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SEC looks to reassure investors (Reuters)
news.yahoo.com - 2/8/2009
SEC looks to reassure investors (Reuters)
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Reuters - Securities and Exchange Commission officials looked to reassure investors on Friday that they would reinvigorate the agency's policing of Wall Street, improve the quality of credit ratings and said they expect to bring more cases against mortgage fraud.

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exchanges.nyse.com - 2/4/2009
How a Blog Might Have Stopped Madoff
— exchanges.nyse.com — Perhaps the biggest irony of the Bernard Madoff case is that Harry Markopolos, the investor-turned-investigator who for years warned other investors and the Securities and Exchange Commission that Mr. Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme, today is ... (more) How a Blog Might Have Stopped Madoff

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epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com - 2/13/2009
To Catch a Thief
— epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com — I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in I'm proud to be a glutton, and I don't have time for sloth I'm greedy, and I'm angry, and I don't care who I cross I'm Mr. Bad Example, intruder in ... (more) To Catch a Thief

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reuters.com - 2/6/2009
SEC chief says agency to act like hair is on fire | U.S.
— reuters.com — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new head of the Securities and Exchange Commission took steps on Friday to reinvigorate the agency's policing of Wall Street, two days after a congressional hearing chastised SEC investigators for failing to uncover Bernard ... (more) SEC chief says agency to act like hair is on ...

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