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Wall Street Roundup: Elizabeth Warren takes on banks. Paul Volcker's lobbying.
Money & CompanyPlodding along. The economy grew in the third quarter, but not enough to provide much confidence in the current economic recovery. Warren takes on banks. Elizabeth Warren, the woman charged with setting up the new consumer regulatory agency, said in...... -
Wall Street Roundup: More Fed doubting. Is that Jon Stewart?
Money & CompanyNew jobs aren't enough. 151,000 new jobs were created in October, according to new Labor Department figures, but it was not enough to move the national unemployment rate, or the markets. More Fed doubting. Despite the market's excitement about the...... -
Bernanke downplays inflation concerns tied to Middle East turmoil and Federal Reserve actions
Money & CompanyFederal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said Tuesday that a sustained rise in prices for oil and other commodities would threaten the economic recovery, but that even with the turmoil in the Middle East he did not expect inflation problems...... -
An essential ‘Inside' look
Brand X“Inside Job” (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD, $28.95; Blu-ray, $34.95) Charles Ferguson's infuriating, provocative “Inside Job” comes to home video hot on the heels of winning the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. When... -
Dodd-Frank overhaul not hurting Goldman yet
Money & CompanyA provision in last year’s financial reform bill that was supposed to hurt Wall Street banks does not yet appear to be hitting the firm that was viewed as its main target, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. The so-called Volcker rule...... -
Ben Bernanke defends Fed actions and downplays concerns about inflation at first news conference [Updated]
Money & CompanyAt a historic news conference Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke defended the central bank's unprecedented and controversial actions to stabilize and revive the economy and tried to deflect concerns that inflation could derail the... -
Pimco's Bill Gross on modern finance: The 'unmistakable odor of Mammon'
Money & CompanyPimco bond guru Bill Gross uses his monthly website column to say whatever he wants about markets, the economy and government policy, among other things. That’s the privilege you can grant yourself after you’ve built a $1.2-trillion money management... -
The new Obama to the Chamber of Commerce: Government regulations can be your friend
Top of the TicketThe Democrat begins his make-up makeover with the American business community, preparing for 2012 and the vast sum it will take to win.... -
Obama's 'czars:' Halls of fame
The Swampby Mike Dorning Kenneth Feinberg, the latest Obama administration official the news media have anointed "czar," hardly has the kind of power that would impress Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great. Feinberg, widely described as the White House's "pay........Tags: Lawrence Summers, Barack Obama, Big 3 Auto Bailout (2008), John McCain, CEO Pay
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What Obama said: His remarks on financial reform
Top of the TicketPresident Obama warned Wall Street against returning to reckless behavior of the past.... -
Volcker: Time to curb big banks' high-risk trading
Money & CompanyFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker today reiterated his call for the government to restrict the nation???s mega-banks from risky trading activities with their own capital. That idea is bound to aggravate the banks, which can profit mightily by... -
A big bear turns bull. But what is the true 'contrarian' view these days?
Money & CompanyNo one chronicled this decade's debt-fueled economic/market bubble, and its subsequent cataclysmic pop, more eloquently than Jim Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer newsletter in New York. To Wall Street (and Main Street) bears, Grant has long held...
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