Conflicts Of Interest In Investment Banking: What Is The “Right” Answer?

By guest author Jim Heinzman [A few weeks ago, I wrote a Forbes column titled Financial Reform: Legal Vs. Right in which I discussed the interrogation of Goldman Sachs executives by members of Congress following the SEC’s lawsuit against the firm and argued that even if not guilty in a legal sense, Goldman and its

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Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis

Remember my earlier story: Silver Lining In The Financial Crisis? Well, here is an interesting story in the NYT this week: Wall St. Pay Is Cyclical.

MIT Economists on Financial Crisis

A panel of five MIT faculty experts in economics and business analyzed the ongoing financial crisis in the US and world markets at a special session on October 8 that filled lecture hall 10-250 to capacity and extended to two overflow auditoriums. Here is a webcast of the event.