Investment Bankers

Holiday Songfest: It's Another Ho-Ho-Horowitz Christmas!

Rick Horowitz | Posted 12.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Parody Songs, Mitch McConnell, Christmas Parodies, John Boehner, Investment Bankers, Balloon Boy, Olympia Snowe, Bankers, Congress, Holiday Songs, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Andy Warhol, Fame, Nobel Prize, Wall Street, Holiday Parodies, Bank Bailouts, Christmas Songs, Satire, Tiger Woods, Levi Johnston, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Celebrity, Health Care, Holiday Season, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

Jingle Bells // Sarah sells // Now she's got a book // Truth? Or lies? // While she tries and tries // To be worth a second look. // Oh, the weather outside is frightful // And the GOP is spiteful

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Rising Tide

Gershon Hepner | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gatsby, Geraldine Fabrikant, David Leonhardt, Super-Rich, Edward Lear, Investment Bankers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Business News
Gershon Hepner

We all prefer, like King Canute, to think we can control the tide, as we our treasury now loot, from reality to hide.

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Returning to the Scene of the Crime

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Securitization, Bond Market, Wall Street, Investment Bankers, Financial System, Larry Summers, Financial Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Systemic Risk, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Financial Regulation, Business News
Andrew Reinbach

We can expect a new wave of mortgage-backed bond defaults to hit the headlines any day now.

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From Lehman to Landscaping: A Laid-Off Banker, One Year Later

P.G. Sittenfeld | Posted 08.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Laid Off, Investment Banks, Lehman Brothers, Investment Bankers, Business News
P.G. Sittenfeld

After losing my job, I watched Lehman's stock price until the whole ship went under last fall. I needed a new source of income, so I moved to Dublin, Ohio to work for a lawn care company.

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Wall St. Unemployed Forced To Take Low-Wage Jobs

wsj.com | MARY PILON | Posted 07.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Wall Street, New York City, Investment Bankers, Wall Street Crisis, Financial Crisis, Bankers, Banking Industry, Business News

Carlos Araya used to order lobster, filet mignon and $200 bottles of red wine at the Palm Restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Now, he seats customers at...

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Bankers Balk at Fees

Tom Pappalardo | Posted 05.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, TARP Money, Douglas Leech, Investment Bankers, Frank Pallotta, Federal Reserve, Bankers, Timothy Geithner, Centra Bank, Tarp, Business News
Tom Pappalardo

Can you imagine being stuck on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean with these bankers and suddenly you get ill and need more water than what has been allotted to everyone?

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The Media Drops to Its Knees for Ex-Bankers

Rob Fishman | Posted 11.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Banker Profiles, Finance Journalism, David Webb, Investment Bankers, Bernard Madoff, Media, Business Media, Finance Industy, Media News
Rob Fishman

For so many years, financial types from Madoff down proclaimed to be doing something, when in fact they were doing nothing. And now that they're actually doing nothing, the media thinks that's something.

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Dating A Banker Anonymous: Finance Girlfriends Form Support Group

New York Times | RAVI SOMAIYA | Posted 02.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banker Girlfriends, Investment Banker Wives, Finance, Dating a Banker, Investment Bankers, Dating a Banker Anonymous, Business News

[Women] shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help wo...

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Reflections on Reconciliation: Paradox of Excess & Deprivation

Terry Leach | Posted 02.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Excess, Human Family, Safety Net, Barack Obama, Reconciliation, Us Airways Hudson River, U.S. Economy, US Airways Plane Crashes, Plane Crash Hudson River, Economy, Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger, Sully, Bankers, Airline Prices, Chesley B. Sully Sullenberger, Healthcare Workers, Hudson River Plane Crash, Great Depression, Sully Pilot Hero, US Airways, Money, Investment Bankers, US Airways Crash, US Airways Pilot, Pensions, Airline Industry, US Economy, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger III, Sully Plane Crash, Schools, Healthcare, Business News
Terry Leach

I wonder if Captain "Sully" Sullenberger's colleagues' pensions are secure. Somehow, I doubt it. Although airlines were the companies we used to loved to hate, airline employees are part of the family, too.

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A Forward Looking 5-Point Plan to End the Economic Crisis

Shafqat Khan | Posted 10.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Taxes, Treasury Department, White House, Investment Bankers, Economy, George W. Bush, Federal Reserve, Credit Crisis, Bankers, Housing Crisis, Wall Street Crisis, FInancial Markets, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Treasury, Banks, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary, Home News
Shafqat Khan

For too long the Democrats have surrendered the ground on taxes and free markets to the Republicans. Now is their chance to seize the initiative in these two areas with a simple 5-point plan.

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Bankers' Spouses Deprived Of Luxury Items During Downturn

New York Post | KRISTINA COOKE, CHELSEA EMERY | Posted 04.04.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Bankers Wives, Schadenfreude, Interior Designers, Luxury Items, Bear Stearns, Investment Bankers, Business News

From Wednesday's New York Post, with the oh-so-packed headline "Execs Bear-ly $urviving": Less than 48 hours after news broke that Bear Stearns & Co....

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Citigroup To Cut 2,000 More Jobs

New York TImes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Citigroup, Citigroup Layoffs, Job Cuts, Traders, Investment Banks, Investment Bankers, Business News

Citigroup plans to lay off another 2,000 investment bankers and traders before the end of the month, people close to the situation said on Wednesday. ...

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IBanker Convicted Of Insider Trading

Reuters Via NYT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading Charges, Hafiz Naseem, Insider Trading, Credit Suisse, Investment Bankers, Business News

A federal jury Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy. Prosecutors accused the banker, ...

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IBanker Convicted Of Insider Trading

Reuters Via NYT | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading Charges, Hafiz Naseem, Insider Trading, Credit Suisse, Investment Bankers, Business News

A federal jury Monday found a former Credit Suisse Group investment banker guilty of insider trading and conspiracy. Prosecutors accused the banker, ...

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Goldman Sachs Still Golden

AP | Joe Bel Bruno | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Investment Banks, Subprime Loans, Goldman Sachs, Investment Bankers, Subprime Mortgages, Business News

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. on Tuesday gave a cautious outlook for Wall Street in 2008 because of the ongoing credit crisis, even as the world's largest ...

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20 Years After "Bonfire," Rich White Bankers Still Rule NYC

The Guardian (U.K.) | Paul Harris | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Investment Bankers, Bonfire of the Vanities, New York City, Business News

Robert Thompson remembers vividly what happened when he opened The Bonfire of the Vanities, the chronicle of Eighties New York that captured the city ...

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