Hedge funds may benefit from the federal government's bailout of AIG, the Wall Street Journal reports. That is because hedge funds made bets that the ...
Dave Astor | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy
At a time when financial bigwigs have made a mess of the U.S. economy, the deserved scorn heaped upon these greedy "masters of the universe" poses a problem for people with blue-blood monikers like mine.
Gregg Easterbrook | Posted 04.13.2009 | Business
Had most Madoff investors simply followed conventional financial theory about retirement, most would still have their money.
Bloomberg | Katherine Burton and Saijel Kishan | Posted 04.10.2009 | Business
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds may cut 20,000 workers worldwide this year, a record 14 percent of the industry's jobs, as investment losses and c...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 04.06.2009 | Business
Hedge funds have never been shy about getting their hands dirty, and so it goes with the latest unsavory money-making endeavor. Boston-based Highfield...
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business
Let's all try to be a little nicer to Chairman Bernanke who appears to be we earnestly bent on trying to save all our butts, blue and red alike.
Steve Parker | Posted 04.02.2009 | Business
To Alfred DiMora, designing, building and selling a $2 million limited-production super-exotic sedan seemed like a good enough idea in 2007.
Bloomberg | Jason Kelly and Katherine Burton | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
Feb. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Executives at buyout, venture-capital and hedge-fund firms will pay an estimated $24 billion more in taxes over nine years if P...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business
Back when it was good, you didn't understand it and it didn't matter; the numbers kept going up anyhow. The ones who knew, knew, and you were content to go along for the ride.
Portfolio | Gary Weiss | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business
In an era in which losers are universal and making a profit seems somehow shady, Paulson is the most conspicuous of Wall Street's winners. Paulson & C...
Penny Herscher | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
What is right and what is wrong in world of hedge funds?
Stephen Herrington | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business
Low incomes are what defines a Third World economy. High incomes are what power and define a First World, prosperous, economy.
AP | By RICK CALLAHAN and JENI O'MALLEY | Posted 02.13.2009 | Business
Scroll down for video UPDATE, 1/14/09, 1:59 PM CNN is reporting: Schrenker was found at a campsite near Quincy, Florida, with "deep cuts on his wr...
Diane Francis | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
The $50-billion fraud, allegedly perpetrated by New York's Bernie Madoff, is a predictable outcome following the collapse of a speculative bubble. Big bubbles attract bigger crooks.
Dan Solin | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business
The Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme is generally regarded as the biggest financial scam of all time. I don't agree.
Financial Times | Krishna Guha | Posted 01.20.2009 | Business
Hedge funds will be allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credi...
James Berman | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
Hedge fund are required to carefully investigate their potential investments. When a "fund-of-funds" farms its money out to another manager, a few simple questions are due diligence 101.
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business
Why would certain well-off clients and investors in the feeder funds (for example Switzerland's Union Bancaire Privee) not sue Madoff for his illegal ...
Dan Solin | Posted 01.13.2009 | Business
The difference between criminal conduct and business as usual in the securities industry is a fine line. Madoff clearly did not have the expertise he claimed. At some point, he stopped trying.
Daily Telegraph | Tom Leonard | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business
A prominent New York lawyer has been charged in a $100 million (£75 million) hedge fund fraud scheme in which he allegedly tricked his way into busin...
Alan Schram | Posted 03.26.2009 | Business
The Treasury's policy did nothing to build confidence or stabilize the markets. The precipitous drop of the equity markets in October and November are the market's judgment on their policies.
New York Times | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
On Thursday, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said he wants to see more hedge fund regulation as part of his proposal for creation of a new systemic r...
Michael Pento | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
In today's artificial and perverse global economy the best short term medicine for the ailing markets would be a weakening U.S. currency
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
This lack of balance is why we need more women involved in leading the world's economy. There is simply too much of a male-focused approach and it is not working!
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The nation's financial picture grew darker Thursday, a day marked by breathtaking numbers: a quarter-trillion-dollar budget deficit...
Huffington Post via WSJ | Julie Satow | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business