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Entries tagged "Wall Street"

Editor's letter: Nov. 16, 2009

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

Irresistible glam

For 10 years, we have watched the media swing wildly in its view of Wall Street. With Oliver Stone back in town, it's clear nothing ever changes.

Editor's note: Aug. 10, 2009

Wall Street is a living embodiment of what Joseph Schumpeter famously called creative destruction.

Just like starting over

A blueprint for the new Wall Street firm.

A year unlike any other

Turmoil. Chaos. Bailouts. Conventional deals in 2008 were rare. Many of those that mattered, like Bear Stearns and J.P. Morgan Chase, involved the government.

The Trouble with TARP

Geithner is sticking with Paulson's flawed remedy. Or maybe he isn't. Stay tuned for details.

M&A 2.0

The reports of dealmaking's demise are grossly exaggerated.

Transactions: Nov. 10, 2008

Capitulation is in the air. But investors are caught between nattering nabobs of the Great Depression and Warren Buffett. Result: paralysis.

Fat cats at play

CNN tackles the subject of Wall Street greed and guilt and ends up at a cigar party. Anyone seen Dick Fuld?

Transactions: Oct. 27, 2008

There's only one big problem as we redesign our regulatory system: us. How do we insure regulation doesn't get captured by the public?

Enter the giants

As bank consolidation accelerates, large questions await the day the crisis begins to recede.

Making do and doing good

Lehman Brothers was a very significant City Harvest contributor.

Transactions: Oct. 6, 2008

Wall Street may be dead but delveraging looks very much alive. How long, however, after the crisis passes will Americans restrain their inner Wall Street?

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Congress suddenly awakens to peril after 13 months of crisis, then needs to act in a week. You don't need to let Wall Street off the hook to realize that Washington is hanging there as well.

Wall Street's passages

Bear gone. Lehman gone. Merrill to BofA. Goldman and Morgan Stanley under fire. Is the Street dead?

And how now, New York?

Labor's Michael Dolfman offers an assessment of how bad things are on Wall Street.

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So far, at least, Treasury has set the agenda for financial reform. But even if the Fed becomes a super-regulator, a number of difficult, perhaps unresolvable regulatory conundrums will persist.

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Markets are morally relative; politics is not. Looking back over the last five decades on Wall Street makes you realize how standards of "good" or "bad" shift and move as markets and risk rise and fall.

A short disquisition on the joys of naked shorting

Talk of banning shorting is both stupid and practically impossible. But naked shorting is a very different beast.

Feast and famine on Wall Street

These days, there's not too much champagne flowing on Wall Street.