Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Finance. Show all posts
Thursday, January 20, 2011

Gordon S. Murray, Daniel C. Goldie: The Investment Answer

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In January 2011, Ron Lieber posted “Gordon Murray, Former Investment Banker, Dies at 60” on a blog for The New York Times. Gordon Murray, t...
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Saturday, January 15, 2011

#243: The Frankenstein Mortgage from NPR: Planet Money Podcast

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The 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage -- the bedrock of American home ownership -- is a weird loan. In an ordinary market, you'd have to pay ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Andrew Ross Sorkin: Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System... and Themselves

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"Too big to fail" is a term of art in regulation and public policy that refers to businesses dealing with market complications rel...
Saturday, January 8, 2011

Liaquat Ahamed: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

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Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed is a 2009 nonfiction book about events leading up to and culminating in the Great Depression as told th...
Monday, January 3, 2011

Greg Farrell: Crash of the Titans: Greed, Hubris, the Fall of Merrill Lynch, and the Near-Collapse of Bank of America

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From the book's promotional website: Greg Farrell is a correspondent for the Financial Times. In January 2009, he broke the news that Me...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Perry Mehrling: The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort

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The author was recently quoted as stating that the United States' Federal Reserve Bank was acting, in fact, as the world's central b...
Sunday, December 26, 2010

John C. Bogle: Don't Count on It!: Reflections on Investment Illusions, Capitalism, "Mutual" Funds, Indexing, Entrepreneurship, Idealism, and Heroes

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In December of 2010, Seeking Alpha, a premium financial newsletter, wrote this about the book and author: Don't Count on It!: Reflection...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Charlie Rose's Friday, October 22, 2010 Conversation with Steven Rattner

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CHARLIE ROSE: Steve Rattner is here. He was the leader of President Obama’s taskforce on restructuring the automobile industry in the wak...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Robert Reich: Equality, Democracy, and "Aftershock" from On Point with Tom Ashbrook Podcast

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Robert Reich talks about the economy and the perfect storm - he says - that threatens American democracy. His new book is "Aftershock....
Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Maria Bartiromo on Covering the Financial Meltdown from WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show by listenerservices@wnyc.org (WNYC, New York Public Radio)

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Maria Bartiromo, CNBC anchor, discusses her new book The Weekend That Changed Wall Street: An Eyewitness Account and what's it's be...
Thursday, October 14, 2010

The Colbert Report - October 13, 2010 - Austan Goolsbee

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October 13, 2010 - Austan Goolsbee Views: 158,329 Aired: 10/13/10 Episode 06132 Stephen questions whether it's fair to tax the rich, and...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

On The Money with Chris DiSimio from 91.7 WVXU from On The Money with Chris DiSimio from 91.7 WVXU Podcast

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Chris DeSimio is On the Money with NBC' Today Show financial editor Jean Chatzky about her new book, Not Your Parent's Money Book, a...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Colbert Report - September 29, 2010 - Steven Rattner

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September 29, 2010 - Steven Rattner Views: 135,162 Aired: 09/29/10 Episode 06124 The koala population suffers from Chlamydia, and Steven Rat...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Charlie Rose's Monday, September 13, 2010 conversation with Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times

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CHARLIE ROSE: Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the fall of Lehman Brothers, the event that helped create the deepest recession sinc...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Obama to Propose Tax Break for Businesses from The Takeaway: Early Edition by feedback@thetakeaway.org (Public Radio International and WNYC Radio)

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Midterm elections are now less than two months away, and this week President Obama’s agenda is all about the economy. In Milwaukee on Monday...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Charlie Rose's Wednesday, July 14, 2010 conversation with Author Sebastian Mallaby

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CHARLIE ROSE: In 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones scraped together $100,000 to set up the first hedge fund. Sixty years later in 2009, the top ...
Thursday, July 1, 2010

Michael Lewis, Author, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine" from C-SPAN - Q and A

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In his new book, "The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine," Michael Lewis tells the story of several key players in the subprim...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Damien Hoffman: 6 Ways to Avoid Black Swans from Huffington Post, The - Blog by Damien Hoffman

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Can we avoid black swans? Ken Posner -- veteran Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) securities analyst and author of the book Stalking the Black Swan:...
Tuesday, June 1, 2010

'The Big Short' a hot read on Hill from POLITICO Top Stories by Marin Cogan

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In the midst of a floor speech on regulatory reform, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) interrupted himself for a sort of commercial ...