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At Goldman Sachs, It's Mostly $100 Million Days

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 11.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Bailout Bandits, Wall Street, Zero Hedge, Financial Crisis, Trading, Goldman Sachs Profits, Business News

On three out of every five days this year, Wall Street's leading firm has made at least $100 million trading stocks and bonds, and creating and enteri...

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Goldman Sachs Defends Trading Practices: Dark Pools, Flash Trading, Short Selling

Telegraph | James Quinn, US Business Editor | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Economy, Financial Reform, Dark Pools, Regulation, Bankers, Short Selling, Goldman, Investors, Goldman Sachs, Investing, Flash Trading, Wall Street, Finance, Trading Practices, Sec, Trading, Financial Regulation, Business News

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...

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Mark Cuban: SEC Files Notice Of Appeal Ruling In Trading Case Against Billionaire

AP | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Mavericks, Court of Appeals, Sec, Nba, Appeals Court, Mark Cuban, Trading, Mamma.com, Insider-Trading, Dallas, Business News

DALLAS — The Securities and Exchange Commission says it plans to appeal a federal judge's dismissal of the agency's insider-trading lawsuit agai...

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Barter Markets: Can Trading Beef for a Backpack Keep Consumption in Check?

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Secondhand, Consumerism, Consumption, Barter, Green News, Barcelona, Recession, Secondhand Shop, Shopping Tips, Secondhand Clothes, Vintage Shopping, Bartering, Global Economic Crisis, Global Recession, Trading, Barcelona Spain, Barter System, Living News
Kirsten Dirksen

One market devotee explained, "It's a way to give value to things. To leave money aside, even if just one day a year, and to encourage more the exchange."

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The GS-Files 4: Always a Winner

Nathan Lewis | Posted 08.08.2009 | Business

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Trading and Principal Investments, Hedge Funds, Stocks, Goldman Sachs Bailout, Hedge Fund, Goldman Sachs Profits, Trading, Business News
Nathan Lewis

Goldman has been making its money somewhat like a hedge fund: by buying and selling securities in the secondary market for profit. Why this activity should be government subsidized, I don't know.

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Neurofinance: Gaming the Human Brain?

N. E. Marsden | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Investments, U.S. Economy, Economics, Economic Crisis, Stock Market, Economy, Neuromarketing, Mortgage and Banking Crisis, Banking Crisis, Neuroeconomics, Neuroscience, Wall Street Crisis, Investment Strategy Investment Strategies, Stock Market Crash, Trader, Investment, Neurofinance, Analytics, Trading, Wall Street Bailout, Business News
N. E. Marsden

Wall Street has come up with a new twist on "insider trading": brain science. Neuroeconomics and Neurofinance give new meaning to the term "Pandora's Box."

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Stocks rally on good news for banks, GM, retailers

AP | MADLEN READ | Posted 04.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Stock Market, Trading, Stocks, Business News

NEW YORK — Investors have been clamoring for months for a bit of good news. On Thursday, they got a load of it. The Dow Jones industrials shot ...

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What America Got For Christmas

Reverend Billy | Posted 01.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Local Politics, Economy, Christmas, Holiday Season, Shopping, Consumer Economy, Holiday Season Commentary, Retail, Big Box Stores, Bartering, Retail Bubble, Retail Sales, Local Economies, Chain Stores, Commercial Christmas, Spending Less, Trading, Living News
Reverend Billy

So the retail bubble finally burst, with some estimating an extreme contraction of up to 8%. An America where local economies strike a balance with the big companies is clearly the idea.

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Why I Don't Like Economists

Peter Schwartz | Posted 12.12.2008 | Business

Read More: Debt, Warren Buffett, Economics, Political Science, Economy, Financial Crisis, Harvard, Gre, Trading, Business News
Peter Schwartz

They're all great guys, smart and amusing and passionate about their work. So what's not to like about economists? In a word, hubris. Economists fly too close to the sun of science.

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Washington Post Columnist: Market In Need Of A Time Out

Washington Post | Steven Pearlstein | Posted 11.11.2008 | Business

Read More: Financial Crisis, Stock Market, Trading, Wall Street, Business News

Remember the Rule of Holes: When you find yourself in one, the first thing to do is to stop digging. Right now we're in one of the deepest economic h...

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The "Politics" of an Olympic Pastime: Pin Trading at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

Courtney Woo | Posted 09.23.2008 | Media

Read More: Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Chinese Culture, China Media, China Journalists, Collectors, Pins, Trading, Students, China, Interns, Pin Trading, Media News
Courtney Woo

Pin trading has consumed almost everyone at the Olympic Green---volunteers, managers, broadcasters, technicians and myself included. I originally resisted this Olympic pastime until I discovered its political undertones.

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Traders' High: How Wall Street Gets Carried Away

New York Times | Jenny Anderson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Wall Street Traders, Trading, Jerome Kerviel, Wall Street, Neurofinance, Societe Generale, Brian Knutson, Business News

It is easy to dismiss Jérôme Kerviel, the rogue trader at Société Générale, as a fluke. So here is a sobering thought for Wall Street: There ma...

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Are Berkshire Hathaway Shares A Bargain At $126,400?

CNBC | Alex Crippen | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, Underperforming Stocks, Trading, Corrections, Wall Street, Business News

Just weeks after closing at an all-time high in mid-December, shares of Warren Buffett's holding company Berkshire Hathaway are falling deeper into 'c...

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Wall Street Skids On Weak Manufacturing Report, Record-Breaking Oil Prices

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil Prices, Trading, Manufacturing, Wall Street, Dow Jones Industrials, $100 Oil, Business News

Wall Street skidded lower Wednesday after a weaker-than-expected reading on the manufacturing sector and a spike in oil prices to $100 a barrel trigge...

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