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The Moral Compass Missing From The Greatest Trade Ever

David Fiderer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business


David Fiderer

As much as anything, what killed Lehman was Dick Fuld's emasculation of the risk management function, which served as a moral compass.

Would You Invest in a Zebra?

Loral Langemeier | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living


Loral Langemeier

There are two ways to invest: horses and zebras. Horses are obvious. Zebras are obscure. To my amazement, many investors choose to invest in zebras. Not me. I am in favor of horses.

Is Wall Street Full of Human CDOs?

Elise Coroneos | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business


Elise Coroneos

After the fiasco of the last year, the financial community should be getting back to the fundamentals of its job, which is to be stewards of the community's wealth.

Wall Street Is More of a Threat to Obama's Domestic Agenda than Afghanistan

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


Joseph A. Palermo

Whatever Obama decides to do in Afghanistan is of little consequence compared to Wall Street's ongoing "plutonomy."

What Have You Really Lost to the Recession?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business


Francine Hardaway

Well, we may think we've lost our jobs, our health insurance, our retirement plans, or our houses. But we haven't really "lost" those, because they were never really ours

Behind Wall Street's Collapse

Walden Bello | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business


Walden Bello

In a nutshell, the Wall Street meltdown is not only due to greed and to the lack of government regulation of a hyperactive sector.

Hank Paulson Should Call John Doerr

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business


Adam Hanft

More than Paulson, more than Bernanke, more than pretty much anyone in Washington I'd trust venture capitalist John Doerr to negotiate my stake in the bailout.

Brokers Suffered, While Customers Profited In 2007

New York Times | Floyd Norris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The brokers' customers did reasonably well. The brokers did not. That is not the usual way of Wall Street. Two-thirds of a century ago, a best seller...

Citi's Dividend Dilemma

BusinessWeek | David Bogoslaw | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Another day, another drubbing for Citigroup (C). The financial giant took yet another hammering from investors on Dec. 27 after Goldman Sachs (GS) boo...