I get requests from publishers to link to, and/or reproduce, content here all the time. Copyright law is pretty clear as to what is...
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You mean not following Federal banking laws is a crime? Who knew?! "Federal agencies are intensifying a criminal investigation of...
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Spitzer has officially resigned. I was trying to come up with a clever headline for his resignation, but the best I could come up with...
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From one of the comments on our earlier post: Get ready for Monica-Bill redux The Media gorging, raking mucks Oozing glee from all their...
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Both ABC and Bloomberg TV, citing sources, said Spitzer was going to announce his resignation as Governor of NY. Briefing.com had...
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Have a look at this run of transactions in the stock of Ambac (ABK) on Friday: > Source: Bloomberg Data Services >Here’s why...
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Why am I not at all surprised about this? "The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing subprime lender Countrywide Financial...
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A quick post before I head over to CNBC: Two NYT articles caught my eye this morning on the theme of consumer bankruptcy: •...
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Today’s WSJ had a run of Real Estate related articles that quite frankly, were rather surprising in their gentle naiveté. The...
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From Tuesday’s WSJ: "In an acknowledgment that the system it used to rate billions of dollars of mortgage-related securities...
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