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  • April 2008
    • J'Accuse, Part Deux

      J'Accuse, Part Deux

      Economist, writer, actor, and lawyer Ben Stein follows up his December excoriation of Goldman Sachs' contribution to the subprime crisis with a look in today's New York Times into how Wall Street executives can get away with reckless behavior at the expense of the public. This time he targets the SEC, which has been so weakened in the Bush administration it quietly loosened the capital requirements for investment banks and "told Wall Street to police itself to save on regulatory costs."   More »

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      Wall Street   subprime crisis   Bear Stearns   Ben Stein

  • December 2007
    • J'Accuse

      J'Accuse

      In an extraordinary New York Times column Republican/libertarian economist, writer, actor, and lawyer Ben Stein accuses Goldman Sachs of being a willing participant in, and even plotting, the collapse of value in the collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) market. In the last several years Goldman sold $100 billion of the instruments to investors for substantial fees while at the same time shorting CMOs for profit. More »

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      Henry Paulson   Goldman Sachs   Fortune   Ben Stein

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