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Brad Pitt, Orchids and the Oakland Athletics

Olga Crosse | Posted 05.07.2012

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Olga Crosse

I settled down last recently with a giant bag of Doritos, a lovely glass of wine and the DVD Moneyball, a true story about Oakland baseball team's man...

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Wall Street's Arrogance Led To Financial Collapse, Documents Show

Bloomberg View | William D. Cohan | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Video, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, Mortgage Loans, Bear Stearns, Hedge Fund, Jenner & Block LLP, Lehman-Brothers, Dick Fuld, Citigroup, Business News

Bloomberg View: If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package...

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An October Surprise on Wall Street

Charles Gasparino | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs, Jon Corzine, Lehman Brothers, MF Global, Financial Crisis, Securities and Exchange Commission, Wall Street, Dick Fuld, Business News
Charles Gasparino

Coming this fall, as President Obama makes his final push for a second term, his Justice Department will finally give the public what it wants in the form of an arrest of a major Wall Street figure for his role in the financial crisis.

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'Megalomania, Insanity, And Evil' Caused Housing Bubble: Berkshire Exec

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Coca-Cola, Elizabeth Warren, Lehman Brothers, Wesco Financial, Richard Fuld, Warren Buffett, Alan Greenspan, CHarles Munger, Housing Bubble, Dick Fuld, Business News

Charles Munger, the always-quotable vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, wasn’t mincing words on Friday. “The bubble in America was caused by s...

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PHOTOS: Billy Crudup As Geithner?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hank Paulson, Too Big to Fail Cast, Barney Frank, Billy Crudup, John Mack, Dick Fuld, James Woods, HBO Too Big to Fail, Tim Geithner, Tony Shaloub, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Slidepollajax, Business News

An HBO movie about the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has drawn an all-star cast, the Hollywood Reporter notes. Slated to appear ...

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Seven Villians Of The Financial Crisis: Where Are They Now?

DailyFinance | BRUCE WATSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, Fabrice Tourre, John Thain, Bear Sterns, Countrywide, Ken Lewis, Lehman Brothers, Merril Lynch Bonuses, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Angelo Mozilo, Jimmy Cayne, Dick Fuld, Business News

In 2008, as the economy seemed to be in free-fall, pundits, politicians and the public cast about in search of the ultimate villain, the Wall Street w...

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Government Denied Lehman, But Bailed Out Other Wall Street Firms, Fuld Says

Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP, By Marcy Gordon) -- Federal bank regulators on Wednesday defended their actions leading up to the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ...

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Lehman Probe Focuses On Emails That Say 'Stupid'

BusinessWeek | Linda Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lehman Brothers, Erin Callan, Richard Fuld, Lehman Probe, Dick Fuld, Lehman Lawusit, Anton Valukas, Repo 105, Lehman Fraud, Business News

June 11 (Bloomberg) -- "Just between us," it may be "stupid" to use certain words in e-mail to "discuss" the "big trouble" you might face if you're ev...

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Repo 105, Lehman Brothers, Archstone-Smith Real Estate Investment Trust, Anton Valukas, Dick Fuld, Ernst & Young, Business News
DK Matai

Editor's Note: This post has been removed from the Huffington Post....

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Goldman Sachs in Troubled Waters

Georges Ugeux | Posted 05.25.2011

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Georges Ugeux

Wall Street has long forgotten how to spell "ethical" or "good," and replaced it with "compliant" and "legal." The time has come to explain to investment banks what their responsibility and accountability are.

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Richard Fuld, Former Lehman CEO, Dodges Questions On Why Bank Failed (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy and Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011

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In a maddening exchange today between former Lehman Brothers CEO Richard Fuld and Rep. Paul Kanjorski (D - PA.) in front of the House Financial Servic...

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Dick Fuld: Former Lehman CEO Claims 'No Recollection' Of Accounting Fraud

AP | ALAN ZIBEL and JEANNINE AVERSA | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The former chief executive of Lehman Brothers said he has "absolutely no recollection whatsoever" about an accounting maneuver that...

