Topic: Wall Street
Longtime NYC congresswoman faces strong bid by newcomer with Wall Street at center stageIt's an audacious gamble, even with anti-establishment fever running high: a former hedge fund lawyer trying to unseat a nine-term congresswoman popular in her district.As political newcomer Reshma Saujani ...
In January 2007 four small-time fund managers with few Wall Street connections invited themselves to a Las Vegas conference of players in the mortgage-bond business. The crisis books make clear, too, that Washington's extraordinary rescues of Wall Street have eroded much of ...
SPIN METER: In fresh wave of bailouts, Obama plan directs $30 billion to aid community banksPeople are fed up with bank bailouts that risk taxpayer billions. The government's apparent solution: call them something else.Congress is at work on a new program that ...
The breach of trust in recent years by our government and major financial institutions has been enormously damaging on many levels. With the Treasury at the helm, the government careened from one crisis to the next with inconsistent ad hoc solutions, which ...
Autodesk sells the design software used for major infrastructure and construction projects. Here he chats with Forbes Associate Editor Victoria Barret about trends in real estate, stimulus spending and China--and the divide between Wall Street and Main Street. Since you became CEO ...
DOES THE PASSAGE OF financial reform mean the end of lying, stealing and cheating on Wall Street? The very prospect, we must admit, caused us a few fitful nights ever since Scott Brown and the two ladies who represent Maine in the ...
U.S.-backed housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their broken business models, are notoriously absent from the U.S. financial rules overhaul close to becoming law. Inclusion of housing finance reform would bog down the broadest Wall Street reform since the ...
September 15 marked the colossal failure of one of Wall Street's largest institutions, sending the financial markets into a state of chaos. But has "Joe the Plumber" really been adversely affected by allocating TARP funds to institutions like Goldman Sachs? Banks Repaid ...
The US Senate gave final approval to the most sweeping rewrite of Wall Street rules since the Great Depression of the 1930s, handing President Barack Obama a legacy-shaping political victory.Obama, due to sign the 2,300-page bill into law next week, promised that ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Treasury will not launch its revamp of housing finance until next year as it concentrates first on swift implementation of financial reform legislation, the Treasury's number two official said on Thursday.U.S.-backed housing finance giants Fannie Mae and ...
