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That may be the least-SEO-friendly headline of all time, but hey, we're not the Huffington Post! This from the Journal's Fed story today strikes me as something that's crying out for more coverage: The ultimate outcome could shape finance as m...
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The new-hire newsroom memo has long been a hotbed of puffery—a place where journalists consistently put aside their cynicism and engage in heartwarming rounds of fulsome praise. Nothing against Rob Hunter, believe me, but this memo from ...
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William D. Cohan pleads for a Goldman convict to be pardoned
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Last week, The Wall Street Journal ran an odd story on its front page headlined "Hedge Funds Pound Euro"—something Felix Salmon saw as the latest evidence of "the sensationalist WSJ." I did, too. That was because the headline implied tha...
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Bloomberg editor Amanda Bennett has a remarkable story today recounting her husband's battle with cancer, how much it cost to extend his life, and what it means for the health-care system: Terence and I didn’t have to think about money, allo...
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Secretary of Audit Dean Starkman has often criticized the press for its lackluster coverage of regulation, while acknowledging that it's gotten somewhat better since the crisis. Still, there's a lot that I, for one, didn't know until reading ...
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Barry Ritholtz points to this ludicrous CNBC segment where everyone gangs up on Janet Tavakoli for pointing out the obvious: the housing bubble was inflated in no small part by predatory lending. Now CNBC isn't exactly where you go for comfort...
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Thomas Frank reviews an interesting-looking book on monopolies in the American economy—one that argues that there are more than you might think. Of particular interest to us is Frank dropping a bit of business-press criticism in there: W...
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The New York Times tries to play catch-up on the proposal to put the Consumer Financial Protection Agency inside the Federal Reserve—an idea we said yesterday bordered on parody and which Barney Frank called a "bad joke"—and which ...
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The Washington Post's Steven Pearlstein takes on corporate welfare at the local level today and shows how such a column should be done. Thomas Friedman, as usual, shows how not to. Northrop Grumman, the giant defense contractor, is moving its ...
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