Predictably, it never occurred to Andrew Ross Sorkin that being put in impossible ethical positions could be a cause of some of of Wall Street’s recent suicides.
Read more...Sanders can win, and that’s one of the reasons the press is going to try to sink him.
Read more...It appears that having the financial crisis analogue to the captain of the Titanic carry on in the stereotypical super-entitled Wall Street CEO manner was too much for the tender sensibilities of CNBC.
Read more...The SEC’s acting director of examinations gave a progress report a year after his predecessor exposed widespread misconduct in private equity. But is the agency goingfar enough?
Read more...Not surprisingly, the central bank has gone mum about a Freedom of Information Act request we submitted over two months ago.
Read more...The UK election results provoked the Economist to reveal its racist tendencies.
Read more...As the regulatory actions accumulate, Belvedere Management looks less and less like a maligned fund manager, and more and more like a giant fraud. How much of the $16Bn it purported to manage is left?
Read more...Why does Paul Krugman find it so difficult to admit to past error?
Read more...Late Thursday, Comcast apparently signaled that they would abort a 14-month bid to purchase Time Warner Cable, in a deal that would have created the nation’s largest cable operator by a wide margin. The FCC was going to recommend a hearing, which is a prelude to cancellation. The spin is that there are more consolidation attempts on the way, but there’s no guarantee that they would be successful either.
Read more...A shallow dive into the financial dealings of Krystal Ball of MSNBC and her husband Jonathan Dariyanani
Read more...David Marchant says Belvedere Management is a “Massive Criminal Enterprise”. Has he gone mad, or hit the investigative journo’s jackpot?
Read more...The CWM FX fraud bust, a murder, Princess Anne and some groping. It’s BAU in the world of sports sponsorship.
Read more...Adam Levine’s whistleblower suit against TPG has the potential to do real damage to the giant private equity firm.
Read more...While the New York Times did a public service by joining Wikileaks in publishing a draft chapter of the TPP, the accompanying article is quite another matter. Joe Firestone has taken it upon himself toshred analyze it. The sad reality is that the Times is never going to oppose neoliberalism in a serious way.
The Virgin Gold scam hits the press, along with London Capital and Bryan Cook
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