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Eamonn Fingleton's commentaries on the politics and economics of American decline

 
 
  • About Eamonn Fingleton
  • Thirty years of prescience
  • Books
    • In the Jaws of the Dragon
    • In Praise of Hard Industries
    • Blindside
  • Excerpt from In the Jaws of the Dragon
  • Contact
  • Wikipedia and Truth: One Author’s Experience

Tag Archives: front-running

The complaisant watchdog: how the press missed the Madoff scandal

Sandcastle Empire Posted on April 23, 2009 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 22, 2010

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 →

Posted in Press, Service economy | 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

Finance: A cuckoo in the economy’s nest

Sandcastle Empire Posted on November 28, 2008 by Eamonn FingletonNovember 20, 2010

Much of my September 1999 book In Praise of Hard Industries was quickly vindicated when America’s New Economy boom collapsed in 2000. But until recently my baleful analysis of the growth in financial services — “the economics of the cancer … Continue reading →

Posted in American decline, Global economy, Service economy | Tagged black monday, david dreman, edward wyatt, f.i.a.s.c.o., financialism, front-running, george soros, invisible foot, james glassman, john bogle, john tagliabue, kemper, michael lewis, mit commission on industrial productivity, partnoy, paul gigot, steven kaye, stop-loss, vanguard, wall street

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Categories

  • American decline
  • Book reviews
  • China
  • Global economy
  • Great East Japan Earthquake
  • History
  • International Trade
  • Japan
  • Manufacturing
  • Press
  • Service economy
  • Sino-Japanese relations
  • Trade
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