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Conservatives Addicted to Big Oil

Bill Scher | Posted 06.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil Industry, Conservatives, Hedge Funds, Big Oil, Oil Prices, Oil, Filibuster, Oil Companies, GOP Senators, Green News
Bill Scher

Conservatives are protecting oil companies from having to compete with other energy producers on a level playing field, denying consumers a real choice for their energy needs.

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Making Money On Oil Without Buying Oil

Reuters | Jeremy Gaunt | Posted 06.19.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Speculation, Hedge Funds Oil, Commodities Speculation, Buying Oil Infrastructure, Hedge Funds, Buying Oil, Business News

LONDON (Reuters) - A story is told in financial circles that it was not the miners of the California Gold Rush who made money, it was the people who s...

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Suicide?: Disgraced Hedge Fund Trader Samuel Israel III Missing

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business

Read More: Fraud, Hedge Fund Traders, White Collar Crime, Hedge Funds, Bayou Hedge Fund, Suicide, Convicted Trader, Samuel Israel III, Business News

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge...

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Warren Buffett Bets $320K That Management Fees Are Crap

NYT | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Managers, Unnecessary Management Fees, Warren Buffett, S&P 500, Warren Buffet, Business News

Warren Buffett, a longtime critic of the fees charged by some money managers, has put his own cash on the line -- or, at least, a small chunk of it --...

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Chelsea in 2016? Just a Minute! What About Hillary?

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Chelsea in 2016, Mckinsey, Marc Lasry, Chelsea Clinton, 2016 Election, Hedge Funds, Bill Clinton's Influence on Hillary's Popularity, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

Chelsea may have to wait to run for President until her mother has given up on the dream of sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office and resigned herself to being a power in the Senate.

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Obama and the Hedge Fund Factor

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Donors, Hedge Funds, Obama, Wall Street, Business News

If you were a member of the Wall Street aristocracy, one of those hedge fund hot shots who makes half a billion dollars a year, which horse would you ...

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Hedge-Fund Managers Score Biggest Ever Payday

Posted 04.24.2008 | Business

Read More: John Griffin, Stephen Mandel Jr, Steven Cohen, Kenneth Griffin, Hedge Fund Salaries, Hedge Funds, Timothy Barakett, Hedge Fund Managers Salaries, George Soros, Hedge Fund Managers, O. Andreas Halvorsen, Alpha Magazine, James Simons, Philip Falcome, Business News

It's a good day to be a hedge fund manager. Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine has just released it's annual ranking of top hedge funds earners...

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Hedge Fund Managers See Billion-Dollar Paydays

New York Times | JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Money, John Paulson, Hedge Funds, George Soros, Business News

Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, e...

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Why Hedge Funds Are Losing Money In Today's Market

Portfolio | Felix Salmon | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business

Read More: U.S. Economy, Volatile Markets, Hedge Funds, Equity Allocation, Hedge Fund Volatility, Business News

Insight from Baruch: The strategists at my beloved employer told the punters, correctly, that this year would see a lot of volatility in equities...

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Paulson's Plan In A Nutshell

New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Sec, Hank Paulson, Federal Watch, Private Equity Firms, Henry Paulson, Hedge Funds, S.E.C., Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Financial Crisis, Business News

The NYT reports: The Bush administration on Monday rolled out the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting...

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Should You Avoid Jim Cramer?

ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 04.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Cnbc, Fox Business Channel, Millionaires, Hedge Funds, Bear Stearns, Mad Money, Jim Cramer Bear Stearns, Jim Cramer Advice, Jim Cramer, Boo-Yah, Business News

He might be the most-celebrated stock-picker on TV, but many say Jim Cramer got it wrong and some have renewed an older criticism of the television ho...

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Select Investors Win Big On Bear's Downfall

Wall Street Journal | GREGORY ZUCKERMAN, JENNY STRASBURG and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, Wall Street Investors, Joseph Lewis, Greenlight Capital, Bear Stearns, Hedge Funds, Tremblant Capital Group, Harbinger Capital Partners, Paulson & Co, Business News

The collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. dealt a severe blow to investors, from big names like billionaire Joseph Lewis to thousands of employees of the brok...

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Why is Bear Stearns Trading Above Deal Price?

