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Derivatives Reform: 'Tricky Exceptions' Leave Market Unchecked: The Nation

thenation.com | William Greider | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Economy, Derivatives, Barney Frank, Bank of America, Regulatory Reform, Obama Administration, Derivatives Trading, Financial Regulation, House Financial Services Committee, Citigroup, Transparency, Business News

The Obama administration promised to reform the financial system and make it safe for the rest of us, but recent Congressional action is more likely t...

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Of Billionaires, Bailouts and Bonuses

Les Leopold | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Financial Crisis, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street Crisis, Great Depression, Bailouts, Business News

Let's weigh the pros and cons of the record bonuses going to Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley (and many others) during the worst economic crash since 1929.

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Wall Street Bonuses At Big Three Banks May Be Up 60% From Last Year

bloomberg.com | Michael J. Moore and Ian Katz | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, CEO Pay, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Financial Reform, Banks, Big Three Banks, Bank Bonuses, Wall Street Pay, Wall Street Bonuses, Business News

Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis sin...

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Wall Street's Record Bonuses Return: Analysts Predict $30 Billion In Bonuses At Big 3

Bloomberg | Michael J. Moore and Ian Katz | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s investment bank, survivors of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depressio...

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To Create Jobs on Main Street, We Need to Kill Jobs on Wall Street

Les Leopold | Posted 11.07.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Unemployment, Bailout, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Barack Obama, Business News

The Billionaire Bailout Society is not a shared society. We're not in it together. What's good for Wall Street is not good for the rest of us...they even get their swine flu shots before we do.

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New "Too Big To Fail" Bill Gives Feds Power To Freeze Derivatives Contracts

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Derivatives, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Aig, Credit Default Swaps, Michael Krimminger, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Tbtf, Lehman Brothers, Isda, Financial Crisis, Systemic Risk Regulator, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Systemic Risk, Business News

The "Too Big To Fail" legislation currently being debated by a House committee has been widely criticized as toothless. But one provision gives the fe...

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A Systemic Risk Regulator and a Compensation Tsar? Larry Summers and Ben Bernanke Must Be Kidding

David Paul | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

With the announcement of record Wall Street bonus pools and rising credit card fees, it is time to sit back and see where we go from here.

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Oil's Massive Price Distortion Militates the Reconvening of the 1970s Federal Oil Price Task Force

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 11.08.2009 | Business

It is long past time that our government take seriously and study intensely how oil prices are determined in a world of OPEC, speculation, timid oversight and failing transparency.

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The One Free Lunch Left for Investors

Eric Schurenberg | Posted 10.31.2009 | Business

Read More: Jason Todd, Morgan Stanley, Growth Stocks, Franklin Templeton, Grant Bowers, Gerard Minack, Jeremy Grantham, Franklin Growth Opportunities, Conrad De Aenlle, Gmo, Business News

Stocks that got high quality ratings from Standard and Poor's have barely participated in the summer rally. The big gains were racked up by the seedier elements.

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Galleon Paid Banks $250 Million For Insider Tips: Financial Times

ft.com | Henny Sender | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Insider Trading, Morgan Stanley, Galleon Scandal, Wall Street, Galleon Group, Business News

The Galleon hedge fund at the centre of an insider trading scandal paid hundreds of millions of dollars a year to its Wall Street banks and in return ...

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Under Attack, Credit Raters Turn to the First Amendment

HuffPost Investigative Fund | By Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Market, Standard, Bill of Rights, Morgan Stanley, Moodys, Egan Jones, Free Speech, Huffington Post Investigative Fund, Business News

Editor's note: This is the first of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. To help with the investigation, sign up ...

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Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It

Robert Reich | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business

Two ideas are floating around Washington regarding how to handle 'too big to fail' banks, but only one is supported by the Treasury and the White House. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one.

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Sunday Roundup

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Morgan Stanley, Andrew Ross Sorkin, JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, John Mack, Pay Czar, Wall Street, Barack Obama, Too Big to Fail, Business News

This week, Obama's pay czar announced he'd be slashing executive pay at seven of the biggest recipients of bailout billions. So it's no surprise that many of Wall Street's Masters of the Universe didn't turn up at the New York fundraiser President Obama spoke at -- choosing instead to attend a party thrown to toast the release of Too Big To Fail, Andrew Ross Sorkin's blow-by-blow account of the meltdown. There, enjoying cocktails and finger food, were many of the central players, including Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan and John Mack of Morgan Stanley. Which is kind of like Hannibal Lecter showing up for the opening of Silence of the Lambs. Perhaps they take comfort in Sorkin's assessment that when it comes to reforming Wall Street "the Obama administration seems to have moved on to other priorities." I need a drink.

