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Morgan Stanley CEO Calls for More Regulation of Wall Street at Vanity Fair-Bloomberg Event

Katya Wachtel | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business

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Katya Wachtel

Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack was cheekily ambushed by Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan Wednesday night.

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Paul Krugman Vs. Niall Ferguson: They Battle Over Inflation

Times of London | Matthew Lynn | Posted 09.23.2009 | Business

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One of them is a "poseur". The other is "patronising". One suffers from "verbal diarrhoea". The other is a "whiner". A bust-up on the set of High S...

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Why My Comparing Obama to Felix the Cat Is Not Racist

Niall Ferguson | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

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Niall Ferguson

So it's racist to compare President Obama with Felix the Cat? Oh dear, the seemingly dead body of political correctness just twitched. Let's try logic, shall we?

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Finance for Dummies

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

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Yvette Kantrow

All of the eagerly professed ignorance of the Fed's operations begs the question: What is it about anything that has to do with money, finance or economics that enables otherwise thinking people to plead total cluelessness?

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Financial Times Columnist: Obama Like Felix The Cat — Black And Lucky

Huffington Post | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

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The Financial Times' Niall Ferguson Tuesday compared President Obama to Felix the Cat, saying that, like Obama, the cartoon cat was black and lucky. ...

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Niall Ferguson: Why We Never Learn The Right Lessons From Financial Crises

New York Times Magazine | NIALL FERGUSON | Posted 06.17.2009 | Business

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If financial crises were distributed along a bell curve -- like traffic accidents or people's heights -- really big ones wouldn't happen very often. W...

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Niall Ferguson On Fareed Zakaria's Show: Discusses Financial Crisis, Agrees With Paul Krugman (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.27.2009 | Business

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Eminent British historian Niall Ferguson appeared on Fareed Zakaria's CNN show to discuss the financial crisis and the bank bailouts. Ferguson had to...

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CNBC's Clueless Mark Haines Calls Me "Clueless" on Morning Joe: I Respond

Arianna Huffington | Posted 03.07.2009 | Business

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Arianna Huffington

Haines, clearly still wearing his Wall Street blinders -- and still speaking out for the Marie Antoinettes of the Meltdown -- was apoplectic over my suggestion that taxpayers should stop subsidizing equity holders in insolvent banks.

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How About a Smart-Plus-Greedy-Equals-Stupid Tax?

David Quigg | Posted 02.03.2009 | Business

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David Quigg

How about a smart-plus-greedy-equals-stupid tax? We will save it for the absolutely inevitable moment in the not-so-distant future when Wall Street will forget the lessons of 2008.

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Rethinking Afghanistan

Stanley Kutler | Posted 11.14.2008 | Politics

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Stanley Kutler

What in the world is Barack Obama thinking? Mercifully, he plans to scale down and end the Iraq misadventure, yet he insists he will expand the effort in Afghanistan.

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