)patti_rockenwagner@mcgraw-hill.com

Jason FeuchtwangerDirector, Corporate Media Relations212-512-3151 (office)347-419-4169 (cell)jason_feuchtwanger@mcgraw-hill.com

SOURCE The McGraw-Hill Companies

johnsyn

12/31/11 8:54 AM

Post #29

12:55 PM McGraw-Hill (MHP -0.5%) says it's completed the sale of its former broadcasting group and its nine television stations to Scripps (SSP -0.6%) for $212M. The sale includes ABC-affiliated stations in Denver, Indianapolis, San Diego and Bakersfield, plus five stations affiliated with the Spanish-language Azteca America network in Colorado and southern California
SEEKING ALPHA

johnsyn

09/12/11 7:54 AM

Post #28

McGraw-Hill Announces Comprehensive Growth and Value Plan to Increase Shareholder Value
Mcgraw Hill (NYSE:MHP)
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Today : Monday 12 September 2011
The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously approved a comprehensive Growth and Value Plan that includes separation into two strong public companies: McGraw-Hill Markets, primarily focused on capital and commodities markets, and McGraw-Hill Education, focused on education services and digital learning.

The three-part Plan is designed to accelerate growth and increase shareholder value by:

1. Creating two "pure-play" companies with the scale, and the capital and cost structures to fully leverage their world-class franchises, iconic brands, and leading market positions

2. Reducing costs significantly to ensure efficient operating structures for the two new companies

3. Accelerating the pace of share repurchases to a total of $1 billion for the full year 2011 (approximately $540 million repurchased year to date)

The Growth and Value Plan will create two focused operating companies with deeper customer engagement, right-sized cost structures, and increased management focus and accountability. The creation of two companies with tailored capital structures and financial policies will also enhance strategic and financial flexibility and establish two attractive equity currencies.

Harold (Terry) McGraw III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "Our Growth and Value Plan will transform a multifaceted corporation into two powerful companies, each with highly focused strategies, aligned customer bases and interconnected markets. After thorough analysis, the Board determined that the creation of these two independent companies is the best and most reliable way to generate superior shareholder value. Because both companies will be sharply defined, they will create two pure-play investment opportunities and present a more transparent capital markets profile, enabling investors to better assess their value, performance and potential."

McGraw-Hill Markets: A Global Leader Focused on Capital and Commodities MarketsMcGraw-Hill Markets, which will be led by Terry McGraw as Chairman, President and CEO, will be a fast-growing, high-margin global company that enables the functioning and growth of the increasingly interconnected global capital and commodities markets by providing customers with high-value benchmarks, information, and solutions. McGraw-Hill Markets will leverage its proprietary data and analytics platforms to provide customers with a broad array of information, market insights and integrated solutions to inform decision-making on trillions of dollars of assets.

McGraw-Hill Markets, the working name for this Company, will include the following iconic brands in the capital and commodities markets: Standard & Poor's, the world's foremost provider of credit ratings; S&P Indices, the world's leading index business; the newly launched S&P Capital IQ, a leading global provider of multi-asset class data, research, benchmarks and analytics; and Platts, the leading global provider of information and indices in energy, petrochemicals and metals. Combined, the capital and commodities businesses account for approximately 90% of McGraw-Hill Market's annual revenues.

McGraw-Hill Markets will also include businesses in attractive commercial sectors such as J.D. Power and Associates, a global market research and services company, and leading franchises in the construction and aerospace industries.

McGraw-Hill Markets serves customers in more than 150 countries and expects 2011 revenues of approximately $4 billion with close to 40% from international markets. The Company expects to drive double-digit growth and profitability by expanding upon and fully exploiting the many operational and strategic synergies that exist among McGraw-Hill Markets' brands, including overlapping customer bases, shared technology platforms, optimized access to global capital markets, and an international employee base active in growth markets. McGraw-Hill Markets' scale and leadership positions will also enable it to capitalize on growth trends and extend its platforms in fast-developing emerging markets.

Mr. McGraw continued, "There is a growing need for investors to be able to track price movements across all asset classes. At the same time, there is a dearth of tools which meet this need. This creates an existing and fast-growing opportunity for McGraw-Hill Markets to deliver integrated solutions on commodities, fixed income, equity, credit, and funds that inform strategy and trade ideas on cash, derivatives and volatility indices. When our premier brands are combined into one focused operating company, McGraw-Hill Markets immediately becomes the player with the greatest breadth of capabilities in the financial markets."

McGraw-Hill Education: A Global Leader in EducationMcGraw-Hill Education, the second largest education company in the world, will become an independent business operating in the K-12, higher education and professional education markets. This education services and digital learning company will be well positioned as one of the few companies serving the entire K-12 and higher and professional education markets globally. It offers educational materials online and in print for K-12, supplemental digital services to the elementary and high-school markets, and post-secondary educational resources and digital learning systems to universities and other higher education and professional institutions and organizations worldwide.

McGraw-Hill Education expects revenues of approximately $2.4 billion in 2011. As an independent education company, it will be able to optimize its solid cash generation capabilities and strong balance sheet to pursue accelerated growth strategies and augment its organic growth with digital services and/or via acquisitions or strategic partnerships. For example, it will have greater flexibility to develop and deploy new products and services to address secular trends toward digital education platforms and to pursue higher-margin opportunities in educational services such as online instructional and school digital services. Internationally, the company will be better positioned to capitalize on education spending and adult skills training in China, India, Brazil and other emerging markets, which are projected to continue to grow at double-digit rates.

As part of the Growth and Value Plan, a search is underway to recruit a CEO for McGraw-Hill Education. Robert Bahash, currently President of the Education segment, has contributed significantly to the development of plans for the independent Education company and will continue as President until the new CEO has been appointed.

From Strategic Portfolio Review to Growth and Value PlanMr. McGraw noted, "We are establishing two cohesive, high-performing operating companies that are structured to meet customer needs and positioned for sustainable growth and shareholder value creation in rapidly evolving global markets. This will provide exciting opportunities for our employees who will be part of two great companies with rich histories and bright futures."

Today's announcement results from the comprehensive portfolio review of McGraw-Hill's businesses that began in the second half of 2010. The review, which was conducted by management and the Board with assistance from external advisors, was designed to unlock and increase shareholder value by prioritizing areas of future investment and modifying organizational structures to sharpen focus, increase efficiencies, and accelerate growth.

As a result of this review, the Company thus far has:

•Established McGraw-Hill Financial as a new segment (November 2010)
•Expanded the high-growth Platts business through two bolt-on acquisitions: BENTEK Energy (January 2011) and the Steel Business Briefing Group (July 2011)
•Announced plans to sell the Broadcasting Group (June 2011)
•Increased share repurchases with 50 million share authorization (June 2011)
Today, the Company announced it will market its unique combination of multi-asset-class data, benchmarks and analytics products under two master brands, S&P Capital IQ and S&P Indices, to reflect customers' desire to receive high-value content through a consolidated set of powerful global platforms. Customer and market research concluded that these two brands complement each other and provide significant brand extension in the financial information industry.

