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The last Dow record: My, how things have changed
Remember the world on Oct. 9, 2007? That was when the Dow Jones industrial average last set a record high. It was a headier time back then: pre-financial crisis, pre-bailouts, pre-Great Recession. The stock market still felt like a party. The economy,...Tags: Fannie Mae, Stock Market, Steve Carell, Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Financial Markets
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Bernard Madoff urges investigators to keep pursuing big banks
Imprisoned money manager Bernard Madoff is encouraging those investigating his massive Ponzi scheme to keep going after banks he alleges were complicit in the fraud. Madoff, who is serving a 150-year sentence for defrauding investors out of billions...
Tags: The New York Times, Fox Business Network (tv network)
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MarksJarvis: 'Just trust me' allure of hedge funds gives way to 'buyer beware'
The magic is gone … the infatuation over. Wealthy investors who thought a few years ago that brainy hedge fund managers would show them the money have shed their rose-colored glasses. Individuals are no longer enamored with the funds, and for...
Tags: Stock Market, Credit Ratings, Finance, Yale University, Economy, Business and Finance
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Letters: Are all liars created equal?
Re "Like him, we are all liars," Opinion, Jan. 19 Not all lies are of the same breadth, depth and impact. Size does matter. By his own admission, Lance Armstrong is a liar. But lying only matters if you get caught — right, Bernie Madoff? Wall...
Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong
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Durkee attorney challenges number of fraud victims listed by feds
PolitiCalKinde Durkee attorney says number of fraud victims ``overstated.''... -
He's too sexy for this spoof
Change of SubjectThe Associated Press reports: BEIJING -- The online version of China's Communist Party newspaper has hailed a report by The Onion naming North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un as the "Sexiest Man Alive" -- not realizing it is satire. The...... -
Previewing 2013's books [Google+ Hangout]
Join book critic David L. Ulin and me for a video chat about the books we're looking forward to in 2013. We'll be talking live Tuesday at 10 a.m. In part, the conversation will preview my article in Sunday's Los Angeles Times, which looks at the hot...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Google+, Rick Moody, Social Media
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The Bernard Madoff book collection: Rick Moody, Fyodor Dostoevsky
How does an author of seriously literary fiction discover one of his books was owned by Bernie Madoff, the investor who defrauded his clients of billions of dollars? He sees it listed in an auction on EBay. That's how Rick Moody came to know that Madoff's...
Tags: Michael Crichton, Lord Byron, Authors, eBay Inc., Google+
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Remarkable Woman: Kelly Richmond Pope
Most people don't start their day combing the newspaper for headlines about white-collar felons. But for Kelly Richmond Pope, it's just part of the job as a forensic accountant, and one she shares with students at DePaul University, where she is an...
Tags: Philosophy, Economy, Business and Finance, Prisons, Social Sciences, Science and Technology
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Pre-inaugural books on civics for history geeks
You’re not necessarily a history geek if you shed a tear during Steven Spielberg’s excellent biopic “Lincoln,” which relates the struggle to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and forever outlaw slavery. However, you are...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg, Daniel Day-Lewis, Rick Moody
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The SEC, from lapdog to watchdog
WASHINGTON -- In the early days of the Obama administration, I sat in a Capitol Hill hearing room and listened to Harry Markopolos, the whistle-blower in the Bernie Madoff scandal, bemoan the toothless Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC,...
Tags: Fannie Mae, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, Raj Rajaratnam
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SEC chief Mary Schapiro to step down
WASHINGTON -- Mary Schapiro said Monday she will step down as chairwoman of the Securities and Exchange Commission next month. Schapiro, who has headed the Wall Street watchdog since 2009, had been widely expected to depart the commission after the...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Finance, The New York Times, Citigroup Incorporated, Economy, Business and Finance
Mar 6, 2013
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Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 26, 2012
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