Financial Regulation

By Max Abelson 7/08/10 5:49pm

Wall Street Exec: ‘The Banks Did Okay and Dodged This Whole Thing’

Just as deadline was passing for my story in this week’s paper about the semi secret that nothing has changed on Wall Street since the peak of the financial crisis, I had a conversation with an executive at a major U.S. bank about the story.

I asked him about how seriously Wall Street takes Read More

By Max Abelson 7/07/10 2:30am

Wall Street’s Semi-Secret Stasis

Downtown New York was empty over the long Independence Day weekend. There were no bankers around to breathe the heavy air. Manhattan was warm pudding. Late one afternoon, off with his family, a former senior Lehman Brothers executive was on the phone, musing about his old firm and the lay of the land. Read More

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