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Commentary & OpinionJanuary 4, 2009 Risk MismanagementSource: Joe Nocera, New York Times THERE AREN’T MANY widely told anecdotes about the current financial crisis, at least not yet, but there’s one that made the rounds in 2007, back when the big investment banks were first starting to write down billions of dollars... January 4, 2009 How to Avoid Getting Burned by the Next Bernard MadoffSource: Washington Post A few basic checks can go a long way. Most important, know where your money goes when you hand it over. Whoever manages your portfolio should use an independent financial institution, known as a custodian, to hold your assets.... January 4, 2009 How to Repair a Broken Financial World  Source: MICHAEL LEWIS and DAVID EINHORN- New York Times Mr. Paulson must have had some reason for doing what he did. No doubt he still believes that without all this frantic activity we’d be far worse off than we are now. All we know for sure, however, is that the Treasury’s heroic... December 30, 2008 Richard W. Fisher On the Record: Working Our Way Through the Financial CrisisSource: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The most striking and truly new part of the recent financial cycle was the mistake of replacing sound judgment with the mathematization of risk. December 27, 2008 Ponzi Schemes: The Haul Gets Bigger, but the Fraud Never ChangesSource: Eduardo Porter, Editorial Observer, New York Times One hears anguished commentary about how Bernard Madoff’s gargantuan fraud epitomizes the self-defeating excess of high-tech finance — his fall the embodiment of the fall of modern capitalism. But while $50 billion is a lot of... December 22, 2008 XBRL Victory! SEC Mandate Of XBRL Extends Benefits Of Financial StandardsSource: Diane Mueller, Just Systems The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission mandate of XBRL is great news! It's a triumph for SEC Chairman Christopher Cox, who played a pivotal role in ensuring the modernization of IT infrastructure of the EDGAR filing system... December 22, 2008 Just Call This Deal Hoosier BaroqueSource: Gretchen Morganson, New York Times COLLATERAL damage from the credit crisis continues to crop up in the most unlikely places. Consider southern Indiana, where the Hoosier Energy Rural Electric Cooperative, serving 800,000 farm, small-business and residential... December 19, 2008 Ethics @ Work: Madoff's 'perfect storm' of misconductSource: Asher Meir, The Jerusalem Post The revelation that for years New York financier Bernard Madoff was running a giant Ponzi scheme, which is shaping up to be the biggest swindle in world history, displays a frightening array of ethical failures - a veritable... December 18, 2008 Commentary: Where was the SEC?Source: CNN Politics Seventy years ago in 1938, Richard Whitney, the chief executive of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), was sentenced to 40 months in Sing Sing for embezzling funds from clients, including the widows and orphans benefit fund of... December 11, 2008 Market Value Accounting Crippling EconomySource: The American Spectator Herewith the first installment of an economic symposium that Brian S. Wesbury, our economics editor, has put together in the hope that the present financial crisis can be relieved without much more pain for the taxpayer. We... [What would you find useful here?]
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