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...major mafia investigations and Law & Order reruns. But they're also the tactics used by federal authorities against a slew of dark-suited desk jockeys accused in Wall Street's largest insider-trading scandal in decades. Authorities say billionaire hedge-fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, founder of the Galleon Group, and 19 others illegally used secret information about public companies to inform investments that yielded some $60 million in profits over the past several years. The defendants, who also include traders, lawyers and executives at firms such as IBM and McKinsey & Co., now face hefty fines and years behind bars. (Read...
...William Duer capitalized on his government connections to make bets on the country's debt. His investments eventually soured, however, and Duer's bankruptcy brought down much of New York's economy in 1792; he died a few years later in debtors' prison. (The charter members of the Buttonwood Group, the predecessor of the New York Stock Exchange, first assembled to formulate a response to that market crash.) Nineteenth century railroad magnate Jay Gould didn't try to hide his flagrant insider trading; profits from buying and selling stock in his own companies helped make him one of the wealthiest...
...group of developed and developing economies that has taken over the G-8 industrialized countries as the decision maker in global economic affairs, agreed over the weekend to adopt a detailed timetable in order to coordinate the world's stimulus exit. The first steps are slated to be announced by the end of January next year. "If we put on the brakes too quickly we will weaken the economy and the financial system," warned U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, "and the ultimate cost of the crisis will be greater." (See how to plan for retirement...
...findings are presented in a chapter of a new book, Eyetracking Web Usability, by Jakob Nielsen and Kara Pernice of the consultancy Nielsen Norman Group. Don't let the bland title fool you: what Nielsen and Pernice have done is track the eye movements of hundreds of people as they navigate websites, looking up advice on how to deal with heartburn, shopping for baby presents, picking cell-phone features, learning about Mikhail Baryshnikov. By bouncing infrared beams off a person's retinas and recording head movements with a camera, the researchers were able to deduce what sort of ads garner...
...pictures of a diverse group of American teens...