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The Moral Compass Missing From The Greatest Trade Ever

David Fiderer | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Subprime Mortgage Market, Goldman Sachs, Cdos, Wall Street Crisis, Subprime Mortgages, John Paulson, Hedge Funds, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Hedge Fund Managers, Bear Stearns, Credit Default Swaps, Wall Street Journal, Dick Fuld, Business News
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.

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Would You Invest in a Zebra?

Loral Langemeier | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Investing, Transparency, Direct Investing, Cdos, Horses, Zebra, Living News
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.

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Is Wall Street Full of Human CDOs?

Elise Coroneos | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Cdos, Wall Street, Derivatives, Financial Crisis, Banks, Human Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Cdo, Business News
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.

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

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.20.2009 | World

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Bill Clinton, Pecora Commission, Treasury Department, Sec, Joseph P. Kennedy, President Barack Obama, Cdos, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Larry Summers, Federal Reserve, Credit Default Swaps, Newt Gingrich, Fdr, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Vice President Dick Cheney, Afghanistan, Timothy Geithner, Bear Stearns, Lyndon Johnson, Alan Greenspan, Securities and Exchange Commission, Too Big to Fail, President George W. Bush, Blue Dog Democrats, World News
Joseph A. Palermo

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

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What Have You Really Lost to the Recession?

Francine Hardaway | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, David Faber, Lobbyists, Cdos, Bill Moyers, Economic Crisis, Recession, Business News
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

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Behind Wall Street's Collapse

Walden Bello | Posted 11.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Bailout, Wall Street, Rosa Luxemberg, Cdos, Wall Street Bailout, International Monetary Fund, Argentina, Reaganism, Collatorized Debt Obligations, International Financing Review, Klaus Schwab, Internet Bubble, Imf, Stock Market, Dean Baker, Great Depression, World Economic Forum, Financialization, Technology-Stock Bubble, Economic Bubble, Bankruptcy, Golden Age of Contemporary Capitalism, Brazil, Fannie Mae, U.S. Treasury Department, Recession, Financial Collapse, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Ben Bernanke, Neoliberal Restructuring, China, Business News
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.

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Hank Paulson Should Call John Doerr

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.25.2008 | Business

Read More: Government, Mortgages, Paulson, Bailout, Equity Positions, Equity, Economy, Cdos, Bernanke, Credit Default Swaps, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Subprime, Free Market, Liquidity Crisis, Google, Doerr, Business News
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.

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Brokers Suffered, While Customers Profited In 2007

New York Times | Floyd Norris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Sivs, Wall Street, Brokers, Cdos, Mbs, Business News

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...

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Citi's Dividend Dilemma

BusinessWeek | David Bogoslaw | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, William Tanona, Citi Writedowns, Citi Investors, Citi's Asset Writedowns, Write-Offs, Cdos, Business News

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

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