Cost Reduction Program The establishment of McGraw-Hill Markets and McGraw-Hill Education marks a significant milestone as the Company moves to implement its new Growth and Value Plan. The Company is also focused on reducing costs to ensure efficient operating structures for the two new companies. The Company is conducting an extensive cost reduction program focused on over $1 billion of corporate expense and administrative and technology costs across the organization. In addition to overall cost reductions, this program will disaggregate shared services and establish two appropriately-sized corporate centers. The Company will provide updates on its progress as the cost reduction program moves forward.

Accelerated Share RepurchasesThe Company is accelerating share repurchases and plans to repurchase $1 billion of shares in 2011. In the third quarter to date, the Company has repurchased 6.4 million shares for $240 million. Year-to-date, the Company has repurchased 14.1 million shares for $540.6 million. The Company has the flexibility to continue repurchasing shares in 2012 under its current authorization.

Transaction ConditionsMcGraw-Hill management is developing detailed separation plans, which will be subject to approval by the Board of Directors. The Company expects to complete the transaction by the end of 2012 through a tax-free spin-off of the education business to McGraw-Hill shareholders, subject to various conditions including final Board approval and a tax ruling from the Internal Revenue Service. While it is McGraw-Hill's intention to effect this separation, there can be no guarantee that it will be concluded or assurance as to the terms of the transaction. The Company's financial advisors are Goldman Sachs and Evercore Partners.

Conference Call/Webcast Scheduled for 8:30 AM Eastern Time on September 12, 2011: The Corporation's senior management will host a conference call at 8:30 AM Eastern Time. This call is open to all interested parties. Discussions may include forward-looking information. Additional information presented on the conference call may be made available on the Corporation's Investor Relations website at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/investor_relations.

Webcast Instructions: Live and ReplayThe webcast will be available live and in replay through the Corporation's Investor Relations website at http://investor.mcgraw-hill.com/phoenix.zhtml?p=irol-eventDetails&c=96562&eventID=4197197 (Please copy and paste URL into Web browser.) The archived replay will be available beginning two hours after the conclusion of the live call and will remain available for one year.

Telephone Access: Live and ReplayTelephone participants are requested to dial in by 8:20 AM. The passcode is "McGraw-Hill" and the conference leader is Harold McGraw III.

•For callers in the U.S.: (888) 391-6568
•For callers outside the U.S.: +1 (415) 228-4733 (long distance charges will apply)
The recorded telephone replay will be available beginning two hours after the conclusion of the call and will remain available until October 12, 2011.

•For callers in the U.S.: (800) 513-1167
•For callers outside the U.S.: +1 (402) 344-6797 (long distance charges will apply)
Presenters' Slides & RemarksThe presenters' slides are available for downloading at the Corporation's Investor Relations website at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/investor_relations. The final prepared remarks will be available for downloading by the end of the business day.

Forward-looking Statements The forward-looking statements in this news release (identified by the future tense and words like "expects," "targeted" and "projected") involve risks and uncertainties, are subject to change, and actual results may differ materially from the Company's expectations, based on various important factors, including worldwide economic, financial, liquidity, political and regulatory conditions; the health of debt (including U.S. residential mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations), equity and commodities markets, including possible future interest rate changes; the health of the economy and in advertising; the level of expenditures and state new adoptions and open territory sales in the education market; the successful marketing of competitive products; and the effect of competitive products and pricing. Additional factors that could cause results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements can be found in McGraw-Hill's 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K which, along with the Company's other filings with the SEC, are available on the SEC's website (www.sec.gov).

Contacts:Investor Relations:Donald S. Rubin, Senior Vice President, Investor Relations(212) 512-4321 (office) donald_rubin@mcgraw-hill.com

News Media:Patti Rockenwagner, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications(212) 512-3533 (office)patti_rockenwagner@mcgraw-hill.com

George Sard, Brandy Bergman, or Michael Henson of Sard Verbinnen & Co(212) 687-8080

SOURCE The McGraw-Hill Companies

johnsyn

09/12/11 7:52 AM

Post #27

SPIN-OFF, WILL GET RESTRICTED SHARES OF NEW COMPANYTransaction Conditions
McGraw-Hill management is developing detailed separation plans, which will be subject to approval by the Board of Directors. The Company expects to complete the transaction by the end of 2012 through a tax-free spin-off of the education business to McGraw-Hill shareholders, subject to various conditions including final Board approval and a tax ruling from the Internal Revenue Service. While it is McGraw-Hill's intention to effect this separation, there can be no guarantee that it will be concluded or assurance as to the terms of the transaction.

johnsyn

07/13/11 10:29 AM

Post #26

Re: #24: @vallence - McGraw-Hill to Vend Broadcast Arm

McGraw-Hill (MHP_) upgraded at Goldman from Neutral to Buy. $50 price target. News Corp., Google: Analysts' New Ratings
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McGraw-Hill (MHP_) upgraded at Goldman from Neutral to Buy. $50 price target. Company trades at a discount to its peers.

SUEZIA

06/29/11 4:21 AM

Post #25

Re: #24: @vallence - McGraw-Hill to Vend Broadcast Arm

SORRY are you still positive on SRFDF?(STARFIELD RESOURCES)THANK YOU.

vallence

06/23/11 7:10 PM

Post #24

McGraw-Hill to Vend Broadcast Arm

By: Zacks Equity Research: "The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc. (MHP - Analyst Report) has decided to dispose its Broadcasting Group with an aim to re-evaluate its portfolio of businesses and concentrate more on global brands, and thereby enhance shareholder value through proper capital allocation. The company recently hired Morgan Stanley (MS - Analyst Report) for advice on the divestiture process." AND "McGraw-Hill, a publisher and provider of financial information and media services, is also assessing general and administrative expenses to run all its divisions smoothly."

What the above quotes are saying is that MHP has hit the ICEBERG and has turned the pumps on and are making ready the life boats. The ICEBERG is the collapsing economy and the hoards of either angry students that are refusing to buy the exorbitant priced text books or just can not afford the overall high price of college. Students are finally standing up and saying we have had enough and the professors that are in bed with the publishing companies and the publishing companies themselves can take their expensive text books and shove them.

This same type of social/economic movement will happen with the MHP's business information divisions when enough of the investment public have lost the shirts off their backs in collapsing markets. Who needs business information data when you have no money to invest and the quality of the information is suspect.

