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Not wise to bail out reckless investors
Last summer, the bill started to come due on our debt-fueled economy. We should have let it - and let reckless speculators, subprime lenders and banks finally get what they had coming. But instead, the… -
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Investing 101
People wanting basic advice about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, retirement planning, and tax strategies may find that picking a good book seems as daunting as deciding what to do with their savings and investments. Investing… -
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Wall Street Versus America
Gary Weiss, a business reporter, looks of what really happens in every corner of the financial system: from Internet tip sites and boiler rooms, to fee-happy mutual funds and hedge funds, to the bluest of… -
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Ponzi
Who was Ponzi, the man whose name is synonymous with the classic “rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul” scam where money from new investors goes to reward earlier ones? (It’s the kind of scheme that Bernard Madoff recently used to… -
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You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man
Since the Bernard Madoff “Ponzi scheme” scandal broke, shocking investors and the Wall Street community, this insider’s guide to investment rip-offs, scams and con artists has been in demand. The book, published in the late… -
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Reforming the financial system
On Monday, the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, President Obama is scheduled to deliver a major speech on the financial crisis. He should take justifiable pride in some of the aggressive steps… -
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Can a mutual fund be too popular?
The nation’s biggest mutual funds have grown so huge that they are raising the question of whether they’ll get tripped up by their own girth. The largest U.S. fund today, Pimco Total Return, now tips… -
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The inflatable mortgage loan pool
Amid the legal battles between investors who lost money in mortgage securities and the investment banks that sold the stuff, one thing seems clear: the investment banks appear to be winning a good many of… -
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SEC considers overhauling rules to help investors
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Mary Schapiro said Friday that the agency could overhaul how shareholders obtain information and make decisions about the management of companies they invest in. Schapiro said at a conference in… -
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Reaching acceptance over stock losses
You may not see a lot of black armbands or be wearing one yourself. But many of us are in deep mourning — for big stock losses going back to 2008. And our sorrow is… -
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Small investors flee stock market
Renewed economic uncertainty is testing Americans’ generation-long love affair with the stock market. Investors withdrew a staggering $33.12 billion from domestic stock market mutual funds in the first seven months of this year, according to… -
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Unions give Wall Street protesters some oomph
Unions gave a high-profile boost to the long-running protest against Wall Street and economic inequality Wednesday, with their members joining thousands of protesters in a lower Manhattan march. Across the country, students at several colleges…
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