Word: walls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Steven Begleiter isn't the only Wall Streeter to have hit pay dirt at the poker tables in Las Vegas. But he might become the first to claim the game's biggest prize - and in an odd way he owes it all to his former employer, the collapsed investment house Bear Stearns...
...unlikely combination: an intellectual Wall Streeter. After graduating from the University of Michigan, Wasserstein enrolled at Harvard Law School at 19 and worked with Ralph Nader's "Raiders" before becoming a corporate lawyer. But it was as a banker--at First Boston, then at the boutique firm he founded, Wasserstein Perella, and finally as CEO of Lazard--that he made his mark. Wasserstein presided over the rise of the "Big Deal" (the title of a book he published in 1997), dreamed up takeover tactics like the Pac-Man defense and was sought by CEOs for his creative ideas on offense...
While reminiscing about his own experience at the Law School—from which he graduated in 1958—Nader rejected what he called a commercial bias in the curriculum, which he connected with the recent bailouts on Wall Street...
...Madoff victims" campaign by industries ranging from life insurance to real estate. A common agenda item for Madoff-victim groups, say their leaders, is the relentless mailings for offers like life settlement or selling a life-insurance policy to a third party for a profit. (See TIME's Wall Street covers...
...House for 18 years before being elected to the Senate in 1998, Schumer gained notice in New York and Washington circles for his workmanlike skill at championing consumer causes and knack for getting in front of cameras. He was the first Democrat to attract millions of dollars from Wall Street, and not surprisingly, he has been one of the few Democrats who have championed Wall Street's interests in Washington from his perch at the Banking Committee. That has put Schumer in an awkward position in the wake of the financial crisis, as his colleagues have sought to punish...