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UBS AG, the investment bank that’s eliminating 10,000 jobs as it retreats from fixed-income, isn’t giving up on the $550 billion commercial-mortgage bond market.
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Lawyers for Michael Lewis, the author of “Liar’s Poker” and “Moneyball,” asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by a bond manager who claimed Lewis’s book about subprime mortgage investing, “The Big Short,” defamed him.
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Michael Lewis’s “Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World” begins with Kyle Bass, a Texas hedge fund manager who’s buying guns and gold bricks.
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For 20 years, Don Brownstein taught philosophy at the University of Kansas. He specialized in metaphysics, which examines the character of reality itself. In a photo from his teaching days, he looks like a young Karl Marx , with a bushy black beard and unruly hair.
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One grim night before Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. imploded, trader Jared Dillian drank himself into a frenzied scream, hugged his cat and downed half a bottle of the only drug on hand: Tylenol PM, he says.
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Late last week, a little-known trader at JPMorgan Chase & Co. in London, Bruno Iksil, awoke to find his life changed forever.
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“We’ve had a pretty good crisis,” says Barry Bausano , smiling as he surveys Deutsche Bank AG’s sprawling 35,000-square-foot equities trading floor in downtown Manhattan. Behind him, on bookshelves in his glass-walled office, sit two copies of “Too Big to Fail,” along with “Liar’s Poker” and “Triumph of the Optimists,” which tracks 101 years of worldwide investment returns.
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Last week, an executive director at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. named Greg Smith jumped off the op-ed page of the New York Times and into headlines around the globe.
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With so many business books spilling from the shelves, we’re often asked for a comprehensive list of recommendations. Here’s an updated list of 50 top titles published since Jan. 1, 2009.
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Yale economist Robert Shiller praises finance and defends Goldman Sachs Group Inc., while George Soros urges Angela Merkel not to hurl Europe into “deflationary debt trap” in two of our favorite business books of late. Here’s a list of recommended titles.
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