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nytimes.com - 22 days ago
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“IF you really want to know why the
financial system nearly collapsed in the fall of 2008,
I can tell you in one simple sentence.” The statement came from a man sitting three or four stools away from me in a sparsely populated Midtown bar, where I was ...
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mcclatchydc.com - 18 days ago
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WASHINGTON -- As the housing market collapsed in
late 2007, Moody's Investors Service, whose investment ratings were
widely trusted, responded by purging analysts and executives who warned of trouble and promoting those who helped Wall Street plunge ...
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How Moody's sold its ratings -- and sold out investors
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blogs.wsj.com - 12 days ago
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Uncle Sam’s interventions in the housing market have
pushed home prices 5% higher on a national average
than they would have been otherwise, Goldman Sachs estimates in a report released late Friday. The government over the past year has slowed the ...
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Uncle Sam Adds 5% to Prices of Homes, Goldman Says
macroblog.typepad.com - 29 days ago
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In a speech yesterday, William Dudley, the president
of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, identified
financial constraints for small businesses as a restraint on the pace of economic recovery. Specifically, he said: "For small business ...
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Prospects for a small business-fueled employment recovery
gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 28 days ago
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Here are the odds offered at Ladbrokes ,
the UK-based gambling company, for some candidates for this
year's Nobel prize in economics: Eugene Fama 2/1 Paul Romer 4/1 Ernst Fehr 6/1 Kenneth R. French 6/1 William Nordhaus 6/1 Robert Barro 7/1 Matthew J ...
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Nobel Odds
online.wsj.com - 22 days ago
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Major U.S. banks and securities firms are on
pace to pay their employees about $140 billion this
year -- a record high that shows compensation is rebounding despite regulatory scrutiny of Wall Street's pay culture. Workers at 23 top investment banks, ...
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Wall Street On Track To Award Record Pay
hussmanfunds.com - 17 days ago
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October 19, 2009 The Stock Market Has Never
Been This (Intermediate-Term) Overbought John P. Hussman, Ph.D. All
rights reserved and actively enforced. Reprint Policy If you spend a great deal of time analyzing market data, there are some dates that ...
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Term) Overbought
online.wsj.com - 8 days ago
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DAN FITZPATRICK and DAMIAN PALETTA In a stark
reminder of how some battered financial firms remain dependent
on government lifelines, GMAC Financial Services Inc. and the Treasury Department are in advanced talks to prop up the lender with its third ...
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GMAC Asks for Fresh Lifeline
nytimes.com - 4 days ago
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OVER the past 80 years, the United States
government has engineered not one, not two, not three,
but at least four rescues of the institution now known as Citigroup . In previous instances, the bank came back from the crisis and prospered. Will ...
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Can Citigroup Carry Its Own Weight?
ft.com - 3 days ago
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Since March there has been a massive rally
in all sorts of risky assets – equities, oil,
energy and commodity prices – a narrowing of high-yield and high-grade credit spreads, and an even bigger rally in emerging market asset classes (their stocks, ...
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Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust
online.wsj.com - 3 days ago
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WASHINGTON -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in
talks to buy millions of dollars of tax credits
from government-controlled mortgage giant Fannie Mae, but the potential deal is running into opposition from the U.S. Treasury, which could block the deal. A ...
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Goldman Looks to Buy Fannie Tax Credits
usatoday.com - 16 days ago
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You may believe that your exemplary behavior shields
you from unexpected credit card fees. Sadly, that is
no longer the case. Starting next year, Bank of America will charge a small number of customers an annual fee, ranging from $29 to $99. The bank ...
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Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time ...
hussmanfunds.com - 24 days ago
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October 11, 2009 Zen Lessons in Market Analysis
John P. Hussman, Ph.D. All rights reserved and actively
enforced. Reprint Policy The best way of preparing for the future is to take good care of the present, because we know that if the present is ...
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Weekly Market Comment
nypost.com - 23 days ago
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Brawls with inmate By RICH CALDER Last Updated:
6:27 AM, October 13, 2009 Posted: 2:44 AM, October
13, 2009
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Bernie's bruising battle -- over stocks!
ft.com - 17 days ago
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We did not need to wait until the
Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 10,000 . It has
been clear for some time that global equity markets are bubbling again. On the surface, this looks like 2003 and 2004 when the previous housing, credit, commodity and ...
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Countdown to the next crisis is already under way
thestreet.com - 14 days ago
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This blog post originally appeared on RealMoney Silver
on Oct. 21 at 8:45 a.m. EDT. While it
has been widely advertised by chest-thumping bulls in the media that at least two-thirds of the companies that have reported third-quarter earnings have ...
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Kass: The Earnings Season Racket
ft.com - 6 days ago
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Published: October 29 2009 23:01 | Last updated:
October 29 2009 23:01 Concerns about the business practices
of Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam and his associates were raised inside JPMorgan Chase as far back as 2001, according to an ...
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Galleon fears raised in 2001
thereformedbroker.com - 3 days ago
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Click Image to Embiggen! I’ve been asked several
times to update my finance blogger list, so I
figured on the week of The Reformed Broker’s first anniversary, I’d oblige. Everyone listed on The Periodic Table of Finance Bloggers has ...
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The Periodic Table of Finance Bloggers
ft.com - 29 days ago
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Published: October 6 2009 15:13 | Last updated:
October 6 2009 15:13 Hope always seems to spring
eternal in liquidity-driven financial markets. That is very much the case today in the aftermath of the biggest liquidity injection in modern history. ...
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Insight: Crisis breeds short memories
ft.com - 29 days ago
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Citi eyes commodities unit sell-off By Francesco Guerrera
and Henny Sender in New York Published: October 7
2009 00:00 | Last updated: October 7 2009 00:00 Citigroup is working on a sale of its controversial commodities unit in a move that could raise ...
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Citi eyes commodities unit sell
