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Crisis Retro

CDOs are maybe not coming back, after all

Regulators say AIG Financial Products is having trouble managing risk again

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Shahien Nasiripour: Regulators allege AIG FP may have failed to properly measure and manage risk, misled supervisors and investors... http://t.co/WB7fz1El2a

Crisis Retro

Synthetic CDOs are back -- in a trend story kind of way

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Lauren Young: CDOs: One of Wall Street's Riskiest Bets Returns http://t.co/FeCHLi8gx8

A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange

Crisis Retro

The only group that's skirted criticism over the financial crisis? Shareholders

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Matt Levine: Shareholders are selfish jerks

Crisis Retro

Bank of America and Wells Fargo agreed to end mortgage abuses, then didn't

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Crisis Retro

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

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Crisis Retro

Nearly six years after the crisis, ratings shopping is very much alive and well

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Crisis Retro

With a $59 billion dividend, Fannie Mae will help the US avoid the debt ceiling (for a few months)

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Monzione folds his glasses as he speaks outside of his home in Wolfeboro

Crisis Retro

"The subprime bond is rising from the ashes. The subprime borrower isn't"

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Crisis Retro

Goldman's "Fabulous Fab" is now pursuing a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago

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Justin Wolfers: "Fabulous Fab" is now an econ PhD student @UChicago. Would you trust research from someone with his unethical past?nhttp://t.co/YqQ25iGdgK

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Unscrupulous companies charge students $1,600 for loan help they could get for free

Oxpeckers
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"The biggest rule of clickbait: No one wants to read about finance"

UGH
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Female labor participation increasingly comes at the cost of being a mother

The Fed
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The full Fed minutes from May's meeting: No change, "fiscal policy is restraining growth"

Hilarious
6/19
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"The world can certainly use more legal satire": an amazing cease and desist response

Tech
6/19

Only the rich can afford to be early adopters, but they get stuck with bad products

Remuneration
6/19
2 Sources

In the UK, per capita banker pay is already higher than it was before the crisis

Alpha
6/19
3 Sources

The cost of sitting on cash

Meta-Takedowns
6/19
10 Sources

Nate Silver takes down Politico's attempted takedown of him

Housing
6/19

REITs aren't quite so hot anymore

Viral
6/19

Clapping is a "social contagion," researchers say

healthcare
6/18
1 Sources

For the first time in almost 40 years, medical costs fell in May

interesting
6/18
1 Sources

The case for convenient disabled parking, and against free disabled parking

The Fed
6/18

The US recovery by the numbers: not quite there yet

Data Points
6/18
1 Sources

Internship lawsuits are officially a trend

Scandals
6/18
2 Sources

Watch Jon Hilsenrath destroy Rick Santelli on CNBC

US consumers’ health-care costs fell in May for the first time in almost four decades

A really good preview of the Fed's big announcement today

The immigration bill will cut the deficit by $200 billion over the next 10 years, CBO says

Crisis Retro

CDOs are maybe not coming back, after all

Regulators say AIG Financial Products is having trouble managing risk again

Synthetic CDOs are back -- in a trend story kind of way

The only group that's skirted criticism over the financial crisis? Shareholders

Bank of America and Wells Fargo agreed to end mortgage abuses, then didn't

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

Nearly six years after the crisis, ratings shopping is very much alive and well

With a $59 billion dividend, Fannie Mae will help the US avoid the debt ceiling (for a few months)

"The subprime bond is rising from the ashes. The subprime borrower isn't"

Goldman's "Fabulous Fab" is now pursuing a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago

Unscrupulous companies charge students $1,600 for loan help they could get for free

"The biggest rule of clickbait: No one wants to read about finance"

Female labor participation increasingly comes at the cost of being a mother

The full Fed minutes from May's meeting: No change, "fiscal policy is restraining growth"

"The world can certainly use more legal satire": an amazing cease and desist response

Only the rich can afford to be early adopters, but they get stuck with bad products

In the UK, per capita banker pay is already higher than it was before the crisis

The cost of sitting on cash

Nate Silver takes down Politico's attempted takedown of him

REITs aren't quite so hot anymore

Clapping is a "social contagion," researchers say

For the first time in almost 40 years, medical costs fell in May

The case for convenient disabled parking, and against free disabled parking

The US recovery by the numbers: not quite there yet

Internship lawsuits are officially a trend

How the IRS keeps the $4.3 trillion nonprofit world secret