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Alex Freemon was so eager to be a stockbroker after graduating from the Georgia Institute of Technology last year that he said he was happy to go door to door selling mutual funds for Edward Jones & Co.
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In his new show, “Outsiders,” David McWilliams tells a story about his recruitment into investment banking in the 1990s.
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On a Sunday morning in October, Simon Kelly sat in the breakfast room of Dublin’s Morrison Hotel, looking eager to chat. Simon, 38, and his father, Paddy Kelly, 66, were once among Ireland’s most audacious real estate developers. During the boom years, they borrowed about 700 million euros ($950 million) from Anglo Irish Bank Corp. to buy golf resorts and build hotels.
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Irish comedians are lining up to pillory financiers and lampoon politicians -- as investors dump the government’s bonds on concern that a rescue of the banking system will bankrupt the nation.
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Ireland’s bailout money starts to arrive next week, with investors expressing skepticism about the country’s ability to repay its debts by driving the cost of insuring against default to a record.
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As a 12-year-old boy, Brian Lenihan learned Latin during the summer to win a place at James Joyce’s alma mater, Belvedere College in Dublin.
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