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Financial Engineering

Le Monde, the Arts, Our Presidential Politics

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.20.2012 | Politics
Read More: Arts, France, Mitt Romney, National Edowment for the Arts, Le Monde, Media, Financial Engineering, Culture, Le Huffington Post, Politics News
Raymond J. Learsy

It was an especially instructive moment to recently find in Le Monde an issue rarely touched upon by our media, and sadly, rarely an issue touched upon in our elective process: the nature of government's responsibility and support for the arts.

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Frankenstein, Return of the Zombies: The Sequel

Lydia Fisher | Posted 10.11.2011 | Business
Read More: Foreclosures, Unemployment, Federal Budget Deficit, Financial Engineering, Cinderella of Wall Street, Federal Reserve, Financial Crisis, Globalization, Global Financial System, Global Financial Crisis, Job Crisis, Lydia Fisher, Business Ethics, Business News
Lydia Fisher

Frankenstein was a "failed artificial life experiment" that went badly wrong. Ours incubated in financial laboratories -- the result of complex "innovative" financial engineering.

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Why Can't the SEC Crack Financial Cases? The Peace Corps?

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Complex Structured Transactions, Sec, David Kotz, Aig, Inspector General of the SEC, Peace Corps, Flash Trading, Financial Engineering, Complex Derivatives, Financial Crimes, Securities and Exchange Commission, A Shot in the Dark, Business News
Iris Mack

Who knew that working as a lawyer for the Peace Corps was a stepping-stone to becoming the Inspector General of the Securities and Exchange Commission?

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Group-think Caused the Market to Fail

Stan Sorscher | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Financial Crisis, Invisible Hand, Group-Think, Externalities, Market Failure, Financial Engineering, Business News
Stan Sorscher

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

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Bury Our Banks in Style!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: New Orleans, Finance Bloggers, Dr. Paul Wilmott, Bank Failures, TSTB Banks, Sweet Freedom, Bank Regulations, Too Big to Fail, Move Your Money Campaign, TBTF Banks, Larry Summers, Repealed, Wall Street Journal, Jazz Funerals, Fdic, Jazz, Financial TImes, Too Small to Bailout, Glass-Steagall Act, Secondline Dance, Bob Rubin, Finance, Correct Predictions, Economy, CQF Blog, Trading, London, Dr. Emanuel Derman, Dr. Satyajit Das, Certificate of Quantitative Finance Programme, Financial Engineering, Derivatives, Dr. Nassim Taleb, Cqf, Global Economic Recession, The Warning, Pbs, Brooksley Born, Consumer Finance Protection, Casinos, Congress, Frontline, wilmott.com, cqf.com, Business News
Iris Mack

How can we bury the Too Small To Bailout banks in style? Here are a few suggestions.

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