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As 2009 quickly approaches, let me first wish you a very Happy New Year!

The Bernie Madoff scandal reminds me of the important role trust plays in negotiating. As I have written before, trust is hard to build and easy to destroy.

Many lessons can be learned from the negotiation over the potential bailout of the U.S. automakers. Here are three.

"I've got this thing, and it's (expletive) golden... and I'm just not giving it up for (expletive) nothing. I'm not gonna do it." This quote, from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich

The New York Times reported this week that at least three groups submitted offers to the Tribune Company on Monday in the latest round of bidding to purchase the Chicago Cubs baseball team.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, recently settled a case in which Sheik Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the second son of the king of Bahrain, had sued him for breach of contract.

"Bailout Flips Confuse Market," read the Arizona Republic headline this week in describing the U.S. Treasury Department's "scattershot" efforts to stabilize our economy.

Last Friday's Washington Post included a list from Carnegie Mellon Professor Linda Babcock contrasting salary negotiation differences between men and women.

President-elect Barack Obama's job interview with the American public is over. And now the pundits are analyzing how and why he won.

"We've had some negotiation training and many of our employees are experienced negotiators.