businessweek.com - 11/5/2008
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JUNE 12, 2006 COVER STORY Inside Wall Street's Culture Of Risk Investment banks are placing bigger bets than ever and beating the odds -- at least for now On the 31st floor of a skyscraper overlooking Times Square one recent spring day, a dozen or so of Lehman Brothers Inc.'s ( LEH ) ...
portfolio.com - 11/12/2008
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o this day, the willingness of a Wall
Street investment bank to pay me hundreds of thousands
of dollars to dispense investment advice to grownups remains a mystery to me. I was 24 years old, with no experience of, or particular interest in, guessing ...
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The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News
economistsview.typepad.com - 11/6/2008
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This doesn't inspire much confidence: You may make
a mess, but please don't try to clean it
up by Barbara Kiviat : It's hard to believe, but people are starting to express outrage over the New York Fed hiring the former chief risk officer ...
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... New York Fed Names New Senior VP Federal Reserve Bank of New York Press release Oct. 31 2008 Inside Wall Street’s Culture of Risk BusinessWeek Jun. 12 2006
"Culture of Risk"
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... So I did a little rooting around, and found
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June 2006 BusinessWeek story about Wall Street's "culture of risk" for which
Alix was interviewed. An excerpt: ...
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... So I did a little rooting around, and found this June 2006 BusinessWeek story about Wall Street's "culture of risk" for which Alix was interviewed. An excerpt: ...
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