Analyst: Rating Agencies Don't Deserve Government Blessing
With federal lawmakers battling over a deal to give the U.S. government more borrowing authority, major credit rating agencies have lent a sense of ur...
With federal lawmakers battling over a deal to give the U.S. government more borrowing authority, major credit rating agencies have lent a sense of ur...
Posted 08.24.2011
NEW YORK (Matthew Goldstein) - In the fall of 2009, Deutsche Bank quietly fired one of its top derivative traders in London after a colleague in N...
The Huffington Post | William Alden | Posted 05.25.2011
Correction appended While some homeowners may be glad to challenge a foreclosure, the rapidly expanding crisis of alleged foreclosure fraud has sta...
Posted 05.25.2011
Financial expert Janet Tavakoli weighed in on the Securities Exchange Commission's fraud charges against Goldman Sachs Friday. Tavakoli told Katie C...
Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011
Wall Street's been a high-risk thrill ride for years, enriching for some but empty of deeper meaning and divorced from underlying value. The "flash crash" didn't break the market, but it did reveal fault lines.
Posted 05.25.2011
In a "60 Minutes" segment last night, Morley Safer interviewed a number of "pigeons" -- what con artists call their victims -- of prominent scams. Amo...
James Altucher | Posted 05.25.2011
I get it. People are angry at Goldman Sachs. But anger, particularly when misplaced, is not going to bring the economy back. Instead, how about we focus on making some money? Let's buy some stocks and enjoy the holidays.
Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011
Goldman Sachs wasn't the only contributor to the systemic risk that nearly toppled the global financial markets, but it was the key contributor to the systemic risk posed by AIG.
HuffingtonPost.com | William Alden | Posted 09.26.2011