FOMC: Transcripts and Other Historical Materials, 2008
Federal Reserve
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Fed’s 2008 Transcripts Show Struggle to Grasp Magnitude of Crisis
Wall Street Journal
As Financial-System Failures Mounted, Response Became Increasingly Robust; the Lehman Turning Point
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An Aggressive Fed Finds Critics on Wall Street
New York Times
Even though the Federal Reserve’s economic stimulus has benefited Wall Street’s bottom line, top bankers and big investors remain some of the central bank’s most vehement critics.
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Bronte Capital: I am out of tune with these times
Bronte Capital
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WhatsApp Shows How Phone Carriers Lost Out on $33 Billion
Bloomberg
Facebook Inc.’s $19 billion purchase of mobile-messaging startup WhatsApp Inc. is a stark reminder of how much money phone carriers are losing out on as competitors let users text and chat at no charge.
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The sum of all tightenings
barnejek.wordpress.com
The world has stepped on a monetary break. And I don’t think it will end well.
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Trading Rebates Skew Markets, NYSE and Allies Tell SEC
Bloomberg
The New York Stock Exchange and a group of money managers are lobbying U.S. securities regulators to abolish the practice of paying rebates to large brokers to attract trades to stock exchanges and other trading platforms.
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Declawing Speed Traders Is Goal of Stock Market Revamp Proposal
Bloomberg
The only way to mitigate the negative effects of high-speed traders is to redesign a key part of how financial markets operate, according to the University of Chicago’s Eric Budish.
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Statement from Business Wire Regarding News Delivery to High Speed Trading Firms
Business Wire
The following is a statement from Cathy Baron Tamraz, Chairwoman and CEO of Business Wire: Following the February 7, 2014, Wall Street Journal article
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With Ban on Ads Lifted, Hedge Funds Test Waters
New York Times
Years of lackluster performance and growing competition for institutional investors like pension funds have made hedge funds warm to the idea of branding. Just do not call it advertising.
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Fascism, Russia, and Ukraine
nybooks.com
Ukraine is not a theater for the historical propaganda of others or a puzzle from which pieces can be removed. It is a major European country whose citizens have important cultural and economic ties with both the European Union and Russia.
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