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The pressure to avoid the fiscal cliff will force the White House and Congress to break the policy logjam. Continue reading
Posted on November 9, 2012 4:08 PM
A conversation with the billionaire corporate turnaround maestro on his past, his deals and his investment philosophy. Continue reading
Posted on August 31, 2012 1:00 PM
If Sandy Weill was so wrong about the merits of combining investment and commercial banks, why is he so insightful now that he's changed his mind? Continue reading
Posted on July 26, 2012 2:38 PM
Does anyone really believe that if Malcolm Gladwell had called in sick for a speaking engagement at a decision-making class at Lehman that anything would have been different at the company? Continue reading
Posted on July 25, 2012 12:24 PM
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which owns debt issued by bankrupt loan servicer, wants an examiner appointed to look into the debtor's prepetition transactions with its parent, Ally Financial Inc., among other things. Continue reading
Posted on June 7, 2012 7:51 AM
In The Deal magazine's first ranking of CD teams, we decided to set aside the biggest banks. Here's why. Continue reading
Posted on November 17, 2011 8:19 AM
If you believe in a multicausal set of affairs, you then have to establish a hierarchy: What's primary, what's secondary, what's tertiary, what meaningless? In that ordering of cause, sane and reasonable people may disagree and ambiguity may rule. Continue reading
Posted on November 3, 2011 1:05 PM
Again, the banks. What is a big bank? Public or private; a business or a utility? Or is it a kind of hybrid? How essential are big banks to the economy? These are moss-backed questions that have recurred at least since the '30s, but increasingly since 2008. Continue reading
Posted on September 13, 2011 1:24 PM
Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner offer up their long-awaited dissection of the mortgage crisis in 'Reckless Endangerment.' But beyond a warning about hybrid structures, what do the authors really want? Continue reading
Posted on August 16, 2011 10:12 AM
Among the econoblogs, there's a fascinating ongoing discussion about the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the financial crisis. Continue reading
Posted on July 18, 2011 4:33 PM
The crisis resulted not from one black swan bobbing toward us, but from the confluence of a flock of black swans, one of which was Fannie and Freddie. Continue reading
Posted on July 18, 2011 10:30 AM
Joe Nocera offers up an exit interview with outgoing FDIC head Sheila Bair in The New York Times magazine, bringing all the nightmarishly tangled issues of 2008 back again. Continue reading
Posted on July 12, 2011 1:32 PM
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