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Wall Street Reform: Taking a Knife to a Gunfight

Sanjay Sanghoee | Posted 05.24.2012

Sanjay Sanghoee

If Congress is truly serious about banking reform, it needs more than just well-intentioned laws: it also needs the right people to enforce those laws, it needs to give those people the resources they require to do their job properly, and it needs to pay them decently.

How JPMorgan Is Like Enron

Bloomberg View | Jonathan Weil | Posted 05.18.2012

Bloomberg View Put this one in the category of the famous quote often credited to Mark Twain: "History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." ...

A Business Student's New Required Reading

Rahilla Zafar | Posted 05.17.2012

Rahilla Zafar

How Will You Measure Your Life? shows readers how the same principles and theories of management used to examine companies can be applied to themselves.

Ex-Enron Trader Retires At 38 With Billions In The Bank

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 05.04.2012

Most of us would feel lucky to have the means to retire at 38. Now imagine retiring at that ripe old age with $3.5 billion in the bank. That's the...

Sex, Saints, Yogurt and World Peace: Bemoaning the Loss of Decorum

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 04.27.2012

Stuart Muszynski

Whether with baseball and steroids, basketball and greed, or football and "pay-to-injure," the stakes and competition of sports have outpaced classiness, noble intentions and decorum.

Supreme Court Rejects Enron Exec's Appeal To Overturn Criminal Conviction

Reuters | Posted 04.17.2012

* Appeals court ruled that any errors at trial were harmless * Supreme Court ruled in case in 2010 * Resentencing of Ski...

The Dumbest 'Bipartisan' Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.22.2012

Richard (RJ) Eskow

Once again the 'bipartisan' consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome regulations' that do nothing of value -- nothing, that is, except prevent catastrophes.

Breaking the Code of Omertà at Goldman Sachs

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.19.2012

Joseph A. Palermo

Greg Smith violated the ancient code of all mafia organizations: he spilled the game to the public. His former colleagues at Goldman Sachs no doubt now see him as a "rat."

Financial Sector Leads Brands With Plunging Reputations

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.13.2012

The U.S. economy may have exited 2011 on an upswing but it looks like the year left most Americans feeling worse about corporate America. Just 20 p...

Ex-MF Global CEO Reportedly Shopped For French Mansion During Firm's Collapse

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 01.05.2012

As MF Global inched towards collapse, CEO Jon Corzine pre-occupied himself with a few other things -- namely securing a chateau for him and his wife i...

Analysis: MF Global Collapse Proves Enron-Style Accounting Lives On

Posted 12.01.2011

The off-balance-sheet accounting methods that Enron and Lehman Brothers made famous in their epic failures years ago have a modern-day poster chil...

Cain Company Faced Embarrassing Episodes

AP | By RAY HENRY | Posted 11.21.2011

ATLANTA -- Republican Herman Cain served on the board of a Midwest utility company that paid $10.5 million to settle claims it failed to protect the r...

Top 5 White Collar Criminals Ever

Newsone.com | David Moye | Posted 01.13.2012

As the world's eyes turn to Wall Street as a source of financial distress, maybe its time to look at the corporate criminals who have decimated our fi...

The Fraud of Authentic Leadership

Elise Lelon | Posted 01.09.2012

Elise Lelon

Leaders who describe themselves as "authentic" are like sentences that start with, "To be honest." Whenever big cheeses proclaim "authentic leadership" as their effective guiding principle, chances are they're not so authentic, and they may not be effective or principled either.

The 5 Biggest Wall Street Scams of All Time

InvestingAnswers | Posted 12.06.2011

InvestingAnswers

There are only a few things you can count on in the world: death, taxes and Wall Street scams. Here are five of the biggest Wall Street scams of all time.

Business Leadership and Murdoch's Fatal Flaw

Brian Whetten | Posted 09.20.2011

Brian Whetten

When we see an executive featured in a corporate scandal, it's usually because they became addicted to success. And sooner or later, this addiction consumed them.

Why the Tea Party Is Wrong

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 09.04.2011

Jeff Schweitzer

We have developed an American myth about the magical efficiency of market forces and have deified entrepreneurs. We have developed a disdain for government as an obstacle to progress. Neither is entirely true or false.

Anthony Weiner Hands Republicans a Twofer

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.06.2011

Joseph A. Palermo

The wars drag on, the economy teeters, climate change unfolds just as the scientists predicted, and the yawning gap between the rich and the rest of us continues to grow. And what are we left with? The spectacle of a guy named Weiner doing naughty things.

Professor Koch's Psychopathy 101 Class

Chez Pazienza | Posted 07.12.2011

Chez Pazienza

A few years back, billionaire Charles Koch donated around $1.5 million to the FSU economics school in exchange for, well, control of the FSU economics school -- or at the very least the ability to decide which professors it hires.

Andrew Tavani

Madoff Chronicler Discusses The Mind Of America's Most Notorious Swindler

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Tavani | Posted 06.26.2011

This post has been corrected. Perhaps the only individual more qualified than veteran New York Times financial reporter Diana Henriques to write th...

Yepoka Yeebo

SEC May Make It Easier (For Some) To Buy Into The Next Facebook

HuffingtonPost.com | Yepoka Yeebo | Posted 06.11.2011

NEW YORK -- It may soon become a lot easier for startups to raise capital -- and avoid the regulatory scrutiny and costs associated with going public....

Blame Wall Street, Not Hard Working Americans, for the Pension Funds Fiasco

William S. Lerach | Posted 05.25.2011

William S. Lerach

What came from this era of de-regulation? Increased competitiveness, economic growth, wealth and prosperity? No -- instead we got repeated waves of financial fraud and wealth destruction.

John Taylor Skilling Dead: Jeff Skilling's Son's Body Found In Apartment

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A son of former Enron President Jeff Skilling has been found dead in his Southern California apartment. Santa Ana police Cp...

If You'll Do Anything for an "A," You'll Do Anything for Your Boss, Too

Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.25.2011

Margaret Heffernan

Our kids today are already surrounded by forces that encourage them to be compliant. The very last thing they need is parents who've taught them to be good soldiers.

Celebrating Ten Years of Derivatives Deregulation

Kevin Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Kevin Connor

In the compromised state of our political system, individuals like Larry Summers and Lee Sachs are ascendant and corporations secure legislation on the strength of powerful friends and bottomless pockets.