SEC No Evil: Cox Undermined And Demoralized Enforcement Staff
For months, Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been under fire for a belated response to market upheavals st...
For months, Christopher Cox, the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been under fire for a belated response to market upheavals st...
Vanity Fair | Christopher Hitchens | Posted 10.09.2008 | Business
But still, the chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize thei...
New York Times | STEPHEN LABATON | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business
The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, a longtime proponent of deregulation, acknowledged on Friday that failures in a voluntary supe...
Reuters | Posted 09.26.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is ending its program to supervise large independent investment banks now that the ...
Lauren Kirchner | Posted 09.24.2008 | Business

DealBook | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business
Andrew M. Cuomo, the attorney general of New York State, has been getting a lot of attention on Wall Street lately, making comments that liken short-s...
AP | JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 09.23.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Refusing to be pushed, Republicans and Democrats alike rebuffed dire warnings Tuesday from the government's top economic officials ...
Jan Herman | Posted 09.22.2008 | Media
Before it's too late, three cheers for the lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal on Friday, "McCain's Scapegoat," which calls McCain "untethered," as well as misinformed and dishonest.
Steven Denlinger | Posted 09.20.2008 | Home
Imagine this situation: Russia attacks America, and in order to teach the world what happens when you try attacking America's Mighty Might, we attack...
AP | MARCY GORDON and STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 09.19.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The government's unprecedented move Friday to ban people from betting against financial stocks might be a salve for the market's tu...
SEC | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business
The following is a statement released by SEC Chairman Christopher Cox in response to Sen. John McCain saying earlier today on the campaign trail that ...
ABC | Posted 09.18.2008 | Politics
ABC News' David Wright reports: At a joint rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa Thursday, Republican John McCain slammed the Security and Exchange Commission (...
AP | GLEN JOHNSON | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Republican John McCain, buffeted by criticism about his response to Wall Street's financial problems, said Thursday he woul...
AP | RICHARD JACOBSEN | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business
Federal regulators on Tuesday extended through mid-August a temporary order banning a certain kind of short-selling of the stocks of mortgage finance ...
DealBook | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business
In some corners of Wall Street and Washington, short sellers have become about as unpopular as Red Sox fans at Yankee Stadium. Short sellers, who bet...
John Tepper Marlin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Senator McCain's approach to the credit crisis was today described by the LA Times as "dubious". He was speaking In Santa Ana, Orange County - home co...
New York Post | PAUL THARP and ZACHERY KOUWE | Posted 03.24.2008 | Business
From today's New York Post: Anger has reverberated all week throughout the gloomy Madison Avenue offices, where dethroned chief Jimmy Cayne has walke...
Sunil Chacko | Posted 01.02.2008 | Business
Today, the world's sovereign wealth funds are significantly larger than all of the world's hedge funds combined.
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Portfolio | Posted 10.14.2008 | Home