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Media Maneuvers

Why Fortune Loves Charlie Rose

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 10.06.2009 | Media

Read More: John Doerr, Charlie Rose, Jim Lehrer, Katie Couric, Media Maneuvers, Tom Perkins, Larry Summers, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Warren Buffett, Paul Krugman, Fortune, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

A new profile of Charlie Rose is representative of a trend that seems to be growing: the sort of meta-, multi-platform story that has so many odd conflicts and strange connections that it makes you dizzy.

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Sorkin On What Happened After Lehman

Robert Teitelman | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Enron, Geithner, Business, Wachovia, Great Panic of 2008, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Media Maneuvers, Investment Bank, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Robert Teitelman, Ben Bernanke, Tarp, Timothy, Business News
Robert Teitelman

New York Times' reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's excerpt microscopically examines the actions of some key regulatory and Wall Street players, in this case during the period immediately after Lehman failed.

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Lehman Brothers' Nonlessons

Robert Teitelman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Great Panic of 2008, David Wessel, Crisis Books, Robert Teitelman, Great Recession, Lehman Brothers, Media Maneuvers, Business News
Robert Teitelman

The real lesson of the Lehman meltdown and failure may turn out to be that it was not a deep enough shock to change a political and economic system that seems to require liquidity-driven growth.

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The WSJ Tries to Fix Our Mistakes

Robert Teitelman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Insider Trading, Wall Street, Economy, Media Maneuvers, Mistakes, Behavioral Finance, Personal Finance, Robert Teitelman, Business, Wall Street Journal, Risk, Business News
Robert Teitelman

Were we crazy to believe, or at least fear, that we were heading into a depression in December?

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Carping

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 07.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Blogs, Time, Time Warner, Media, Thoreau, Recession, Media Maneuvers, Cheapskate, Media News
Yvette Kantrow

Maybe it's just me, but I'm getting tired of the media telling me what I need and don't need. Time's Cheapskate blog is just the latest manifestation of this trend

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