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Why Billionaires Should Pay for the Jobless Recovery

Les Leopold | Posted 10.25.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, CEO Pay, Morgan Stanley, Unemployment, Wealth, Bailout, Financial Crisis, Business News

For the past 30 years we have minted billionaires, and we have created the most unequal distribution of wealth since 1928-29. This didn't happen by accident.

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Daniel Gross: Why Wall Street Bonuses Will Continue to Exceed Profits

Slate Magazine | Daniel Gross | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Goldman Sachs, Elizabeth Warren, Morgan Stanley, Bailout, Economy, Financial Crisis, Daniel Gross, Kenneth Feinberg, Wall Street Bonuses, Wall Street Pay, Business News

This year, compensation will again eat up something close to a majority of Wall Street's revenues. And while Goldman and Morgan Stanley have paid back...

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Wiping Blood Off White Buck Shoes

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, President Obama, Orin Kramer, Realtytrac, JPMorgan Chase & Co., American International Group, Barack Obama, New York, Chrysler, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Dr. Daniel E. Fass, Morgan Stanley, University of California, General Motors, Wall Street, Bonus, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, White Shoe, New York Times, U.S. Census, London Telegraph, David D. Kirkpatrick, Business News

In New York, the oldest and snobbiest financial ventures are called "white shoe" firms. Their arrogance, risky investments and confounding dealing in derivatives threw the rest of us into the Great Recession.

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Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street and the Tolling of the Bell For America's Meritocracy

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.23.2009 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Goldman Sachs, Exxon, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Citigroup, The Bailouts, American Meritocracy, Business News

American capitalism has now become rotten to the core. Gone is the American capitalist impulse's unique sense of fair play and adherence to a level playing field, accessible to all.

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Matt Taibbi: Counterfeit Stocks Behind Bear Stearns And Lehman Downfall

rollingstone.com | Matt Taibbi | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Matt Taibbi, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street Crisis, Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, Securities and Exchange Commission, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Business News

Although the SEC issued more than 50 subpoenas to Wall Street firms, it has yet to identify the mysterious trader who somehow seemed to know in advanc...

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OMG! Greenspan Goes Populist?

Les Leopold | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bail Out, Morgan Stanley, Wall Street, TARP Money, Economy, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Business News

For Alan Greenspan, the apostle of free markets, to admit that financial free markets are not self-correcting is an enormous concession.

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Was Goldman Worth Saving? Reuters

Reuters | Rolfe Winkler | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: American Express, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Frannie-Mae, Freddie Mac, Morgan Stanley, Capital Purchase Program, Treasury, Tarp, Snl-Financial, Business News

Thirty-three TARP recipients missed a scheduled dividend payment to taxpayers last month, according to the Treasury Department, including 18 banks tha...

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Too Big To Fail: The Best Quotes From Andrew Ross Sorkin's Book (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Hank Paulson, Slidepoll, Stanley Druckenmiller, Jamie Dimon, Dick Fuld, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohn, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers, Tim Geithner, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Financial Crisis, Wachovia, Business News

New York Times scribe Andrew Ross Sorkin's much-anticipated book Too Big To Fail may be the closest we'll ever get to being a fly on the wall during l...

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Goldman Sachs Bonuses: Columnist Says Analysts Predict $23 Billion Bonus Pool, Firm May Make Huge Donation

New York Times | ANDREW ROSS SORKIN | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

By most analyst estimates, the annual bonus pool will swell to more than $23 billion. In its second quarter, Goldman disclosed it had put aside $11.4 ...

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Citigroup Returns to Banking by Divesting Its Oil Trading Arm

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Energy, Federal Bailouts, Phibro, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Occidental Petroleum, Lehman, Oil, Treasury, Federal Reserve, Andy Hall, Jpmorgan, Bailouts, Business News

It is scandalous that those in government vested with the responsibility of financial oversight have permitted a culture of "heads they win, tails we lose" to take hold and to grow into a financial Frankenstein.

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If You're A Bull, What Do You Buy?

Dan Dorfman | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Jonathan Moreland, Morgan Stanley, Walt Disney Stock, Wall Street Regulation, Wall Street, Stock Prices, Walt Disney Company, Stock Market, Benjamin Winburne, Business News

Keeping in mind that the market has already ballooned some 50% in the past seven months -- meaning you just could be late to the party -- what do you buy?

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Time to Stop the Regulatory Circus and to Steer the Ship to Safe Ground

Georges Ugeux | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home

The real issue for regulators around the globe is a serious definition of the financial world we want to live in. The current focus nearly exclusively on the banking sector could cause authorities to miss the broader picture.

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