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Barry Ritholtz: Give The SEC Teeth

The Big Picture | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

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By Barry Ritholtz Note: this post also appeared on Ritholtz's blog, The Big Picture. The problems at the SEC were decades in the making. The a...

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7 Reasons Why The Housing Market Hasn't Hit Bottom

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 08.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Real Estate Crisis, The Big Picture, Housing Market, Real Estate Prices, Barry-Rithholtz, Business News

On Saturday, I posted this chart and wondered why "Some people were calling for a housing bottom." That generated a ton of emails asking about for fur...

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Community Reinvestment Act: Did It Cause The Housing Crisis?

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 07.30.2009 | Business

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I've run out of patience with tired memes and discredited claims by fools and partisan. The rhetoric of those pushing nonsense on the public in an at...

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Bailout Costs: More Than WWII, New Deal, Vietnam, Iraq Combined

The Big Picture | Barry Rithholtz | Posted 07.19.2009 | Business

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It is exceedingly difficult to convey exactly how much we are spending on all these bailouts. Whenever I start talking trillions (versus mere billions...

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