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In 2004, while the housing market was going strong and Wall Street was churning out mortgage backed securities, a former Dr. and now hedge fund manager named Michael Burry began to take big bets...
Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point is a popular read at the moment, gracing many of the world's best seller lists. What exactly is Gladwell talking about and what is there to learn from a...
Peer-to-peer lending sites such as Prosper Marketplace and Lending Club have received much of the spotlight when it comes to innovative financial products during the last couple of years, but...
Many investors are taking on more risk than they would like to try and chase yield. But as we've seen over the last year, many high yielding investments are risky and can go south.
The North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA) announced today a settlement with Wells Fargo in which the bank agreed to reimburse $1.3 billion related to the sale of auction rate...
The past year and a half has been rough for investors, although many investors have grown tired for the financial advisers and have become DIY investors, others who have lost money are too...
The graph below shows what the return on this strategy would look like. I was a bit surprised at just how well it did. Clearly, preserving capital, even when it is stashed in unsexy, lower yielding...
After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one, life-insurance securitizations....
I bought a car this weekend using the cash for clunkers program. I got $4,500 off a new car. That's not bad. It will take an awful lot of cash in a 2.5% APY savings account to equal that amount....
TradeKing , which is one of the best online discount brokers, just sent me an email telling me about a promotion where if you refer a friend to TradeKing, both of you get $50. This is as part of...
Think the auction rate security saga is over? Not. Today, TD Ameritrade agreed to pay $465 million to its customers to reimburse them for losses taken in the ARS default mess.
As banks clamp down on consumers' ability to get credit, alternative credit sources could be getting a boost.
On Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission gave its blessing for Prosper.com...
This article in the FT suggests that the Madoff ponzi scheme is going to have a lasting impact on the financial crisis as it undermined the core element of trust that is supposed to be pervasive.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a series of rulings that it says will reduce the change of losses for money market fund investors. The problem is that these rulings will also...