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S&P: Can It Survive a Suit for Fraud?

February 5th, 2013
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Econintersect:  There are widespread reports that Standard & Poors will be charged with fraud in a civil suit by the US Department of Justice and an unspecified number of U.S. states.   Shares of S&P's parent corporation, McGraw-Hill (NYSE:MH… more »

Tags: cdo, collateralized debt obligations, john lounsbury, mcgraw-hill, mcgraw-hill bankruptcy, mortgage backed securities, mortgages, standard& poors

Yves Smith Reports Insiders Say FCIC was Set Up to Fail

January 30th, 2011
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Yves Smith reports that non-partisan staff members have told her that the FCIC never took an appropriately deep and broad view of their investigation. more »

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SecondMarket and SharesPost: The New Market

January 23rd, 2011
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SecondMarket  and SharesPost are the two largest private company stock exchanges.  SecondMarket is an SEC regulated broker-dealer.  SharesPost operates under a different business model as a “passive bulletin board”. more »

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