The dumping of the Broadcasting Group and Business Week Magazine before it, is just the beginning of the meat axe chopping off the companies appendages. I would dump the stock now and buy it back when I do some where below $1.00 when the company has shrunk back to it's former size for survival in the Greatest Depression we are just beginning to enter. For more information read the rest of my post on the major stock message boards and read my free informative site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/.

vallence

06/16/11 12:35 PM

Post #23

The Shrinking McGraw-Hill Company.
Below is an article by Shira Ovide that just came out that is saying what I said since 2006 and is in my free website http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ . McGraw-Hill is going to shrink back to their core business in this economic collapse happening now which will become the Greatest Depression in the economic history of humans . It has been happening since 2006 but the company has been trying to gloss it over-not any more, the cat is out of the bag. News Week Magazine publication was dumped and now their broadcast networks are on the block for sale and the national media is not even calling this economic down turn a Depression yet. Mcgraw-Hills Higher Education text book division has been in trouble since 2006 and cut backs have happened every year. Their "cat fight" with Prentice Hall Publishing(aka Pearson) over the supremacy of certain text books(by those of questionable mental stability) has taken the focus off what should be the real issues facing MHP. Those issues are the production of good basic text not Hollywood productions, at the lowest cost to students in this Greatest Depression. More on this in my next article. Those invested in MHP now best read my previous articles on the comparison between Barrick Gold Mining and McGraw-Hill Publishing and my free site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and re-evaluate as to whether they really want to be holding MHP stock. I have always made it clear that I think MHP will survive the coming long winter of the Greatest Depression but the company will only be a fraction of it's current size and the share price will end up below one dollar. Sell MHP now and buy one of the hundreds of excellent gold and silver mining companies and buy MHP back when I do when it is below one dollar.
June 14, 2011
The Incredibly Shrinking McGraw-Hill
By Shira Ovide
McGraw-Hill, best known for its ownership of Standard & Poor’s and for being among the biggest textbook companies around, is going on diet.
The company announced today it is putting its TV stations up for sale. Remember that McGraw-Hill already has sold another odd-fit media company in its portfolio, BusinessWeek magazine. (Yes, McGraw-Hill does own TV stations. Nine of them to be exact, including in big markets Denver and San Diego.)
McGraw-Hill also tucked another disclosure into its news release: ”The Company is also evaluating G&A costs across the corporation to ensure it continues to support its businesses efficiently.” This is code for “we’re looking to cut costs for people and other things. Watch out.”
The media businesses McGraw-Hill has sold or plans to sell aren’t huge chunks of the enterprise. McGraw-Hill said the TV stations had revenue of nearly $100 million last year, compared to total company revenue of $6.17 billion. BusinessWeek similarly was a speck.

vallence

06/12/11 4:35 PM

Post #22

McGraw-Hill Publishing or Barrick Mining Company? I my previous article "Compare MHP McGraw-Hill Publishing and ABX Barrick Gold ", I ask the reader to compare the option to either buying Barrick Gold Mining or McGraw-Hill Publishing. As stated I own neither company. In the past two months since the posting of this article the news has become even more grim, the unemployment now over 22%(the real figure) and home defaults falling off the edge of the Grand Canyon after a brief calm as the legal wrangling on foreclosures have been resolved. There is no doubt that the gold and it's gold and silver mining companies are just beginning their real bull market now and there will be years of increasing prices. You have to be living under a rock not to known this.

It is also obvious from recent news now being published on the main networks which means the story is already old news, that many of the college degrees today are not worth the paper they are printed on(much like the USD). It has also been in the news that the universities and colleges have grossly over expanded in the past 10 years and are in the beginning of a rapid contraction. Being an intelligent reader you can add these basic facts together and come up with the effect this will have on the publishing companies supplying those big fat glossy new text books with even fatter prices on them to prospective students.

The Student population at colleges and universities around the country and world is going to plummet and the students that do make it in will not buy the text books(See article on the site, "Below is a recent article from the New York Times"). Professors will keep their current text and use them until the pages fall out. Professors will also put several copies of the book used on reserve at the university library for their students to check out for the standard 2-3 hours to read and or copy select pages. McGraw-Hill and publishing companies like them with their egotistic driven thick, glossy books are going to be as lucrative as stock in the housing industry is today. So the question is do you want to be in a declining industry or a rising one? Think about it and Sell MHP and buy into the mining companies. For more information read the rest of my post on the major stock message boards and read my free informative site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/.

vallence

03/27/11 12:30 PM

Post #21

Below is a recent article from the New York Times. As stated in one of my previous articles, do you want to own Barrick Gold Corp ABX or McGraw-Hill Publishing MHP, at the beginning of this Bull Market in Precious Metals and the collapse of the old consumerism society where college degrees can not even guarantee a job at McDonalds. Maybe McGraw-Hill and the other publishing companies like it can re-tool and produce toilet paper instead of text books, for toilet paper always has a buyer. Or we can just place those text books in the bathrooms (outhouses for you homeless) like the old Sear & Roebuck catalogs I remember as a young boy. There's always a solution for those with an imagination. Maybe they will hire me as a problem solver?
NEW YORK TIMES
“WE all enjoy speculating about which Arab regime will be toppled next, but maybe we should be looking closer to home. High unemployment? Check. Out-of-touch elites? Check. Frustrated young people? As a 24- year-old American, I can testify that this rich democracy has plenty of those too.
About one-fourth of Egyptian workers under 25 are unemployed, a statistic that is often cited as a reason for the revolution there. In the United States, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in January an official unemployment rate of 21 percent for workers ages 16 to 24.
My generation was taught that all we needed to succeed was an education and hard work. Tell that to my friend from high school who studied Chinese and international relations at a top-tier college. He had the misfortune to graduate in the class of 2009, and could find paid work only as a lifeguard and a personal trainer. Unpaid internships at research institutes led to nothing. After more than a year he moved back in with his parents.
Millions of college graduates in rich nations could tell similar stories. In Italy, Portugal and Spain, about one-fourth of college graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed. In the United States, the official unemployment rate for this group is 11.2 percent, but for college graduates 25 and over it is only 4.5 percent.
The true unemployment rate for young graduates is most likely even higher because it fails to account for those who went to graduate school in an attempt to ride out the economic storm or fled the country to teach English overseas. It would be higher still if it accounted for all of those young graduates who have given up looking for full-time work, and are working part time for lack of any alternative.
The cost of youth unemployment is not only financial, but also emotional. Having a job is supposed to be the reward for hours of SAT prep, evenings spent on homework instead of with friends and countless all-nighters writing papers. The millions of young people who cannot get jobs or who take work that does not require a college education are in danger of losing their faith in the future. They are indefinitely postponing the life they wanted and prepared for; all that matters is finding rent money. Even if the job market becomes as robust as it was in 2007 - something economists say could take more than a decade - my generation will have lost years of career-building experience.
The uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa are a warning for the developed world. Even if an Egyptian-style revolution breaking out in a rich democracy is unthinkable, it is easy to recognize the frustration of a generation that lacks opportunity. Indeed, the "desperate generation" in Portugal got tens of thousands of people to participate in nationwide protests on March 12. How much longer until the rest of the rich world follows their lead?”