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Senior Goldman Exec Is Married to Former Head of ACA

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Devil's Casino, Alan S. Rosenman, Goldman Sachs, Aca, Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers, Business News
Vicky Ward

A source told me to check out who the head of ACA was married to. "I think you'll find it's a senior woman at Goldman Sachs," he said.

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Executive Compensation: A Critique

Alexander Dresner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: J.P. Morgan, Dan Ariely, Dick Fuld, Lehman Brothers, Executive Compensation, Barney Frank, Business News
Alexander Dresner

In 1890, J.P. Morgan pulled in close to 20 times what his employees did annually. Today, CEOs earn more in three hours than minimum wage workers do in a year. This imbalance is both irresponsible and irrational.

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How Lehman's Hidden Inner Circle Brought the Bank Down

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vicky Ward

The SEC and FED were inside Lehman Brothers for the last six months of its life. How did they miss all this?

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Casting 'Too Big To Fail': Which Celebs Should Appear In The Movie Of The Financial Crisis? (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy and Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Wallace Shawn, John Thain, Too Big to Fail, Casting Too Big to Fail, John Mack, Robert DeNiro, Dick Fuld, Stephen Colbert, Ken Lewis, Tim Geithner, Erin Callan, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Henry Paulson, Ben Bernanke, Slidepollajax, Business News

It was just a matter of time before Hollywood got its hooks into the financial crisis. HBO recently announced that it had bought the rights to And...

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Regulation Has To Come From Within

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vicky Ward, Matthew Lee, Ernst and Young, Devil's Casino, Lehman Brothres, Federal Reserve, Dick Fuld, Anton Valukas, David Goldfarb, Mike Gelband, Archstone-Smith, Business News
Vicky Ward

Does more regulation stop human urges like the excess at Lehman Brothers? You can try, as D.C. is trying now. But in the end, the only person who can stop ambition turning into something insidious is you.

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Dodd Calls For Probe Into Lehman Accounting

Posted 05.25.2011

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In a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Chris Dodd (D - Conn.), the chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, called for an investigation in...

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Dick Fuld, ex-Lehman Brothers CEO

nypost.com | MARK DeCAMBRE | Posted 05.25.2011

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He may be one of the most vilified men coming out of the financial crisis, but ex-Lehman Brothers boss Dick Fuld is feeling vindicated in the wake of ...

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Lehman Scandal: Former Execs 'Shrug' At $50B Accounting Trick Wasn't A Big Deal, Fuld Says He's Vindicated

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Welcome to the Bizarro World of former Lehman Brothers executives. If you can believe it, some ex-Lehman executives are actually claiming that the...

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Brad Hintz, Former Lehman CFO: Firm's Accounting Practices Filled With 'Shenanigans' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Repo 105, Repurchase Agreements, Lehman Brothers, Brad Hintz, Financial Crisis, Repo, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Dick Fuld, Video, Business News

In an interview with Bloomberg Television this morning, former Lehman Brothers CFO Brad Hintz condemned the firm's executives for camouflaging its bal...

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Lehman Bankrutpcy: 'Repo 105,' Bank's 'Accounting Gimick,' Was Like 'A Drug,' Emails Show

Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 05.25.2011

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** UPDATE: Scroll down to see Dylan Ratigan's segment ** The arcane "accounting gimmick" employed by Lehman Brothers as the firm failed in 2007 and...

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Why Did Lehman Behave So Idiotically?

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vicky Ward

Lehman was so rotten at the top, so corrupt, so unwilling to tolerate dissension, and Dick Fuld and Joe Gregory so obsessed with clinging to their seats, that eventually, housing bubble or not, it would have failed.

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Former Lehman Women React to "Doozie" of a Story

Vicky Ward | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vicky Ward

In response to my article in this month's Vanity Fair, hundreds (literally) of Lehman's former women executives anxiously listened into a conference phone call about the story.

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Lehman Brothers' Wives Exposed In New Book

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Kathy Fuld, Vicky Ward, Niki Gregory, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Dick Fuld, The Devils Casino, Joe Gregory, New York News

If you thought the spending habits of Wall Street bigwigs was bad, wait until you hear about their wives. In her new book "The Devil's Casino", Vicky...

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