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...Wall Streeters got wiped out because their wealth was tied to their firm's stock price. Dick Fuld, the former CEO of Lehman, had shares and options worth about $1 billion at their peak. He got less than $1 million when he sold them after the firm went bankrupt. (He still took home, before taxes, $490 million from his stock-based compensation, so don't cry for him.) James Cayne, CEO of the defunct Bear Stearns, was in a similar situation. If Fuld and Cayne had known their firms were as badly at risk as they proved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Still Wrong with Wall Street | 10/29/2009 | See Source »

...they jumped into the sector last March and drove REIT prices up 97% from that trough? Not exactly. REIT valuations were extremely cheap, as the sector had lost 73% of its value from its peak in February 2007. "REITs were priced in the first quarter like they were going bankrupt," says Robert W. Baird & Co. director David AuBuchon. (Read "Commercial Real Estate - the Economy's Anvil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REITs and Commercial Real Estate's Victims | 10/28/2009 | See Source »

...been about innovation, we have always been about discovery. That's in our DNA. The truth is we also face more complex challenges than generations past. A medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures is attached to a health care system that has the potential to bankrupt families and businesses and our government. A global marketplace that links the trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street to the factory worker in China -- an economy in which we all share opportunity is also an economy in which we all share crisis. We face threats...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Obama Disses Harvard, Pushes Clean Energy | 10/24/2009 | See Source »

...been about innovation, we have always been about discovery. That's in our DNA. The truth is we also face more complex challenges than generations past. A medical system that holds the promise of unlocking new cures is attached to a health care system that has the potential to bankrupt families and businesses and our government. A global marketplace that links the trader on Wall Street to the homeowner on Main Street to the factory worker in China -- an economy in which we all share opportunity is also an economy in which we all share crisis. We face threats...

Author: By June Q. Wu | Title: Obama Disses Harvard, Pushes Clean Energy | 10/23/2009 | See Source »

...Other Republicans, like economist Kevin Hassett, a former adviser to McCain's presidential campaign, say it might be better to focus on policy fixes that could have long-term impacts, not just short-term impacts. "You can have a stimulus every quarter from now until we go bankrupt," Hassett said. "But would that be good policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House Readies a Stealth Stimulus | 10/19/2009 | See Source »

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