David Neubert | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: The Panelist, Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan, Bear Stearns, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Traders, Bear Stearns Preferred Stock, Business News
David Neubert

I've been getting the inside scoop from some hedgefund traders (who always request to remain anonymous).

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Business To Security Analysts: Shut UP

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Bank Write Downs, Citigroup, Chuck Prince, Corporate Sanity, Credit Suisse, Business Stories of the Year, BS, Security Analysts, Character Issue, Excessive Exit Packages, Debt, Hedge Funds, Bear Stearns, Bogus Dudes, Depression, Self-Inflicted Injuries, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I've been in business for about 5,427 dog years and at no time during my career has there ever been a day when somebody wasn't worried about what some security analyst was writing about us.

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Terrorists On Wall Street

Harry Fuller | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: George Bush, Financial Gurus, U.S. Economy, Sec, Finance, Fraud, Bonuses, Society Security, 401ks, S&L, Federal Reserve, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Regulation, 401(K), Harvard Business School, MBAs, Financial Corporations, Financial Bonuses, Federal Money Brokers, Bear Stearns, Bankruptcy, Brokerages, Business News
Harry Fuller

This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.

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Big Hedge Funds, Led By JP Morgan, Grow By 30 Percent

Financial Times | Anuj Gangahar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Arbitrage, JP Morgan, Hedge Funds, Highbridge Capital, Absolute Return, Business News

Assets at the largest US hedge funds grew by more than a third last year, even though three of the 10 largest funds lost a combined $24bn in assets th...

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Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America"

National Review | Byron York | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Philanthropy, Hedge Funds, Michelle Obama, Corporate Law, Hedge Fund Management, Business News

I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According ...

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Hedge Funds Buy Up NYT Shares

New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: NYT Shares, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Firebrand Partners, New York Times, Sec, Hedge Funds, NYT Stock, Harbinger Capital Partners, Business News

Harbinger Capital Partners is tightening its grip on the New York Times and Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. The investment firm yesterday rais...

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Alan Greenspan Joins Hedge Fund

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: John Paulson, John Snow, Greenspan Hedge Fund, Federal Reserve, D.E. Shaw, Hedge Funds, Alan Greenspan, Lawrence Summers, Cerberus, Business News

Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who earned billions of dollars last year by betting against the housing market, said on Tuesday that former Federal R...

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Know Your Hedge-Fundese

New York | Daily Intelligencer | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: N+1, Hedge Funds, Hedge-Fund Managers, Secret Language of Money, Business News

Hedge-fund managers use a lot of lingo. The reason they do this is to trick you into thinking what they do is really complicated, and you are too dumb...

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Start-Up Blows Through $300 Million In VC Cash

Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Hedge Funds, Ron Burkle, Venture Capitalists, Pay by Touch, Business News

The start-up Pay by Touch seemed close to a sure thing, with its futuristic approach to speeding shoppers through checkout lines while protecting thei...

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Probe Into Hedge Funders Death Reveals Sordid World Of Sex, Cocaine, And Male Go-Go Dancers

New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Hedger Funders, Cnbc, Hedge Funds, Seth Tobias Murder, Seth Tobais, Murdered Hedge Funder, Filomena Tobias, Kudlow & Company, Business News

A life of private jets and black-tie balls ended with Seth Tobias, a wealthy investment manager and a familiar presence on CNBC, floating face down in...

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Stripper-Obsessed Hedge Funder Faces Jail Time For Using Creditors' Cash To Pay Personal Expenses

Globe And Mail | Paul Waldie | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Canadian Hedge Funds, Paul Eustace, Hedge Funds, Philadelphia Alternative Asset Management, Business News

Canada's hedge fund industry has its share of rogues, but few are as colourful as Paul Eustace. By his own admission in a deposition filed in court, ...

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Hedge-Funder Neiderhoffer: "The Worst Mistake In This Business Is To Be In Over Your Head"

New Yorker | John Cassidy | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Victor Niederhoffer, Manchester Trading, Hedge Funds, Business News

On a wall opposite Victor Niederhoffer's desk is a large painting of the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship that sank in the South Pacific in 1820, after...

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In Dash For Cash, More Young People Skip B-School

The New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Hedge Funds, MBA, Business School, Wealth, Wall Street, Home News

Most people who knew Gabriel Hammond at Johns Hopkins in the late 1990s could have predicted he would rise quickly on Wall Street. As a freshman, he t...

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