nytimes.com - 12/19/2008
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Money benchmarks reached soaring heights and scraping lows in 2008, a year whose convulsions few saw coming. >
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Elsewhere on Friday, - The Fed and “Gladwell’s tipping point.” - Blame those bonuses… - … Or blame the New York Times . - The fast life, bold ambitions and hard fall of lawyer Marc Dreier. - Pepys on Wall Street: The diary of a hedge fund manager. - Floyd’s year in finance: Chaos and doom . - Expert predictions for 2009. - ‘Stuff we like’: Crikey’s summer reading guide . - Greenspan on the future of banks . - “It’s never ideal for private corporations to rely on public funding, but we would not ...
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... “This was the year the financial system stopped working.” (NYTimes.com) ...
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