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The stock market has been pointing to an improved economic picture. There has to be a lot of optimism built into a 20% stock market rise that takes less than half a month. But, news that GM (GM) or Chrysler might go bankrupt and that large American banks may need...
The Treasury Department's program to buy toxic loans could cost banks as much as $210 billion. That's the losses the financial firms will book from selling poorly performing loans as part of the government's recently announced Public-Private Investment Plan. What's more, if a recently proposed...
Some observers say the multi-hundred billion dollar losses, along with the possibility that government will be tapped out when it comes to financial rescues, raise the question as to whether some of the big banks will choose to, or be able to, participate in the Treasury's PPIP program...
Welcome to the SEC Circus I was incensed after reading your article on the lack of accountability and oversight at the Securities and Exchange Commission [March 9]. Thousands of hardworking people lost their jobs and homes as a result of the incredible nonfeasance, misfeasance and probably malfeasance of Christopher Cox...
Although the hedge-fund industry has long relished the light touch of lawmakers and financial regulators, a new era is dawning for largely unregulated financial institutions, and rightly so. The huge systemic risks associated with hedge funds and other unregulated firms in the financial system have a ruinous potential in...