Bart Myers Free

03/23/11 10:40 AM

Post #20

Benchmark has released a report in which the Price Target of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. (NYSE: MHP) is raised to $41.00.

Benchmark writes, "We maintain our Hold rating on McGraw-Hill and previous EPS estimates, but raise our price target to $41 using a market multiple of EPS (14x). While the outlook has improved for financial services, this remains offset by expected weakness in the Education Group."

Source: http://www.benzinga.com/analyst-ratings/analyst-color/11/03/946083/benchmark-raises-pt-on-mhp-to-41#ixzz1HQwsHfyV

WorstTraderEver Free

03/03/11 10:51 PM

Post #19

MHP - Daily Candlesticks

vallence

03/01/11 9:56 PM

Post #18

You Be The Judge

Below is a letter I just sent to the top echelon of McGraw-Hill regarding one of their authors. In my past articles I have told the story of the perverted nature of the US college and university campuses created by professors and upper level management that allows for and propagates creatures like Dr Burdge who writes for McGraw-Hill. This is a systemic sickness of greed and arrogance that runs through all the text book publishing companies and the university professors and management. They all think that they are to big to be reached which allows for their cult mystic both on the campuses and in the board rooms of the publishing companies. I told my oldest son Beau 4 years ago, now 20, that evil can be defeated if it is drug out into the light of day and exposed. Dr Burdge and McGraw-Hill and others will be exposed. As Warren Buffet said, we will see who is wearing a bathing suit when the tide goes out. Read my other post on the subject and the information site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ . You judge for yourself if you want to be invested in companies like this.

McGraw-Hill Companies
Dr Julia Burdge is a writer for you and has a text book out “Chemistry” under your label. Below is an email communication between my youngest son Sam Burdge and me. I want to make this VERY clear to all those in your company, your Dr Burdge is a sick demented perverted individual in which your company had a big part in creating. To lie to her youngest son regarding his passport is truly sick. Sam will be free of the evil creature Dr Burdge in June of this year but she will still be associated with you and I will never let McGraw-Hill forget that. Every mistake you make, every drop in your stock price in the coming economic depression I will be there and I will publish the truth, all in graphic detail until you rid your sick company of Dr Burdge and apologize to Sam and his brother Beau for what you have done.
Regards,

Christopher Burdge
From: ########52@hushmail.com
To: ########rior@hushmail.com
Cc: ###otwb@hushmail.com
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:40:14 -0800

Sam

Just another lie from a sick evil person. The fact is she could not have left Malta with you Sam, without your passport(customs would not allow it) or entered Germany with out it or leave
Germany(German customs would not allow it) nor entered the USA with out you having your passport(USA customs would not allow it).There are no exceptions here in this, this is the law of the land in ALL countries. I want both you and Beau to remember this lie (of many she has said) as an example of her demented perverted behavior. Beau knows you had the passport when you left and you saw she had it in Frankfurt, Germany to get you in and out of that country. She has degenerated down into this state where she tells lies she cannot possible defend and for nothing as she knows you are leaving and has no control over you after 18. The way "she" meaning Dr Burdge deals with her behavior is totally blocking out the past just like she has blocked out her oldest son Beau and to her he
does not exist. His only crime was to stand up to her at 16 during your forced abduction from Malta Sam at 14 years old and completely against your will. Dr Burdge's life time of clinical depression and
15 years on medication along with McGraw-Hill Publishing telling her the big money was coming for writing books for them has created a creature that will in the end destroy herself and sow the seeds of Mcgraw-Hill Publishing's decline. McGraw-Hill Publishing and the people who run it are no better than the demented pervert of a text book writer they hired in Dr Julia Burdge, the creature that was once your mother. Your Dad

On Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:02:17 -0800 ########ior@hushmail.com wrote:
<Neil has returned to his home after some time in the hospital with
<pneumonia, Julia has adamantly claimed that she does not have my
<passport and that you do, though I sense that this is complete
<######## because I remember her having my passport while in the
<frankfurt ariport in germany.
<Sam Burdge

vallence

02/21/11 11:11 AM

Post #17

Compare MHP McGraw-Hill Publishing and ABX Barrick Gold

Compare MHP McGraw-Hill Publishing and ABX Barrick Gold Corp and ask yourself which one do I really want to hold in the coming economic collapse. Of course if you believe the current government dribble about there being a recovery then stop here and return to your position with you head in the sand. No one with one iota of intelligence believes that this charade of an economy in this country will last much longer and inflation followed by hyper inflation and/or US Dollars default will happen. Given this very real scenario that is at our door step, then which company would you want to own? To clarify this I own neither company and have no intention of buying either in the near term. The comparison of the two companies is because both are giants in their own industry, one publishing and information and the other gold/silver mining. Barrick has a stock price of $51 and total value in stock price of $44,712,172,833 a/o Feb 18, 2011. McGraw-Hill has a stock price of $37 and a total value in stock of $12,214,914,281 a/o Feb 18, 2011. Both are giving dividends but I believe Barrick is considerably more per year than McGraw-Hill but dividends here are not the issue. What is really the point is which company is going to continually head up in price and which will dive down in price. They are at opposite ends of the investment cycles, one the biggest gold producer in the world (and we all know where gold is heading) and the other a book publisher and information peddler. Barrick is just at the beginning of the gold bull market that will last for many years and McGraw-Hill is at it's end of the consumerism greed market and is crashing now and only held above water by the Federal Reserve QE1 and QE2 money printing scam. Barrick and a couple thousand other mining companies in the precious metals are benefiting from the printing press scam of the government. McGraw-Hill's services in the information industry, their largest income, will not be needed and probably scorned in the coming years because of their bad behavior in the past and people will only care about where their next meal will come from and not McGraw-Hill information. McGraw-Hill textbook division which is only about 17% of the companies income now will virtually blow away in the wind because there will be few college students in the Greatest Depression heading our way and many colleges and universities will drastically cut back or close their doors. Barrick on the other hand with the other couple thousand mining companies will supply the real money in gold and silver that will re-float the world economies the way it use to be when gold backed the world currencies. As stated before I don't own Barrick not because it is not a good company but because in my view there are other similar but smaller companies in the precious metals that will appreciate in stock price more than Barrick will. So back to the original question which company or company in their stock sector do you want to own in the coming (current) collapse, a gold and silver producer or a book and information peddler? Or you can just go back to watching the TV and stick your head back in the sand because we all know the government will protect us all and that big social security check will always be there. Buy the precious metal stocks and dump the publishers like McGraw-Hill while you still have time. Read my other post on the subject and the information site http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ . There will be a time to buy McGraw-Hill many years from now when it is below a dollar a share but now it is time to dump it and buy the metals.

vallence

02/05/11 3:11 PM

Post #16

“The McGraw-Hill School Education Group's revenue declined by 7.7% in the fourth quarter in 2010, and their Higher Education, Professional and International Group's revenue declined 3.3% in 2010 compared to 2009.” This decline will look infinitesimal when compared to the same figures two years from now. I stated it best in a previous article, “Dump The Publishers Like McGraw-Hill” which is copied below. Read http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and my other post on the message boards about them and get out while you can.

