paul.kedrosky.com - 10/14/2008
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The heads of the nine big banks in the U.S. got briefed yesterday on Henry Paulson's equity injection plan -- they will all get new capital and we taxpayers as shareholders -- and then they ran for their limos, much to Washington Post columnist Steve Pearlstein's dismay. Here is what he thinks ...
Who Is Wall Street's Queen B.?
vanityfair.com 10/1/2008 — Bankruptcies ... fire sales ... banks on the brink: these are dark days for Wall Street. But, for CNBC and Maria Bartiromo, things couldn't be better. At 41, Bartiromo is a star, the Barbara Walters of business news, and the prize in an expected ...
Who Is Wall Street's Queen B.?
vanityfair.com 9/30/2008 — Bankruptcies ... fire sales ... banks on the brink: these are dark days for Wall Street. But, for CNBC and Maria Bartiromo, things couldn't be better. At 41, Bartiromo is a star, the Barbara Walters of business news, and the prize in an expected ...
The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business News
portfolio.com 11/12/2008 — 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 ...
Inside Wall Street's Culture Of Risk
businessweek.com 11/5/2008 — 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 ...
Six Banks Fail Stress Test
businessinsider.com 4/29/2009 — vikrampandit-talking_tbi.jpg Six banks have failed the preliminary stress test, Bloomberg says . They're now appealing. The government wants these banks to raise capital by converting preferred stock to common stock, which would stave off the need for ...
The "Test" Is Here
bespokeinvest.typepad.com 2/17/2009 — The much awaited "test" of the November lows is here for the Dow Jones Industrials Average. While this is quite depressing while it's occurring, it's a normal part of a "bottoming process" if the bottom is indeed being made. If the market holds and ...
Too big to fail FAIL
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 6/20/2009 — Too big to fail, even in 1982
I'm a big advocate of much strengthened financial regulation. One argument I don't buy, however, is that we should try to shrink financial institutions down to the point where nobody is too big to fail. Basically, it's ...
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