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The complaisant watchdog: how the press missed the Madoff scandal
The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times slept while Bernie Madoff swindled. [Article first published in CounterPunch. To read the original click here.] An old maxim has it that newspaper editors separate the wheat from the chaff, then … Continue reading
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Tagged chittum, counterpunch, deogun, front-running, garrity, gerald seib, gretchen morgenson, howard kurtz, madoff, markopolos, michael lewis, mort zuckerman, nexis, paul steiger, red flag, wilke
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Finance is too important to be left to Wall Street’s self-interest
Getting the American economy back on solid ground will require new financial regulations. Goldman Sachs alums aren’t the people for the job. [As published in the American Conservative on October 20, 2008.] As bewildered Americans survey the wreckage of their … Continue reading
Posted in American decline, Global economy, Service economy
Tagged bail-out, bailout, blankfein, dean baker, donna edwards, eliot spitzer, fdic, glass-steagall, gretchen morgenson, john kay, john shadegg, marcy kaptur, neel kashkari, pat choate, paul craig roberts, paulson, peter defazio, predatory lending, tsinghua, wall street, william isaac, zero-accountability
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