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The end of the Fed as we know it?

[Posted on November 20, 2009 at 12:27 PM]

So the beginning of the end for the Federal Reserve we've known for almost a century has begun with Rep. Ron Paul's proposal to audit the central bank inching closer
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AIG's Nan Shan sale on hold?

[Posted on November 19, 2009 at 5:12 PM]

AIG's biggest sale yet, the $2.7 billion disposal of Taiwan's Nan Shan Life, has reportedly come up against regulatory hurdles because the buyer is Chinese.
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Deal Economy 2010: Harvey Miller on Lehman, GM

[Posted on November 19, 2009 at 11:03 AM]

Instead of allowing Lehman Brothers to collapse, the government could have stood by the beleaguered bank and helped it unwind slowly, bankruptcy lawyer Harvey Miller of Weil Gotshal said.
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Deal Economy 2010: Bove on Goldman's $500M donation

[Posted on November 19, 2009 at 8:25 AM]

Richard Bove says Goldman Sachs will make a lot of donations to try to assuage anger against the firm.
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Deal Economy 2010: Moody's outlook

[Posted on November 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM]

Ben Garber, economist for Moody's Capital Markets, said he does not think near-term inflation as a result of the government's stimulus and recovery efforts will be a serious problem.
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Deal Economy 2010: How Bove sees it

[Posted on November 18, 2009 at 12:47 PM]

According to Rochdale Securities analyst Richard Bove, Congress is handling the reorganization of the banking sector the wrong way and the unintended consequences will be great.
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GMAC board troubles BofA's CEO search

[Posted on November 17, 2009 at 3:02 PM]

GMAC's ouster of CEO Alvaro de Molina does not bode well for his candidacy to succeed Bank of America's CEO Ken Lewis.
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Trio of video conversations with Rodgin Cohen

[Posted on November 16, 2009 at 4:02 PM]

Rodgin Cohen, dubbed the 'trauma surgeon of Wall Street' by The New York Times, sat down for video interviews with The Deal, sharing his reflections on 'the madness we saw
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Three more banks fail, bringing total to 123

[Posted on November 16, 2009 at 11:47 AM]

Three more banks failed this weekend, bringing the grand total of bank failures this year to 123. It's likely that bank failures could reach 150 by the end of the
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Dollar General, Rue21 today. Toys 'R' Us next?

[Posted on November 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM]

The successful IPOs of PE-backed retailers Dollar General, Rue21, Vitamin Shoppe and Dollarama will likely encourage more PE portfolio companies to go public. KKR-backed Toys "R" Us is a candidate,
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Corzine addresses BofA rumors

[Posted on November 12, 2009 at 2:35 PM]

The rumor mongering about the possibility of Jon Corzine replacing Ken Lewis as CEO of Bank of America has reached a point where the former Goldman Sachs CEO has formally
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Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail'

[Posted on November 12, 2009 at 10:06 AM]

Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail' is a big, ambitious book that tries to establish by sheer accumulation of detail and anecdote primacy to explain what exactly happened amid
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