Hedge Fund

Parting Hedge Funder Andrew Lahde Writes Scathing Goodbye Missive

BloggingStocks | Zac Bissonnette | Posted 10.20.2008 | Business


A little less than a year ago I wrote about Andrew Lahde, a California-based hedge fund manager who earned his investors 1,000% on their money with hu...

CON GAMES: T. Boone's Doggle

Michael Conniff | Posted 08.19.2008 | Green


Michael Conniff

In the history of television advertising, has any private citizen ever ponyed up $50 million-plus for the greater good of the American people, with no strings attached?

Samuel Israel III, Convicted Hedge Fund Manager, Still Missing

New York Post | Perry Chiaramonte, Kaja Whitehouse and Dan Mangan | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business


June 11, 2008 -- A hedge-fund manager due to begin a 20-year prison stint for a $450 million fraud abandoned his SUV on a Hudson River bridge with "Su...

Republicans Stunned by Penniless Wisecracking Two-bit Preacher

Paul Jenkins | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics


Paul Jenkins

Mike Huckabee's not-so-improbable rise has stunned the Republican establishment and has his rivals exhibiting completely aberrant behavior.

Friday Talking Points [Vol. 7]

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics


Chris Weigant

It's been a busy week in Washington, providing lots and lots of fodder for this week's Friday Talking Points column. After being named last week's Mos...