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Doug Chayka Can Wall Street Save Trump From Himself?
The promise and peril in the president’s surrounding himself with former bankers
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Andrew Kelly / Reuters When Bankers Started Playing With Other People's Money
In 1970, the small firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette held its IPO—and fundamentally reshaped the world of finance.
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Matt Chase / The Atlantic How Wall Street’s Bankers Stayed Out of Jail
The probes into bank fraud leading up to the financial industry’s crash have been quietly closed. Is this justice?
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Eddie Guy Can Bankers Behave?
Wall Street still has basically the same culture that led to the 2008 crash. But one big firm is trying to change—as government regulators begin to question whether financial institutions can be reformed at all.
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Matt Chase Wall Street Rises Again
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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The Lending Model That Bypasses the Bankers
Disparities in access to capital help drive inequality. For that to change, innovative new lenders have to weaken Wall Street's hold on credit.
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Matt Chase Bypassing the Bankers
How peer-to-peer lending is changing the way consumers get loans
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Emiliano Ponzi Why Wall Street Loves Houses Again
The Blackstone Group and other members of the fast-money crowd have a risky new strategy for investing in real estate—this time as landlords.
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Arnulfo Franco/AP What Exactly Is Donald Trump's Deal?
Is he a buffoon? A genius? An exploration of the man, his brand, and his chronic bluster.
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What's Really Going on With Mitt Romney's $102 Million IRA
Tax experts and private-equity executives say the question is not how he got the money there, but why he wanted to do so in the first place.
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Wesley Bedrosian How We Got the Crash Wrong
Leverage was not the problem—incentives were, and still are.
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Man vs. Machine on Wall Street: How Computers Beat the Market
Has Cliff Asness designed a computer model that can beat the market, in good times and bad?
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Steve Brodner The Final Days of Merrill Lynch
Last September, as Wall Street turned to rubble and panic threatened to come unleashed, Ken Lewis, the CEO of Bank of America, agreed to swallow one of the country’s most toxic investment houses. The deal was not altogether voluntary; as details have slowly emerged, the coercive role of the Fed and Treasury has loomed larger. What exactly happened in the weeks leading up to the merger? Did the deal save us all from economic apocalypse? And what does the government’s unprecedented role in it portend for the future of our economy?
