economistsview.typepad.com - 11/27/2008
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George Packer wants Wall Street executives to grow up and apologize for their behavior:
The Moral Stage of Wall Street, by George Packer : Swiss bankers are not
known as paragons of transparency and moral accountability, so it’s a nice
surprise to
read that the top officials of UBS, ...
Why Bailout Wall Street?
canadiancapitalist.com 10/4/2008 — There is a lot of public anger on the $700 billion dollar bailout that is being proposed by the Bush Administration. The typical reaction is why bail out well-paid fat cats on Wall Street, who are responsible for the current mess anyway. While it is ...
Bonuses for Wall Street Should Go to Zero, U.S. Taxpayers Say
bloomberg.com 11/11/2008 — Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. taxpayers, who feel they own a stake in Wall Street after funding a $700 billion bailout for the industry, don't want executives' bonuses reduced. They want them eliminated. ``I may not understand everything, but I do ...
Main Street > Wall Street
macro-man.blogspot.com 9/29/2008 — Clearly there are more voters on Main Street than Wall Street, and we all know that the first job of a Congressman in October is to make sure that he is a Congressman in January. Regardless of whether "the package" was a good idea or not, it doesn't ...
It’s as Bad on Main Street as Wall Street
jeffmatthewsisnotmakingthisup.blogspot.com 10/3/2008 — A long-standing observation of ours is this: the further you get away from Wall Street, the more optimistic you get. On Wall Street, stocks go up and down—sometimes violently—every hour, minute and second of the trading day. Wall Street’s Finest ...
WALL STREET BIGS WON'T HELP CUOMO BLOW OUT CANDLE$ - New York Post
nypost.com 11/19/2008 — Posted: 3:41 am November 19, 2008 Few Wall Streeters are expected to show up for New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's lavish birthday and fund-raising bash in two weeks - but it's not because they weren't invited. Several Wall Street bigwigs ...
Why Can't You Be More Like Goldman Sachs?
dealbreaker.com 11/18/2008 — So, I'm not saying that Citi senior executives should get bonuses, because they probs shouldn't. But if I were Vickie Pandit or one of the Pandettes it would really frost my cookies to hear Andrew Cuomo suggest that "At the very least, Citigroup ...
Wall Street News & Articles on washingtonpost.com
washingtonpost.com 9/15/2008 — Wall Street Articles After America's fury, Wall Street has changed forever (Independent, Ireland) 10/1/2008 12:03:35 AM Taipei shares open higher on Wall St bounce, local ban on short-selling (Forbes) 9/30/2008 11:53:00 PM Slow Rise for a New Era ...
Wall Street Really Needs Relief
gothamist.com 10/9/2008 — It has not been a good time on Wall Street , and now it's gotten even lower. Reader Adalis writes, " Someone spray painted the Wall St. Bulls balls blue. It was gone in a few hours, but I snapped some quick pics."
Resurrection on Wall Street
online.barrons.com 3/14/2009 — YES, VIRGINIA, THERE STILL IS LIFE ON WALL STREET. After a year that saw the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers and forced mergers involving Bear Stearns and Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley seem on course for a profitable first quarter and ...
When Wall Street died…
ritholtz.com 12/29/2008 — “Within a week, Wall Street as it was known — loosely regulated, daringly risky and lavishly rewarded — was dead.”
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Today’s must read MSM article is a front page WSJ piece, titled, The Weekend That Wall Street Died . Since we have been tossing around ...
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