Dump The Publishers Like McGraw-Hill
The number two prediction of the National Inflation Association top 10 predictions for 2011 is the the beginning of the bankruptcy of the American colleges. The article posted below explains what I have been saying for some time. The college and university system is as corrupt and wasteful as the Federal Government is. The publishing companies that supply the flashy text books at exorbitant prices which students are forced to buy, by demand of corrupt professors who may be the author or aspiring to be one are as guilty as the university system itself. The party is ending and publishing companies like McGraw-Hill who supply such text books are going to take the fall in the next few years. With the the rapid decline of the university population because of the imploding economy and soon to be shut down of the also corrupt student loan scam, there will be no need for more flashy text books. The older ones in the 4th or above additions will be used until the pages fall out and professors will have to actual get off their ass and learn to teach instead of being parasites. Read my free website http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and sell McGraw-Hill now if you own it and buy it back south of $1.00 per share in 3-5 years from now. Read my other post about the company and corrupt system which is not just limited to Mcgraw-Hill.

2) Colleges will begin to go bankrupt and close their doors.

We have a college education bubble in America that was made possible by the U.S. government's willingness to give out cheap and easy student loans. With all of the technological advances that have been taking place worldwide, the cost for a college education in America should be getting cheaper. Instead, private four-year colleges have averaged 5.6% tuition inflation over the past six years.

College tuitions are the one thing in America that never declined in price during the panic of 2008. Despite collapsing stock market and Real Estate prices, college tuition costs surged to new highs as Americans instinctively sought to become better educated in order to better ride out and survive the economic crisis. Unfortunately, American students who overpaid for college educations are graduating and finding out that their degrees are worthless and no jobs are available for them. They would have been better off going straight into the work force and investing their money into gold and silver. That way, they would have real wealth today instead of debt and would already have valuable work place experience, which is much more important than any piece of paper.

Colleges and universities took on ambitious construction projects and built new libraries, gyms, and sporting venues, that added no value to the education of students. These projects were intended for the sole purpose of impressing students and their families. The administrators of these colleges knew that no matter how high tuitions rose, students would be able to simply borrow more from the government in order to pay them.

Americans today can purchase just about any type of good on Amazon.com, cheaper than they can find it in retail stores. This is because Amazon.com is a lot more efficient and doesn't have the overhead costs of brick and mortar retailers. NIA expects to see a new trend of Americans seeking to become educated cheaply over the Internet. There will be a huge drop off in demand for traditional college degrees. NIA expects to see many colleges default on their debts in 2011. These colleges will be forced to either downsize and educate students more cost effectively or close their doors for good.

vallence

01/26/11 5:08 PM

Post #15

THE ALLUSION
Compare the 10, 5 and 1 year stock chart of McGraw-Hill and you get a completely different view of the company. Like the old story of the 3 blind men describing what an elephant is, one from the trunk, one from the massive body and the other from the tail. The one year charts makes McGraw-Hill look like a roaring undefeatable dynamo with no limits to the up side. The 5 year charts shows the companies real weakness with it's collapse from the high of $72 to about $16. The 10 year chart tells the whole story of where the company came from and where it is really going. The one year chart run up in price is due to pure QE-1 printing of money by the Federal Reserve and dumping it into the markets through the myriad of conduits at its disposal including the infamous Plunge Protection Team. Yes the Plunge Protection Team does exist, Alan Greenspan admitted it under intense questioning by Congress members before he left office, he should know he created it when the crash of 1987 happened. It worked, illegal but that does not seem to mater any more in today's government.

With QE-2 in full swing and the Chinese saying that they will not tolerate the devaluation of all the US cash and US Treasury Notes by continued QE actions by the Federal Reserve, then the game will end in 2011 and so will the QE run up of McGraw-Hill and other companies like it. With the colleges and universities shrinking quickly or shutting their doors in some cases in the coming Greatest Depression, there will be little need for any high priced flashy text books or their greedy authors. The other companies of the McGraw-Hill Family like Standard & Poors or JD Power will not be needed as no one will want information about investing in stocks or bonds, for a quick look out the widow at the soup kitchen lines will be a much better indicator. Read http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and my other post on the message boards about them and get out while you can. The run up in the past year is all an allusion created by the QE Federal Reserve money and mainstream media hype. The “technicals looking good” as some say are nothing more than the allusion of Federal Reserve printing. You want to see what it will look like then observe the plummet from $72 to $16 on MHP charts. This will seem mild compared to the next plunge when the US bond market implodes which can happen in a mere 24 hour period. McGraw-Hill will survive but at a skeleton of it's former self and it will be better for in in the long run. Get out now and buy MHP back when it is well south of $1.00.

vallence

01/22/11 2:52 PM

Post #14

“TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGING”
I just finished reading the article “The American student loan racket” and it really plays into what I have been saying about McGraw-Hill and the other text book publishers. The entire system is rigged to screw over and enslave the young foolish and naive youth of America. The system preys upon their pre-programed mentality that everyone should go to college regardless if the kid really wants to or if he/she has the basic IQ above that of a fence. My ex-wife was a professor of chemistry and writes for McGraw-Hill now and she use to say that the standard to get into college was if the student could fog up a mirror which meant they still had a pulse.

The education system has become America's youth worst enemy and that seems to be alright with every one as long as the money keeps flowing in. The Federal Government pumps billions into the student loan beast and like mindless drones both kids and their parents take the money so their little boy/girl can be just like everyone else, a slave to the government with no hope of ever getting out of it. The government hands out the permanently addictive drug(easy cash for college) and the other creatures like the universities and text book publishing companies take it from them at inflated prices and from that point the student is trapped.

I know first hand how corrupt and evil the slight of hand thieves can be for I was on the inside and married to one of them. I saw a once brilliant mind(my ex-wife Dr Julia Burdge) become totally corrupt to such an extent that her own son now 20 has not spoken or seen her since he was 16 because he sees her as a creature and no longer alive. This is what the wonderful world of Mcgraw-Hill Publishing has done for my family and all for money and greed and they are, along with other companies and colleges and universities destroying the youth of today.

I took my first chemistry class at the University of South Florida about 1979 and there was a professor there named Jesse Binford who wrote a very basic simplified text in black and white with no flashy pages in it and the book looked like something from the 1950's and it was such a good text that even the graduate students used it as reference. As I recall the text was not published from any big company and was done locally. Jesse Binford use to peddle his English fold up bicycle to the university every day to teach and I never saw him in a car. This is where higher education in the USA is heading for or better put “Back To The Future”, where professors are required to get of their ### and teach instead of using the mega flashy texts.

