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We Expect More From An Oracle

These days, the supposed saint of the investing world, Warren Buffett, looks as much a sinner as anyone else on Wall Street.[More...]

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Three Strikes And You’re Out For UBS

Regardless of risk, Wall Street will sell whatever products to whomever it wants whenever it likes.[More...]

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Investors: Beware Of Etfs

Investors need to understand Exchange Traded Funds–”ETFs”–before they jump in thinking they are just like mutual funds. Your broker or adviser may have pitched the product to you already. It’s the...

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Wall Street–At Last–Ponies Up

Wall Street is finally paying—in big heaps of cash—for its sins of the mortgage-backed securities debacle.[More...]

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Why Wall Street Sharks Swim Free

It’s no secret that the feds have gone soft on busting Wall Street titans and other executives at the center of the credit crisis.[More...]

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Why Can’t Wall Street Be Honest With The Public?

Below is the article done by Securities Attorney Jake Zamansky on 09/13/11 on the Forbes web site.[More...]

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Justice For Bank Of America, Or A Whitewash?

On the eve of trial, Bank of America (really its current shareholders) paid a staggering $2.4 billion to settle an investor lawsuit which claimed that BOA lied about Merrill Lynch’s dire financial...

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Calling the Ghost of Eliot Spitzer

Why has it taken regulators years to bring an action against JP Morgan and the other banks whose mortgage-backed securities machine blew a hole in our economy we’re still trying to patch? Since the...

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The JP Morgan London Whale: Now It’s Criminal?

Just six months ago they were riding high. Indeed, they were Masters of the Universe, dominating an obscure credit derivatives market. The JPMorgan execs were making money for the firm hand over fist...

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Plaintiffs Appeal Proshares Court Victory

The ProShares lawsuit victory in defending the risk and operating disclosures of its inverse and leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) may be short-lived as an appeal is in progress. The lawsuit was...

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The JOBS Act: A License To Steal?

The JOBS Act passed this past year was touted as legislation that would promote jobs by lowering the bar and investor disclosure standards for new companies with less than $1 billion dollars in assets...

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Buckle Your Seatbelts, Here Comes the Fiscal Cliff!

Very few investors saw the 2000 Tech Bubble crash or the 2008 Financial Crisis coming. While anyone and everyone is closely watching the looming “fiscal cliff”, that doesn’t mean Average Joe investors...

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SEC V. SAC: The SEC’S Acid Test

After decades of whispers that Stevie Cohen and SAC Capital were engaging in insider trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission has now sent a Wells notice advising the firm that the SEC is...

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In Defense Of Class Actions

In the movie “A Civil Action” John Travolta played a scrappy lawyer who risks his whole practice to bring a class action case against a chemical company that polluted the water and poisoned residents...

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2013: Investors Should Expect More Pain From Wall Street, Not Less

The broad market is managing to post gains in 2012, with the S&P 500 Stock Index up more than 12% and the Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index up more than 4% as of December 27. These results...

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Falling Apple's Price Causes Collateral Damage

As the price of Apple has declined from over $700 per share to below $500 per share, it’s not just Apple shareholders who are feeling blue.[More...]

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Wall Street's Used Car Lot

A former Jefferies & Co. mortgage bond trader was accused of cheating customers by using unscrupulous sales practices which the Securities and Exchange Commission called “unfit for a used car lot,”...

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The Chickens Come Home To Roost For Standard & Poor's

The U.S. Justice Department announced plans to file civil fraud charges against Standard & Poor’s (S&P) relating to the atrocious ratings that Standard & Poor’s gave to toxic subprime...

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RBS Whacks The Libor Scoundrels

What in the world is going on here? The Royal Bank of Scotland (”RBS”) actually made the scoundrels who engaged in Libor shenanigans pay for what they did!RBS, the latest bank embroiled in the Libor...

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Traders Say The Darnedest Things

During the stock research scandal of 2000, the world was amazed that Merrill Lynch superstar stock analyst Henry Blodget would actually put in writing that he considered the stocks that he was touting...

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