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WATCH: Why Wedding Dresses Are So Expensive

Posted 04.03.2012

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When Caitlin Kenney, producer of NPR's Planet Money, got married in May 2011, she paid more than $2,700 for her gown. That seemed expensive, so Ken...

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Mr. Davidson's Planet: NPR/NYT Guru Adam Davidson's Discredited Economic Principles

Lynn Parramore | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Adam Davidson, Unemployment, Planet Money, Europe, Economics, Business News
Lynn Parramore

You'd be hard-pressed to find a discipline that shapes our world more than economics, and yet none has weaker foundations or more misguided evangelists, such as Adam Davidson.

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Arianna's Thoughts On Money: Q&A With 'Planet Money'

npr.org | Jacob Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raising Children, Money, Arianna, Third World America, Jacob Goldstein, Arianna Huffington, Clothing Allowance, Planet Money, Economy, Business News

In the coming months, we'll be talking to lots of different people about how money works in their lives. Today, we have our first two installments. ...

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A Hedge Fund Show Tune: Ditty Lampoons Magnetar's 'Betting Against The American Dream' (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Christian Borle, Planet Money, Cdos, Magnetar Trade, Credit Default Swaps, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Propublica, Robert Lopez, John Treacy Eagan, Magnetar, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, This American Life, Housing Bubble, Video, Business News

As part of their segment this week on the hedge fund Magnetar, This American Life and Planet Money asked Broadway composer Robert Lopez to write a sho...

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Do Business Schools See Why CDOs Are Compared to "Springtime for Hitler"?

David Fiderer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Cdos, Subprime Mortgages, Harvard Business School, This American Life, Propublica, Wall Street Journal, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Housing Bubble, Collateralized Debt Obligations, Magnetar Trade, John Treacy Eagan, Housing Crisis, Credit Default Swaps, Business News, Planet Money, Robert Lopez, Christian Borle, Magnetar, Financial Crisis, Business News
David Fiderer

New reporting offers hard evidence that Magnetar, a hedge fund group based in Chicago, had designed a series of subprime mezzanine CDOs that were all but guaranteed to fail.

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ProPublica's (and NY Times') "Untold" Magnetar Story Creates Excuses for Wall Street and Washington

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Aig, Goldman Sachs, Rmbs, Propublica, Calyon, Cdos, Financial Crisis, Ponzi Scheme, New York Times, Planet Money, This American Life, Wall Street Journal, Magnetar, Wachovia, Business News
Janet Tavakoli

Contrary to recent reports, Magnetar wasn't a previously unknown hedge fund, it did not create the synthetic CDO structure, and the magnitude of its role in the subprime crisis has been overblown.

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Financial Reform: It's the Derivatives, Stupid!

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers, Mortgage Backed Securities, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Npr, Troubled Asset, Credit Default Swaps, Naked Credit Default Swaps, Goldman Sachs, Aig, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Securities, Lehman Brothers, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Bear Stearns, Planet Money, Sen. Chris Dodd, Liar Loans, Wall Street Bailout, Greece, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

Wall Streeters who get millions in bonuses to know better are still trading in derivatives. Nothing is preventing another financial collapse, when Wall Street will come crying to Washington for a new $700 billion

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NPR's Planet Money Buys A Toxic Asset Just To Watch It Die

npr.org | Nelson Hsu, Heather Murphy, David Kestenbaum, Chana Joffe-Walt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Planet Money, Subprime Mortgages, Economy, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Toxic Assets, Mortgage-Backed Securities, Business News

Remember those complicated bonds full of home mortgages? The ones that almost brought down the economy? A team of NPR reporters used $1,000 of their o...

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Jason Linkins

'Planet Money' Bought A Toxic Asset, Now You Can Watch It Slowly Die

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Toxic Assets, Planet Money, Tarp, Eat the Press, Business News

Way, way back in the go-go days of predatory lending, terrible mortgage companies were handing out terrible mortgages to just about anyone with a puls...

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Jason Linkins

"Planet Money" Reporter Paints Elizabeth Warren As Agenda-Driven

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Elizabeth Warren, Business Reporting, Media Criticism, Financial Crisis, Planet Money, Business News, Eat the Press, Media News

Yesterday, CJR's Ryan Chittum posted a blistering critique of NPR's Adam Davidson's attempt at an interview with TARP overseer Elizabeth Warren on "Pl...

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