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 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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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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Richard Bove says Goldman Sachs will make a lot of donations to try to assuage anger against the firm.
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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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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'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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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 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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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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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' 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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Managing your shareholder base

Growth companies and their PE sponsors should be wary of the pitfalls that arise when they layer on tiers of preferred stock.

Easing the stress of distressed M&A

Corporate buyers face numerous complexities when trying to identify the right moment to purchase a distressed asset.

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

Beneath the veneer of Wall Streeters beats the same heart, stirred by the same determinants of behavior.