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  • ‘Frontline’ Blames Bankers, Lawmakers for Crisis: Review

    Early in “Money, Power and Wall Street,” a two-night, four-hour investigation by “Frontline” into the 2008 financial crisis, former JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s investment bank Co-Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters recalls a 1994 staff retreat in Boca Raton, Florida.

  • Sorkin’s ‘Too Big to Fail’ Is Finalist in Samuel Johnson Prize

    Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big to Fail” made the final round in the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize , an annual U.K. nonfiction award worth 20,000 pounds ($28,650) to the winner.

  • Ex-Villain Goldman Is Reborn as Today’s Victim: William D. Cohan

    You didn’t really think Goldman Sachs Group Inc. would go down without a fight now did you? Of course not. So it should come as little surprise that recently Goldman has started to push back hard against its nemesis, Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, and his narrative that the firm is the lead villain of the financial crisis.

  • LA Times Reporter Beats Sorkin in BBC Samuel Johnson Book Prize

    Barbara Demick ’s “Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea” won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize , defeating Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big to Fail” and four other finalists for the annual U.K. nonfiction award, worth 20,000 pounds ($30,000).

  • Chicago’s Rajan Wins $47,500 FT/Goldman Prize for ‘Fault Lines’

    Raghuram G. Rajan ’s “Fault Lines,” a look at why the financial order is prone to blowing bubbles, won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award , defeating Andrew Ross Sorkin and other authors on the financial crisis.

  • Paulson Cast as Stoic Savior in ‘Too Big’ Wall Street Saga: TV

    Andrew Ross Sorkin ’s sprawling best- seller “ Too Big to Fail ” is now a TV movie that transforms the complex tale of Wall Street greed into a knight-in-shining-armor saga.

  • Merrill’s ‘Voldemort Book’ Crushes O’Neal in Thriller on Crash

    Some Merrill Lynch & Co . traders had a dark departmental secret: They called it the “Voldemort Book,” says Greg Farrell in “Crash of the Titans.”

  • Diamond Parries Attacks on Pay With Vow to Earn Public Trust

    As 1,100 managing directors from Barclays Capital descended on the Grosvenor House hotel near London’s Hyde Park in late September, they had more to celebrate than having successfully swallowed the North American unit of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. two years earlier. Their guy, Bob Diamond , the Massachusetts-born founder of Barclays Capital, had just been handed the top job at parent Barclays Plc in a sign of how he had transformed the 320-year-old British institution in his 14 years as investment bank chief, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

  • Deutsche Bank Could Transfer Contagion: Simon Johnson

    You’ve probably never heard of Taunus Corp., but according to the Federal Reserve, it’s the U.S.’s eighth-largest bank holding company. Taunus, it turns out, is the North American subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG, with assets of just over $380 billion.

  • Deutsche Bank Could Transfer Financial Contagion: Simon Johnson

    You’ve probably never heard of Taunus Corp., but according to the Federal Reserve, it’s the U.S.’s eighth-largest bank holding company. Taunus, it turns out, is the North American subsidiary of Germany’s Deutsche Bank AG, with assets of just over $380 billion.

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