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Hedge Funds

The Mooch’s Bitcoin ETF Dreams Have Been Dashed

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News

Boring Hollywood Heist Not-Much-Of-A-Thriller Ends With Predictable Guilty Plea, Home Listing

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Hedge Funds

Activist Investing Basically Insider Trading, Sayeth Gary Gensler

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Hedge Funds

Hedge Funds Still Not Sold On Trump’s Fantasy Fascist Facebook

Image adapted from Flickr User Aranami.
Banks

Congratulations And Commiserations, Derek Flowers

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News

New York Attorney General ‘Concludes’ Trump Committed Fraud, Isn’t Gonna Do Anything About It Just Yet

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Banks

Babying Junior Mistmakers Costing Goldman Big

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Hedge Funds

Maybe Republicans Weren’t Being Sincere About Wanting To Boost Investment In Low-Income Areas

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Banks

The Student Has Become The Master

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Banks

Citi Sprinting For The Border

By World Economic Forum (Flickr: The Global Financial Context: James Dimon) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Banks

Firing Watch ’22: Jamie Dimon Is Itching To Make An Example Of You Anti-Vaxxers

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Hedge Funds

Ken Griffin Needs Help, Another $75 Million House To Cope With This World Gone Crazy

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News

You Won’t Have Dick Clarida To Kick Around Anymore

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Hedge Funds

It’s Good To Have An Investor Who Has A Cousin Who Sits On Corporate Boards Who Has A Dad Who Also Sits On Corporate Boards

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News

Outgoing Fed Vice Chair Really Making His Patron Proud

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Banks

Layoffs Watch: Credit Suisse Prime Brokers

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Hedge Funds

Unfortunately-Timed Bonus Watch ’21: Rokos Capital Management

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News

If You Loved Free Kombucha At The Workplace, Surely You’ll Love Free Kombucha At Your Apartment

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Hedge Funds

Ray Dalio Manages Best Return In Years, New Scheme To Pretend He’s Not In Charge Again All In Same Month

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Banks

Goldman Acknowledges Extremely Virulent Disease Spreading Across The Globe, Is Pretty Sure It’ll All Be Over In Two Weeks

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Banks

Banco Santander Hurrying Back Down 75,000 Chimneys To Get Its $175 Million Back

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Hedge Funds

BlueCrest Is Sick And Tired Of Paying Fines For Screwing Over Investors That It Doesn’t Even Have Anymore

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Banks

Justice Dept. Extracts New Promise From Bank Not To Break The Law As Punishment For Failure To Live Up To Old Promise Not To Break The Law

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Hedge Funds

The EU Doesn’t Care About Where You’re Financing Environmental Destruction From, It Still Wants To Know About

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Hedge Funds

If Shareholder Activism Is Poker, Marc Lasry Doesn’t Even Know How Many Cards To Draw

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News

No One Knows What The Hell Is Going On

By Chris Potter (Flickr: 3D Judges Gavel) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Hedge Funds

Hedge Fund Manager Convicted Of Lying To Former Professional Liar Anthony Scaramucci Gets New Trial Because Prosecutors Got All Caught Up In The Lying

By Chris Potter (Flickr: 3D Judges Gavel) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Hedge Funds

Circumlocution, What-About-ism Not A Winning Strategy For Hedge Fund Manager In Court

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News

Trump SPAC Player Confirms It Broke All The Rules, Wants His Money Anyway

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News

Former McKinsey Partner Pleads Guilty To Living Up To His Own Name

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News

Reddit Files To Become Meme Stock Of Its Own

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News

Jack Dorsey’s Consciousness Has Not Been Raised To The Existence Of Other Tax Preparation Companies Called ‘Block’

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Banks

New Unfortunate COVID Vaccine Side Effect: Having To Go To The Office

By Chris Potter (Flickr: 3D Judges Gavel) [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
News

At Least Some Actual Evidence Of Insider-Trading Required To Win Insider-Trading Cases

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Banks

Bonus Watch ’21: Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase

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Banks

Jamie Dimon Is A Pretty Permissive Babysitter, It Turns Out

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Banks

Noted Epidemiologist James Gorman Acknowledges Slight Scientific Error

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Hedge Funds

Bill Ackman’s SPARC Not Exactly Lighting A Fire Under SEC

By deavmi (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Cryptocurrencies

Two Disreputable Banks Lend Their Disrespectability To Crypto

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News

Trumpkin F.D.I.C. Chair Develops Newfound Respect For Rules, Order, Procedure

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Mohamed El-Erian Thinks Less Of Jay Powell Than He Does Of Bill Gross

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Hedge Funds

Dan Och Overdosing On SPACs, Cryptos

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News

SEC To Make SPACs More Like IPOs, Thus Obviating The Need For SPACs

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Hedge Funds

Ungrateful Justice Department Takes Aim At Vigilante Short Sellers

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Hedge Funds

Working For, Keeping Safe Donald Trump Not A Big Enough Challenge For David Cho

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Hedge Funds

Raj Rajaratnam Was Smarter Than You And Preet Bharara Was Greedier Than He And Therefore Rajaratnam Could Not Have Committed A Crime

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Hedge Funds

Phil Falcone Responds To Reporter Asking About Unpaid Bills That Nearly Sent Him To Jail With Defensive Retort About Offshore Accounts

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Banks

Deutsche Bank May Have Managed To Break Its Deal With The Justice Department Literally Before The Ink Was Dry

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News

As Ever, Martin Shkreli Gets The Spotlight All To Himself

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Cryptocurrencies

Did You Know Cryptocurrencies Were All About Helping The Unbanked?