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Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail'

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 the crisis.

David Carr and the death of aspiration

David Carr buries the business magazines in a shallow grave in The New York Times Monday, but there are any number of reasons to be skeptical of this broad and gloomy diagnosis.

Greg Zuckerman on 'The Greatest Trade Ever'

Greg Zuckerman adds another volume to to the growing stack of tomes on the financial crisis -- a phenomenon that's beginning to resemble its own bubble.

John Gapper and his tripartite split

John Gapper in the FT offered up his own tripartite split of finance between utilities, casinos and 'people who visit casinos to gamble,' that is, asset management.

Big names, plus Munchau, on regulatory reform

Sandy Weill and Wall Street analyst Judah Kraushaar tackle financial reform in a Wall Street Journal column that reads like it was cobbled together over lunch at the Four Seasons.

The feds (sort of) crack down on pay

The news that the feds will come down hard on seven institutions that are current recipients of federal bailout money has generally elicited cheers.

Breaking up the banks, continued

You think the future is predictable? How much would you have wagered a few weeks ago that breaking up the banks would be roiling the Zeitgeist? But it is.

Mark Thoma on sane markets

Mark Thoma over at The Economist's View last week wrote a short essay that was long on good sense.

Bruce Wasserstein 1947-2009

Bruce Wasserstein did deals, a lot of them, in a career that's already being called 'legendary.' The Bruce we knew at The Deal reveled in the mechanics of the media. We'll miss him.

Truth, lies and the regulators

In the roll call of Sisyphean tasks, none must be greater than the attempt by regulators to sanitize the monumental flows of information that cascade through the markets every day.

Debating the question of bank size

The arguments for bigger is better in banking have long lost most of their persuasive power.

Sorkin on what happened after Lehman

The excerpt from Andrew Ross Sorkin's 'Too Big to Fail' is now on the newsstands in the new issue of Vanity Fair. Because it's an excerpt, it's a little hard to tell how much it reflects the book.

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