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In 1992, I was 26 and already spending my fair share of time online. For several years, I'd been a satisfied customer of America Online. Although I liked the service, I decided not to buy shares of the company at the initial public offering that year.
Tags: AOL, rules breaker, Wall Street, great companies, Microsoft, New York City, Private equity, Stock, Rate of return, Venture capital, Stock market, Corporate finance, Financial ratios, Business Finance
Party leaders weigh the benefits and risks of catering to “tea party” protesters like these, who dislike the House health care bill. Whatever else it said about America, her return brought into focus a big question for Republicans as they watched the...
Tags: Republican Party, Ms. Palin, House, Republican National Committee, wall street, Buchanan, Conservatism in the United States, Haley Barbour, William Jennings Bryan, John McCain, Political parties in the United States, Populism, Sarah Palin, Politics
Once there was a simpler time, when pretty much everything that happened in the financial world had a straightforward explanation. Take the crash of Oct. 19, 1987. In one day, the stock market lost more than one-fifth of its value.
Tags: conspiracy theories, wall street, street conspiracy, New York City, Paranoia, Pi, Richard Hofstadter, 9/11 conspiracy theories, Conspiracy, Conspiracy theory, Conspiracy fiction
Bloomberg L.P. plans to close its Bloomberg Press operation, a small unit that publishes books, following its acquisition of BusinessWeek magazine, spokeswoman for the parent company said on Friday afternoon. The division published a handful of titles...
Tags: Bloomberg L.P., Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg Press, Wall Street, New York City, Bloomberg, Business Finance
One of the few welcome consequences of the global recession has been a modest upsurge in economic literacy, or at least interest. That's not to be exaggerated; most people still don't know their asset-backed securities from the elbows, but at least we're...
Tags: Lehmans, Great Depression, Alan Greenspan, Keynes, wall street, U S Federal Reserve, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Andrew Mellon, Hank Paulson, central bankers, Jacksonville, Ben Bernanke, Financial crisis, John Maynard Keynes, Business cycle, Financial crises, Recessions
A pair of new government reports released this week paint a startling picture of where the country is, more than a year after the economic meltdown. On Tuesday, the New York Comptroller’s Office said Wall Street profits are set to exceed the record set...
Tags: Goldman Sachs, wall street, Amy Goodman, Robert Scheer, New York City, Lloyd Blankfein, Blankfein, American International Group, Rockefeller Center, YES Network
Chrome operating system designed to be used with netbooks specifically made for the browser. One neat feature about the OS is that you turn on the PC and -- whoosh! -- you're immediately surfing the Internet...HPQ ) , Google hopes to drive more traffic...
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T op Wall Street talent continues to find its way back to Toronto, as private equity fund West Face Capital landed a veteran of Morgan Stanley this week. West Face, a Toronto-based fund that’s been an active and constructive player in a number of restructurings,...
Tags: Mr. Carty, Morgan Stanley, wall street, New York City, Private equity, Investment banks, Primary dealers, House of Morgan, Business Finance
Bachus competed with Rep. Richard Baker (R-La.) for the spot and won after arguing that he has a better working relationship with interest groups and with chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), according to the Almanac of American Politics . Prior to that time,...
Tags: Spencer Bachus, Congress, House Financial Services Committee, housing financial, wall street, political action, commercial banks, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Growth & Prosperity PAC, action committee, Birmingham, Bailout, Citigroup, Finance, Financial services, Hedge, Politics, Derivatives, United States House Committee on Financial Services, Business Finance
A Congressional panel approved a bill that would put the traditionally independent U.S...Fed officials opposed the measure and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank sought to soften the blow by taking the central bank's interest rate...
Tags: House Financial Services Committee, Federal Reserve, Tim Geithner, House Democratic Caucus, Congressional Democrats, White House, house panel, Capitol Hill, wall street, Ron Paul, Washington, Central bank, Interest rate, Monetary policy, Federal Reserve System, Federal Reserve Transparency Act, Business Finance, Politics, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Christopher Dodd, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, United States Secretary of the Treasury, American International Group, Council on Foreign Relations, Group of Thirty, Timothy Geithner, Bailout, economics, Subprime mortgage crisis, Bank, Government policies and the subprime mortgage crisis, Subprime mortgage crisis solutions debate, Primary dealers, House of Morgan, Morgan Stanley