Barclays To Buy American

Barclays To Buy AmericanBarclays To Buy AmericanBarclays has been draining some long-range shots as of late It avoided the mess that many of its competitors drowned in during the past couple years, managed to pick up the good assets that the now-bankrupt Brothers Lehman left behind, and won the bidding to slap its name on that sure-to-be-an-eyesore-and-a-traffic-and-daily-commuter nightmare called the Barclays Center, whose groundbreaking ceremony is slated for this Thursday (full disclosure I live less than four blocks away from where Bruce and Jay-Z intend to start digging for gold).