Banks Get Small Win On Accounting Standards
A House panel approved a provision Thursday that calls for a new oversight body dominated by bank regulators to advise on accounting rules for banks, ...
A House panel approved a provision Thursday that calls for a new oversight body dominated by bank regulators to advise on accounting rules for banks, ...
Posted 11.18.2009 | Denver
Speed of Wealth LLC, the Centennial financial firm that was accused Monday of orchestrating a $30 million Ponzi scheme targeting green investors, had ...
bloomberg.com | Roger Lowenstein | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
Financial reform seems to be flailing. Legislation has been proposed, but it is complicated and diffuse. Most of the proposed fixes are incremental ch...
AP | MARK JEWELL | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
BOSTON — Federal regulators may try to collect bonus money awarded to the top executive of Beazer Homes USA Inc. covering periods when the homeb...
AP | Posted 11.17.2009 | Denver
DENVER — Federal regulators have accused four people and two companies of fraud in an alleged $30 million Ponzi scheme that lured 300 investors ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
In the midst of what was supposed to be a Congressional push for increased financial regulation and accountability, a powerful coalition of moneyed in...
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
AP | TOM HAYS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
NEW YORK — Two former employees for Bernard Madoff programmed an old IBM computer to generate false records that concealed the crooked financier's m...
nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Roomy Khan, one of several former traders cooperating with the prosecution of the biggest U.S. hedge fund insider trading case, t...
Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Ben Protess and Lagan Sebert | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
Editor's Note: This is the second of three articles by the Investigative Fund on the credit rating companies. Read the first article here. When the n...
Wayne Winston | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.
FanHouse | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
High definition television has revolutionized the sports viewing experience. What it hasn't revolutionized is the SEC's ability to use high definition...
Wall Street Journal | DAMIAN PALETTA and MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Democrats are advancing proposals in Congress designed to limit the size and complexity of financial companies so that any collapse wouldn't damage th...
David A. Love | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Often, people will look at a high-profile example of corruption, and conclude that the egregious act is an exception to the rule. In reality, it might be the tip of the iceberg.
AP | JOHN ZENOR | Posted 11.08.2009 | Home
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Julio Jones left defenders grasping at his heels and Alabama's defense was typically immovable. The Crimson Tide is riding th...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 11.06.2009 | Business
Amid the ongoing financial regulation overhaul, the banking industry is hoping to pull off a quiet power grab that has eluded its grasp since the Grea...
Pat Choate | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
Nothing can better send a message to the world that the United States is serious about restoring the integrity of its money industry than by banning from it the prominent people who deceived the nation and the world.
AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has agreed to pay $75 million in fines and forfeit $647 million in fees to settle federal regulators' charges ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.04.2009 | Business
A House panel voted Wednesday to permanently exempt more than half of all publicly traded companies from a seven-year-old post-Enron measure designed ...
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
Goldman spent years buying hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages, many of them from some of the more unsavory lenders in the business, and packa...
McClatchy | Greg Gordon | Posted 11.01.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON -- In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but n...
Norb Vonnegut | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
The season makes me wonder: What does it take to become a Halloween mask?
Alice Schroeder | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Warren Buffett is never more himself than when he is given the chance to invest in something he wants at a price of his choosing.
Alicia Whitaker | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
Shareholders can now challenge the board to learn more about plans for CEO succession. This is one more action that will make it less likely that the CEO can fill the board with good old boys.
Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business
In a document handed to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the investment bank asserts that such practices, some of which the SEC is loo...
HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.19.2009 | Business