The government supplied the drug(money) and the parasites feed on the ballooning student population that should not have been in college(trade school would have been better) and doubled and tripled the size of text and even more so in price to allegedly accommodate those that need more flash and dash to understand the concepts that they will never use. One parasite after another feeding on the young and foolish and Mcgraw-Hill is one of them.

The parasitic extermination is about to happen and all the QE2 or QE3 or 4 will not stop it nor will anything stop the collapse of the university textbook empires. If you own McGraw-Hill get out now before their final collapse down and buy them back in 3-5 years when I do. Look at their 5 and 10 year stock chart and read http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and my other post on the message boards about them.

vallence

01/18/11 3:59 PM

Post #13

THE ABYSS

When you think about investing in Mcgraw-Hill, ask your self first who is going to buy their expensive
text books when the student money ends beginning in 2011. The graduating students today can not find work to even begin paying off all their student loans. The old way of hiding out at the university during economic down turns is not working because the economy is getting worse and will do so for many years and there will be no money for college and none for new text books.

It took 25 years for the DOW to regain the same leave it was prior to the crash of 1929 and the Greatest Depression this country in just entering will be even worse. There will be no need for McGraw-Hill's reporting agencies such as the Standard and Poors or JD Powers for no one will have any money to invest and the last thing they will want is more of the the same that got them into poverty in the first place with stock investments.

The game is over and in 2011 the American people are going to really know it. The last thing on their minds will be investing in publishing companies that will not regain their previous highs again for at least 25 years. Mcgraw-Hill is heading for the abyss and it will become painfully evident in 2011. Read my other post and get out now and buy the company back south of a $1.00 per share in about 5 years.

vallence

01/13/11 6:22 PM

Post #12

McGraw-Hill Gets Something Right For Once-They Can Be Taught.

For once McGraw-Hill does something right that can have a positive impact on students at a university by buying Tegrity's service which acts, in part, as a fully search-able digital video recorder for the classroom, enabling colleges and universities to automatically record every class for review by students anytime and anywhere. I spent years as a student at universities and also was married to a professor of chemistry at one and it is well past the time that the lectures should be recorded for viewing and also the accountability of professors actions and the quality of their lectures. This will make the tenured lazy professors get off their @$$ and begin to give students a decent lecture. This is a product well over due for the system and will cut down on the arrogance of professors who are over controlling and in many cases down right perverts in the USA university system. The USA university system unfortunately due to the tenured status of professors and upper management, become a haven for perverted behavior toward students (in private of course) because they know they can not be fired from their job. Like medical doctors in the USA the system is controlled buy the “good old boys” club mentality where they protect each other. Getting their lectures on video is a start to breaking this perverted behavior down.
This will not save McGraw-Hill from the coming crash in its stock price due to the imploding world economies and the company's own greed and mismanagement in diversification in other companies where it should not be. The days of the huge flashy and very expensive paper textbooks and their rip off authors is coming to an end. As stated in my website about McGraw-Hill the company will survive and it will go back to the basics, combined with modern technology that will end up saving it after the crash is over. The Tegrity service could be such an innovation I have described if it is managed correctly without the greed factor of the past. For a fuller view of this read my other post on the message boards and my free website, http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and sell MHP now if you own the stock and buy it back when I do some where south of $1.00 per share in 3-5 years when the collapse is complete.

vallence

01/12/11 6:04 PM

Post #11

NO, McGraw-Hill Dividends Will Not Last Forever
I just finished reading an article called “McGraw-Hill's Dividends May Not Last Forever” by Jordan DiPietro published on December 28, 2010 that made me laugh this morning. Starting the article with anticipation from the title that some one out there may be just looking out side the bubble world that is quickly popping right now. I was quickly let down as the title was a pure deception to get an investor believing that all is going well just as the Titanic hits the iceberg and that this ship is unsinkable so just go back to bed and ignore what is really going on. How naïve can a person be not to even mention the current world events better put, wolves at the door of McGraw-Hill and all the bloated pot belly publishers of college text books. No mention that the USA and world economies are in collapse, that the Federal Reserve is printing trillions of fake money in order to purchase US Treasury paper because the foreign governments will not buy the trash, that the USA economy is really in a economic depression covered up by the Fed's cheap printed money, that unemployment is really at the 22% level as per shadowstats.com and the Federal student loan campaign is nothing more than a scam to enslave generations of foolish young people and their even more foolish parents. Mcgraw-Hill and Jordon DiPietro the author are like the rich folks on the Titanic having whiskey and cigars, ignoring the rising water level. Mcgraw-Hill and the others may be steaming along at full speed now but it is only because the system is rigged and that is about to end. When the markets collapsed 2 years ago McGraw-Hill imploded from its all time high of about $72 to about $16 in a mater of months and the only thing that stopped it was the government Tarp bailout and the beginning of the trillions of dollars printed that has not yet been account for. The government pumped in trillions of their monopoly money into the markets and into student loans and dozens of other social welfare scams to keep the party going. Now all these graduating students with massive student loans are entering the job market and there are no jobs.
In a previous article I posted recently called, “Dump The Publishers Like McGraw-Hill” I tell the story of what is really happening and going to happen relating Mcgraw-Hills publishing division which is only about 17% of the total company(Please Read The Entire Article). Given in part “The number two prediction of the National Inflation Association top 10 predictions for 2011 is the the beginning of the bankruptcy of the American colleges. The article posted below explains what I have been saying for some time. The college and university system is as corrupt and wasteful as the Federal Government is. The publishing companies that supply the flashy text books at exorbitant prices which students are forced to buy, by demand of corrupt professors who may be the author or aspiring to be one are as guilty as the university system itself. The party is ending and publishing companies like McGraw-Hill who supply such text books are going to take the fall in the next few years. With the the rapid decline of the university population because of the imploding economy and soon to be shut down of the also corrupt student loan scam, there will be no need for more flashy text books. The older ones in the 4th or above additions will be used until the pages fall out and professors will have to actual get off their ass and learn to teach instead of being parasites.”
McGraw-Hill is a parasite like many companies of the consumerism years that is now ending with the collapse of the USA and will not be handing out dividends much longer. The party is over and the water is rising quickly on the deck of the Titanic and I would be buying a lifeboat of gold and silver bullion and their mining stocks instead of a corrupt industry of publishing stocks. Read all my article on the message boards for the real truth.

vallence

01/07/11 12:58 PM

Post #10

Dump The Publishers Like McGraw-Hill
The number two prediction of the National Inflation Association top 10 predictions for 2011 is the the beginning of the bankruptcy of the American colleges. The article posted below explains what I have been saying for some time. The college and university system is as corrupt and wasteful as the Federal Government is. The publishing companies that supply the flashy text books at exorbitant prices which students are forced to buy, by demand of corrupt professors who may be the author or aspiring to be one are as guilty as the university system itself. The party is ending and publishing companies like McGraw-Hill who supply such text books are going to take the fall in the next few years. With the the rapid decline of the university population because of the imploding economy and soon to be shut down of the also corrupt student loan scam, there will be no need for more flashy text books. The older ones in the 4th or above additions will be used until the pages fall out and professors will have to actual get off their ass and learn to teach instead of being parasites. Read my free website http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and sell McGraw-Hill now if you own it and buy it back south of $1.00 per share in 3-5 years from now. Read my other post about the company and corrupt system which is not just limited to Mcgraw-Hill.

