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First, Fire the Regulators
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Jan 7 2009
The Obama administration needs to blow up the regulatory system and start from scratch. For the first time in decades, this may actually happen.
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The Hedge Fund Collapse
Posted
Nov 11 2008
In the next few months, thousands of hedge funds will go out of business. What the world will look like for the survivors.
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Deny Another Day
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Oct 15 2008
As investment banking collapsed, the dealmakers kept scrambling to make deals.
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The $58 Trillion Elephant in the Room
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Oct 15 2008
The roots of this year’s financial crisis go back to a small team of bankers at J.P. Morgan in New York. Now, their invention—credit derivatives—has helped bring down Wall Street and has left Morgan with its biggest exposure of all.
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Reining in the Speculators
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Sep 18 2008
Rapid-fire traders are being wrongly blamed for the downturn. That doesn't mean the status quo should hold. The case for a trading tax.
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London Banks, Falling Down
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Aug 13 2008
Britain's financial system was until recently hailed as a model for the U.S. Not anymore.
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Bank Job
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Jun 16 2008
Financial firms from Citigroup to Lehman are raising money at a breakneck pace, convincing investors that the worst is over. They couldn't be more wrong.
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Diary of a Short-Seller
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May 12 2008
Fund manager David Einhorn thought he was doing the right thing by speaking out against a shady finance company. The system fought back.
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It's (Really) the Economy, Stupid
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Apr 14 2008
The worst Wall Street turmoil in a generation is going to wipe every other issue off the table for the next president.
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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Mar 17 2008
Lose billions of dollars as a result of bad loans? Get a bigger bonus. Negotiate a dumb mortgage for that house you can't afford? Get bailed out by the Fed. These are heady days in the No-Consequences Economy.
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Would You Buy a Bridge From Warren Buffett?
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Feb 12 2008
The famed investor is getting into municipal-bond insurance. Too bad the industry is a racket.
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Wall Street's Next Crisis
Posted
Dec 17 2007
Now that the subprime shakeout is nearly over, another real estate mess looms, this time in commercial property.
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Wall Street Requiem
Posted
Oct 15 2007
The big investment banks, loaded with dangerous amounts of debt, are facing their own version of a subprime slump. Can they all survive?
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Crash Test Economy
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Sep 17 2007
Twenty years after Black Monday, we’re in the same predicament as we were in 1987—except this time, it’s worse.
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A Legend's Bloated Legacy
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Aug 13 2007
Sandy Weill’s Citigroup is staggering under its own excessive weight.
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The $300 Trillion Time Bomb
Posted
Mar 29 2007
If Warren Buffett can't figure out derivatives, can anybody?
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