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The Worst Stock Predictions Of The Decade: See How Wrong The 2000 Predictions Were

bespokeinvest.com | Posted 12.02.2009 | Business


Along with the looks back at the 2000s, we'll also see plenty of stories touting stocks for the next decade in the coming months. Prognosticating jus...

Home Prices "Not Even Close" To Bottom: Barry Ritholtz (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Grace Kiser and Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.25.2009 | Business


In case you missed it -- or were just plain confused -- this week saw the release of a bewildering number of housing indicators. The S&P/Case-Shiller ...

Executive's Pensions See Huge Growth

wsj.com | ELLEN E. SCHULTZ and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 11.03.2009 | Business


Pensions for top executives rose an average of 19% in 2008, with more than 200 executives seeing pensions increase more than 50%, according to a Wall ...

Economist Andrew Smithers: S&P 500 Overvalued By 40%, Could Plunge

BloggingStocks | Tom Johansmeyer | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business


Economist and president of a research firm that bears his name, Andrew Smithers (not related to the Smithers of Mr. Burns fame) is saying our on-fire ...

Ethan Bronner: In The Mideast, Force Trumps Diplomacy

nytimes.com | ETHAN BRONNER | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


JERUSALEM As the Obama administration tries to broker a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is a dark truth lurking: force has produ...

S&M Svengali: Glenn Marcus Sex Trafficking, Forced Labor Appeal Goes To Supreme Court

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | New York

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has agreed to consider reinstating the sex trafficking and forced labor conviction of a man dubbed the "S&M Sveng...

NYT: Citigroup Hires Former S&L Crisis Lobbyist

The Huffington Post | Jenna Staul | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business


The New York Times takes a look at Citigroup's hiring of Richard F. Hohlt -- a former lobbyist with a controversial past who will now advise the volat...

Newsweek: Credit Rating Agencies Are Getting Off Easy

newsweek.com | Michael Hirsh | Posted 12.01.2009 | Business


Moody's and Standard & Poor's, the two giants of the industry, are still around despite causing the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars by badly r...

Eric Kolchinsky, Moody's Whistleblower: Ratings Are Still Inflated, Nothing's Changed

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.23.2009 | Business


As the big three credit rating agencies -- Moody's Investor Service, Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings -- prepare to face the scrutiny of the House ...

Where Are The Handcuffs Now? During S&L Crisis, Thousands Of Bankers Went To Jail

Financial Times | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


How many financiers do you think ended up in jail after America's Savings and Loans scandals? The answer can be found in a fascinating, old report fro...

Wall Street's Advice From Last March Missed Biggest Rally In 70 Years

bloomberg.com | Lynn Thomasson and Adria Cimino | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business


Aug. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who did what Wall Street analysts advised last March has only losses after the biggest stock market rally in seven decad...

Corporate Earnings Aren't A Sign Of Recovery: WSJ

wsj.com | ZACHARY KARABELL | Posted 09.10.2009 | Business


Despite grim predictions, most major U.S. companies have reported positive earnings for the second quarter of 2009. Given how wrong past predictions h...

Rating Agencies Escape Overhaul In Recent Bill

ft.com | Joanna Chung and Aline van Duyn in New York | Posted 08.22.2009 | Business


Credit rating agencies would face a raft of new disclosure rules and restrictions but would not be forced to overhaul their business models under prop...

Calpers Sues Moody's, S&P, Fitch Over Ratings Of Shoddy Assets

nytimes.com | LESLIE WAYNE | Posted 08.15.2009 | Business

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SACRAMENTO -- The nation's largest public pension fund has filed suit in California state court in connection with $1 billion in losses that it says w...

Rating Agencies Spared In Obama Financial Reforms

Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long attacked for awarding pristine ratings to mortgages and other securities that proved worthless, credit rating agencies were ...

Case-Shiller: Home Prices Show Record Decline, Fall 19.1%

wsj.com | KERRY E. GRACE and KEVIN KINGSBURY | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business


U.S. home prices continued their multiyear tumble in March, according to the S&P Case-Shiller home-price indexes, as the downdraft shows no near-term ...

Stocks surge; S&P 500 turns positive for 2009

AP | TIM PARADIS and SARA LEPRO | Posted 06.04.2009 | Business

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NEW YORK — The Standard & Poor's 500 index is up for the year. And for once, it was the housing market that sent stocks soaring. The S&P 500, c...

Morgan Stanley: Sell Stocks Following Best S&P 500 Rally Since 1938

bloomberg.com | Nick Baker | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


March 30 (Bloomberg) -- Investors should sell U.S. stocks following the steepest rally since the 1930s because earnings are likely to keep weakening, ...

Lotto Versus Stocks, Which Is Better?

Minyanville | Cory Bortnicker | Posted 04.03.2009 | Business


I'll admit it - a few weeks ago, I bought a $1 scratch ticket. I thought, "Why not?" I ended up winning $7, and proudly announced the news to the Miny...

Steele Crazy After All This Year

Ellis Weiner | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics


Ellis Weiner

We are witnessing, not so much the collapse of the Republican Party, as its slide into insanity. What was the GOP's great accomplishment last week? A show of "unity" enough to block the first stimulus package.

Let GM Fail

Alan Schram | Posted 12.19.2008 | Business


Alan Schram

Throwing taxpayers' good money into that sink hole called the US auto industry will be tantamount to a transfer of wealth from tax payers to GM employees.

Seth Colter Walls

Smears Contradicted: Obama Organizing Work Was Not With ACORN

HuffingtonPost.com | Seth Colter Walls | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics


On Friday, the Huffington Post debunked a series of charges made by conservative activists linking Sen. Barack Obama to the community organizing group...

Johnny Come Late-Nightly

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.09.2008 | Entertainment


Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Did you groan when David Letterman told Monica jokes? Do you Tivo The Daily Show ? If your answer is yes, then Strange Bedfellows: How Late Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke may be the book for you.