2) Colleges will begin to go bankrupt and close their doors.

We have a college education bubble in America that was made possible by the U.S. government's willingness to give out cheap and easy student loans. With all of the technological advances that have been taking place worldwide, the cost for a college education in America should be getting cheaper. Instead, private four-year colleges have averaged 5.6% tuition inflation over the past six years.

College tuitions are the one thing in America that never declined in price during the panic of 2008. Despite collapsing stock market and Real Estate prices, college tuition costs surged to new highs as Americans instinctively sought to become better educated in order to better ride out and survive the economic crisis. Unfortunately, American students who overpaid for college educations are graduating and finding out that their degrees are worthless and no jobs are available for them. They would have been better off going straight into the work force and investing their money into gold and silver. That way, they would have real wealth today instead of debt and would already have valuable work place experience, which is much more important than any piece of paper.

Colleges and universities took on ambitious construction projects and built new libraries, gyms, and sporting venues, that added no value to the education of students. These projects were intended for the sole purpose of impressing students and their families. The administrators of these colleges knew that no matter how high tuitions rose, students would be able to simply borrow more from the government in order to pay them.

Americans today can purchase just about any type of good on Amazon.com, cheaper than they can find it in retail stores. This is because Amazon.com is a lot more efficient and doesn't have the overhead costs of brick and mortar retailers. NIA expects to see a new trend of Americans seeking to become educated cheaply over the Internet. There will be a huge drop off in demand for traditional college degrees. NIA expects to see many colleges default on their debts in 2011. These colleges will be forced to either downsize and educate students more cost effectively or close their doors for good.

vallence

01/07/11 12:55 PM

Post #9

What Is McGraw-Hill Thinking??????
I previously was under the impression that that McGraw-Hill had through it's Standard & Poor's financial division, new that the great experiment called the USA was over and that there was only the great fall into the hyperinflation abyss like the German Wiemar Republic of the early 1920's, compliments from the US Federal Reserve which itself is a private corporation and has nothing to do in legal terms with the US Federal Government(long sentence for you grammatically correct people).

It is true that there will be much more natural gas available because of the new formation fracture method in natural gas production and the demand will shift to it and away from oil and the world will be better for it. Mcgraw-Hill nor any other company or investor needs a lot data to wade through or purchase to figure this out. Just grab one of the unemployed rock licking geologist(I'm a geologist among many things) and ask him.

The days are soon coming to an end where massive amounts of data are needed to figure out what is about to happen, just look out your window for the real climate report and walk around any city for the financial report. McGraw-Hill just does not get it-that it took 25 years for the DOW to recover to it's previous highs after the Crash of 1929 and the one that is coming at us is going to be the Greatest Depression in history.

In the next 20 years, those that survive will not give a damn about tedious financial reports unless it is where they can get their next meal from. Given the fact that the governments financial information is totally corrupt and the Standard & Poors of McGraw-Hill was caught in a massive corruption scheme faking the real values, then who is going to believe anything that Platt's division is going to say and more important who will care? We know that natural gas will/is more plentiful and that yes the price will still go up regardless of the old supply and demand axiom because the game is rigid. What Mcgraw-Hill should be doing with their extra cash is buying natural gas and gold and silver and their good mining companies and storing this away for their survival.

I want Mcgraw-Hill to survive because I intend to buy it as a penny stock south of $1.00 in about 5 years when the world economic collapse has exhausted itself. Buying more junk to store in their garage already full of it is a sign of real sickness in those who run McGraw-Hill which even surprises me. This is not a condemnation of any company McGraw-Hill purchases but of Mcgraw-Hill itself for being such a materialistic collector when the age of materialism is over. They keep this up and I will have to down grade then to the sub-penny level for future purchase price. Read for free, http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and my other posting about this company on all the major message boards and other websites.

vallence

12/28/10 11:03 AM

Post #8

MHP The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc The publisher said its third-quarter profit totaled $390M, down from $452M in the same quarter a year before. As I have stated before in previous postings and in my website http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ that tells the McGraw-Hill story, the company is on the way down. If not for all QE 1 and QE 2 McGraw-Hill like many companies like it would be well on it's way down their death spiral. Their high of about $72 per share is a far cry from where they are now and the approximate $16 per share reach in the last two years would have been considered the good times if the Federal Reserve have not started printing their monopoly money and handing it out to Wall Street to keep the game going. The student loan scam hand outs are ending and will completely end in the next year once the US Dollar implodes like the German Mark did in 1921-22 in the Wiemar Republic collapse. University and college campuses will shrivel up like prunes and so will all service companies servicing them. Text book publishing companies like McGraw-Hill will be the hardest hit and so will the authors.

As I have said before, McGraw-Hill will survive but only after all the corruption and arrogance and greed is washed out of the company along with the authors that promote such a life style. The party is over now and all involved must face the hang over. There are many big companies like Mcgraw-Hill and only after they have it bottom and bounced along this bottom for years in the coming Greatest Depression will they begin their recovery. Watch their stock plunge again beginning in the Spring of 2011 and through the Summer. The final step off the edge of the great plunge will happen when hyper-inflation is in full force and the Dollar is dumped by governments around the world. Students will no longer need textbooks, only Tin Cups to eat at the soup kitchen and to use for begging for chance on the street.

McGraw-Hill will become a true penny stock again and you will be able to buy it at some where below $1.00 a share, 3-5 years from now. If you have doubts about this, just look at their 5 year chart and see how fast their stock plunge was from $72 per share. The only thing that halted it was the trillions of dollars dumped into the markets by they Federal Reserve in the QE 1 mass printing. Those days are quickly ending and so is McGraw-Hill's. If you own the stock now I would rush to sell it and buy it back when I do some where south of $1.00. Remember it took 25 years for the Dow stock average to recover to the same level it was just before the crash of 1929, will you live that long? You have been warned.

vallence

12/01/10 4:45 PM

Post #7

McGraw-Hill's time will soon come to an end to honor themselves in the coming market and currency collapse. The QE-2 easing by the Federal Reserve due to begin after the November 3, 2010 meeting will only expedite the collapse of the world financial system as other countries retaliate in devaluing their currencies. The end result in the USA will be a hyperinflation collapse within two years and of the magnitude of Wiemar Republic in Germany in the early 1920's. McGraw-Hill Companies and especially the higher educational text book divisions will implode on themselves because of the vanishing student population on college campuses world wide.

