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How to Empower Shareholders and Improve Corporate Management in Two Easy Steps

January 22, 2010

Martin Hutchinson Shareholders Wall Street

I wrote last week that Wall Street bonuses should be cut back by the...

Shareholders - Not Obama - Should Be Curbing Wall Street Bonuses

January 13, 2010

Banking Hedge Funds Wall Street

Wall Street bonuses are back in the news again, as the Obama administration scores cheap political points by bashing bankers.

Wall Street's...

This Investment Portfolio is on Fire ...

January 12, 2010

ETFs Article Keith Fitz-Gerald Martin Hutchinson South Korea Steel Stocks Wall Street

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We get asked a lot about the track record of The Money Map...

"Financial Reform" Just Camouflage for Wall Street's Latest Power Play

December 30, 2009

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Anti-Wall Street sentiment makes for a good cover, but behind the scenes and rhetoric, legislators are working with the country's largest...

Special Report: How the Government is Setting Us Up for a Second Subprime Crisis

September 23, 2009

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[Editor's Note: Shah Gilani, a retired hedge fund manager and noted expert on the global credit crisis, predicted this developing FHA debacle in a...

Wall Street Back to Business as Obama's Regulatory Overhaul Loses Momentum

September 17, 2009

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It was more than a year ago - Sept. 14, 2008 - that Lehman Bros. Holding Co. (OTC: LEHMQ) finally collapsed under the weight of its own bad...

The Slow Death of General Motors

March 31, 2009

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By Martin Hutchinson Contributing Editor Money Morning U.S. President Barack Obama's firing of General Motors Corp. (GM) Chief Executive Officer G....

How Deregulation Eviscerated the Banking Sector Safety Net and Spawned the U.S. Financial Crisis

January 13, 2009

Banking Crisis Deregulation Shah Gilani Wall Street

No one person is responsible for the credit crisis, the failure of investment banks, the insolvency of commercial banks world-wide, the implosion...

The Real Reason for the Global Financial Crisis...the Story No One's Talking About

September 18, 2008

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[Part I of a three-part series looking at how so-called “credit default swap” derivatives could ignite a worldwide capital markets meltdown.] By...

Inside Wall Street: The Hocus-Pocus Accounting Tricks That Will Perpetuate the Capital Markets Credit Crisis

September 11, 2008

Shah Gilani Wall Street

[The second installment of a two-part story detailing how accounting machinations have fueled the capital markets credit crisis. Part I appeared...

Inside Wall Street: Why Hocus-Pocus Accounting Will Perpetuate the Capital Markets Credit Crisis

September 10, 2008

Shah Gilani Wall Street

By Shah Gilani Contributing Editor I once asked my friend – world-famous magician Lance Burton – if he could show me how he did a particular...

Inside Wall Street: The Real Reason the Federal Reserve Can’t Raise Interest Rates

July 23, 2008

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By Shah GilaniContributing Editor Given that the U.S. Federal Reserve is the master of “Three-Card Monte,” can you tell what’s in the cards for...

Inside Wall Street: That Ticking Sound You Hear Out in the Mortgage Market is the FHA

July 18, 2008

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By Shah GilaniContributing Editor The fundamentals of economic strife based on the disastrous collapse of the U.S. housing market will not get better...

Inside Wall Street: The Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout is Necessary - But Don't Expect a Happy Ending

July 15, 2008

Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Shah Gilani Wall Street

By Shah GilaniContributing Editor It's the end of the "American Dream." It's the story of how the inevitable bailout of insolvent housing giants...

Inside Wall Street: The Real Reasons the U.S. Banking System Lost its Way

July 10, 2008

Shah Gilani Wall Street

By Shah Gilani Contributing Editor Unlike Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," the brutalized U.S. banking system will never again return to that...