time.com - 3/1/2009
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Historians looking for an early sign that the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression might be deeper than expected could do worse than listen in on a predawn teleconference one Friday last spring. Top Treasury and Federal Reserve Bank officials hunched over their phones in a ...
cbsnews.com - 3/2/2009
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cbsnews.com —
Harry Markopolos repeatedly told the Securities and Exchange
Commission that Bernie Madoff's investment fund was a fraud....
He was ignored, however, and investors lost billions of dollars. Steve Kroft reports.
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The Man Who Figured Out Madoff's Scheme
sec.gov - 3/2/2009
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sec.gov —
The Securities and Exchange Commission today is warning
investors and financial services firms about con-artists who may...
use the names of actual SEC employees to mislead potential victims. The agency also is providing information to help potential ...
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SEC Warns Investors and Financial Firms of Government ...
tradersmagazine.com - 3/5/2009
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tradersmagazine.com —
Duncan Niederauer would like to see the SEC
reinstate the uptick rule for short sales, even if...
it's mainly for the sake of bucking up "investor psychology."
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NYSE Chief Renews Call for Uptick Rule
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Sneak Peek at Weekend Reading
Paul Kedrosky's Infectious Greed —
A sneak peek at some links from my weekly Weekend Reading column at TheStreet: Niall Ferguson on the “great repression” and why mass mortgage modifications are required (Australian) Animal Foraging and Investors’ Portfolios: Why The Decision Similarity? (IIJ) The Canadian banks as a model to follow (NYTimes) The Inside Story on the Breakdown at the SEC (TIME) China needs to kick its factory addiction (Globe & Mail)
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Web Watch: Best Blog Posts and Columns For the Week Ending Mar. 6
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... ADAM ZAGORIN AND MICHAEL WEISSKOPF, TIME (March 3, 2009): The Inside Story on the Breakdown at the SEC ...
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