The free hand out of student loans, will be gone along with student grant money and even the social security money doled out. In an imploding economy with massive unemployment and hyperinflation there will be no money for education except for the limited few who's families planned ahead and saw this coming. College campuses will revert back to the way they were a 100 years ago where only the privileged will be there. Gone will be the days where you can get in to college and have loan or grant money as long as you can past the test of being able to fog up a mirror. As the students disappear so will the text books and their authors until the McGraw-Hill offices look the ghost towns of the old west with tumble weed blowing down the streets except in their case it will be unfinished text and new editions that will never happen. The colleges and university departments will reuse over and over again the proven text they have until the pages fall out of them. Even after the hyperinflation currency market and stock market collapses are over there will be years of the Greatest Depression in the history of the world that will have to be endured. Parents will be lucky to feed their children let alone send them to college.

The bloated obese days are ending where everyone believed they are entitled to go to college regardless of their ability. IT IS OVER PEOPLE. In the Great Depression of the 1930's college enrollment actually increased but that was when the USA was the largest creditor nation as apposed to now where it is the largest debtor nation. It was before there were college loans and grants handed out to a mass of morons who should never have even been considered for a college education that has bloated college campuses to resemble the fat American public. The colleges and universities are about to go on a starvation diet that will last for decades. So will the bloated fat publishing companies and their greedy authors expectations of million of dollar incomes.

The current run up in McGraw-Hill stock price like the rest of the NYSE and Nasdaq stocks is due directly to the QE-1 and the expectations of the QE-2 pumping of trillions of freshly printed dollars into the market. That time will end soon and so will the US dollar and so will McGraw-Hill as stated in the http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ website. The company will survive but it will shrink to a fraction of it's current size and so will it's stock price. Read http://fallofthehouseofmcgrawhill.com/ and sell your stock in it now and buy it back when I do somewhere south of a dollar per share.

MWM

09/24/09 10:57 PM

Post #6

Raters Face Fresh Push in House Over Claims
SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
By SERENA NG, SARAH N. LYNCH and LESLIE SCISM

Credit-ratings firms came under pressure as lawmakers and regulators renewed scrutiny of the ratings process.

A congressional committee called on Moody's Corp. to respond to allegations its Moody's Investors Service unit continues to inflate credit ratings. Meanwhile, state insurance regulators gathering in National Harbor, Md., grilled executives of major ratings firms about their botched analysis of mortgage bonds and discussed ways to pare ratings firms' role in assessing risk.

Moody's shares slid 4.4% on Thursday and have tumbled 28% this month amid scrutiny of the firm. Former Moody's analyst Eric Kolchinsky went public earlier this week with allegations that the firm knowingly gave inaccurate ratings to complex securities this year. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Thursday released a letter written by Mr. Kolchinsky detailing his complaints to Moody's officials.

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Document: Kolchinsky's memo to Moody's compliance officer A Moody's spokesman said the company "takes very seriously all allegations of impropriety," and a review into Mr. Kolchinsky's most recent claims is in process. The spokesman said Mr. Kolchinsky's previous claims were found by Moody's to be unsupported. "Moody's has strong policies in place to manage potential conflicts of interest," the spokesman said.

Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D., N.Y.) on Thursday postponed a scheduled hearing at which Mr. Kolchinsky was to testify, and said he wants Moody's to respond to the allegations.

Rep. Towns slated the new hearing for next Wednesday. The Moody's spokesman said the company "intends to continue the ongoing dialogue it maintains with legislators, regulators and other market participants."

In the 14-page letter released by the committee, Mr. Kolchinsky said Moody's engaged in conduct he believed was illegal and he urged the firm "to take action" to prevent the company from being held liable for its ratings.

In an interview Thursday, Mr. Kolchinsky said the tone of the August memo was out of character for him, but he was frustrated by what he felt was a lack of action within the company.

"The reason it was so harshly worded is that I really wanted them to act and do something, and not sit on their hands," he said, adding that he tried to get his message across for the past two years.

As his primary example, Mr. Kolchinsky said Moody's gave a high rating to complicated debt securities in January 2009, knowing that it was planning to downgrade assets that backed the securities. Within months, the securities were put on review for downgrade. He said he had reviewed internal Moody's memos that showed executives had approved ratings methodology changes in December 2008 that they expected to lead to large-scale ratings downgrades.

He also wrote that he fears that conflicts of interest, which arise because Moody's is paid by debt issuers to rate securities, have become worse in recent months. The group that rates complex securities takes "analytical short-cuts in their quest for revenue," he wrote.

Shares of McGraw-Hill Cos., owner of ratings firm Standard & Poor's, have tumbled 28% this month, falling 6.5% Thursday.

"It's clear to me we can no longer rely solely on the ratings agencies," Sean Dilweg, Wisconsin's insurance commissioner, said following the hearing of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners on Thursday in Maryland.

At the hearing, executives from Moody's, S&P and Fitch Ratings, which is owned by Fimalac SA of France, described changes they have made to improve their analytical processes, corporate governance and compliance.

"Everyone who testified knows that changes have to be made. It's just a question of what changes and to what extent," said James Wrynn, New York's insurance superintendent.

Write to Serena Ng at serena.ng@wsj.com and Leslie Scism at leslie.scism@wsj.com

MWM

09/24/09 12:09 PM

Post #5

MHP just lost $25...

MWM

09/24/09 9:57 AM

Post #4

MHP I added even more puts here, LOADED! I smell blood...

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The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. provides information services and products to the financial services, education, and business information markets worldwide. The company operates in three segments: McGraw-Hill Education, Financial Services, and Information & Media. The McGraw-Hill Education segment consists of School Education Group, which provides educational and professional development materials to pre-kindergarten to 12th grade market, as well as assessment and reporting services; and Higher Education, Professional, and International Group that provides e-books, online tutoring, customized course Web sites, subscription services, and materials to the higher education market, as well as professional, reference, and trade publishing for medical, business, engineering, and other fields. The Financial Services segment operates under the Standard & Poors brand, which provides investment research, market indices, credit ratings, financial data, and fixed income research and analysis to investors, corporations, governments, financial institutions, investment managers, and advisors. The Information & Media segment provides information, insight, and analysis solutions. This segment includes Business-to-Business Group, which offers BusinessWeek, a business magazine; J.D. Power and Associates, a global marketing information firm that conducts surveys of customer satisfaction, product quality, and buyer behavior; Platts, a source for energy-industry information and services; McGraw-Hill Construction, which connects people, projects, and products in the design and construction industry; and Aviation Week that provides multimedia information to the aviation and aerospace industry. Its Broadcasting Group operates nine television stations, four ABC affiliated and five Azteca America affiliated stations, which provide news and analysis, as well as offers online content. The company was founded in 1888 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

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