Items by By JOE NOCERA
NYT > Sports
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Op-Ed Columnist: Football and Swahili
Posted: April 9th, 2012, 11:21pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Phony majors for athletes and low expectations are rife on college campuses. Why won’t universities let their athletes be real students?
NYT > Business
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Good, Bad and Ugly of Capitalism
Posted: March 17th, 2012, 2:02am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Goldman Sachs displayed one side of capitalism this week that seemed to strike a chord with many. Starbucks is displaying a different side.
NYT > Sports
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Op-Ed Columnist: A Union Stands Up for Players
Posted: March 6th, 2012, 11:26am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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College athletes are more than just cogs in the N.C.A.A. machine.
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Hockey Exemption
Posted: February 14th, 2012, 2:00am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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If only the N.C.A.A. would let all college athletes have the benefit of an agent. It seems to work for hockey players.
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Joe Nocera Blog: Submit Your Stupid N.C.A.A. Rule and Win
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 3:31pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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I thought I had stumbled onto the single dumbest N.C.A.A. rule of all time, but to my surprise, there are more.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Saving Freshman Ryan
Posted: January 31st, 2012, 12:15am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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In the case of the University of Connecticut’s Ryan Boatright, the N.C.A.A. is letting him play again, but it issued a malicious ruling in doing so.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Living in Fear of the N.C.A.A.
Posted: January 24th, 2012, 12:03am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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In the saga of Ryan Boatright, Part II, more evidence of how the N.C.A.A. wrecks careers, ignores due process and punishes the innocent.
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Op-Ed Columnist: Guilty Until Proved Innocent
Posted: January 21st, 2012, 12:27am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The N.C.A.A.’s outrageous case against a freshman on Connecticut’s basketball team is an example of just how unjust the system is.
NYT > Business
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Op-Ed Columnist: Keep It Simple
Posted: January 17th, 2012, 2:10pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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An influential critic says banking regulations are too complex, and she offers some solutions.
NYT > Sports
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Op-Ed Columnist: More N.C.A.A. ‘Justice’
Posted: January 13th, 2012, 11:03pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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When a basketball player from St. Joseph’s University tried to transfer to another school, he ran into the biggest bullies on campus.
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Op-Ed Columnist: N.C.A.A.’s ‘Justice’ System
Posted: January 7th, 2012, 12:10am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Due process in college athletics? Surely you jest.
NYT > Home Page
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Let’s Start Paying College Athletes
Posted: January 1st, 2012, 5:10am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The corrupt, contrived sentimentality of big-time college sports has created a glaring, and increasingly untenable, discrepancy between what players get and what everyone else in their food chain reaps.
NYT > Sports
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Op-Ed Columnist: The College Sports Cartel
Posted: December 31st, 2011, 1:34am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The N.C.A.A. is a walking, talking antitrust violation.
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Let’s Start Paying College Athletes
Posted: December 30th, 2011, 6:44pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The corrupt, contrived sentimentality of big-time college sports has created a glaring, and increasingly untenable, discrepancy between what players get and what everyone else in their food chain reaps.
NYT > Business
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Op-Ed Columnist: An Inconvenient Truth
Posted: December 20th, 2011, 12:00am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac didn’t cause the mortgage crisis. Sorry, folks.
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Sheila Bair’s Bank Shot
Posted: July 9th, 2011, 10:33pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The exclusive exit interview.
NYT > Sports
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Op-Ed Columnist: N.C.A.A.’s Double Standard
Posted: April 8th, 2011, 11:20pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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In the world of Division I men’s basketball, the big-shot coach gets a wrist slap and the player gets an iron fist.
NYT > Business
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Talking Business: Inquiry Is Missing Bottom Line
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 10:30pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The government’s assessment of the financial crisis could have used less investigation and more analysis, but maybe it’s too soon to expect perspective.
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Talking Business: Shamed Into Altering a Mortgage
Posted: January 22nd, 2011, 1:40am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The bank altered a home loan for a 73-year-old Queens woman, but not until the homeowner’s predicament received some publicity.
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Talking Business: Verizon Deal May Expose IPhone Flaws
Posted: January 15th, 2011, 1:00am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The problem with dropped calls on the iPhone may no longer be blamed on the network now that Apple has signed a deal with Verizon Wireless.
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Talking Business: Explaining the Crisis With Dogma
Posted: December 18th, 2010, 12:20am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The Republican members of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission say the financial crisis was caused primarily by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Talking Business: A Happy Ending to a Raw, but Common, Tale
Posted: December 4th, 2010, 2:53am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Lilla Roberts fell behind on her mortgage for a while over a paying history of around 20 years. But her modification was so sloppily handled, she could have lost her home.
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Talking Business: Justice for Spill Victims, Like It or Not
Posted: November 20th, 2010, 2:44am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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It is unlikely that oil spill victims will get a fairer deal in court than the one that is compensating them with money from BP’s $20 billion fund.
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Talking Business: Lesson Plan From a Departing Schools Chief
Posted: November 12th, 2010, 7:51pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Before Joel I. Klein became New York’s schools chief, he fought another kind of monopoly, Microsoft.
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Talking Business: Unyielding, an Oligarch vs. Putin
Posted: November 5th, 2010, 11:10pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Mikhail Khodorkovsky has become, in the Putin era, a courageous dissident standing up to an authoritarian regime.
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Talking Business: The States Take On Foreclosures
Posted: October 29th, 2010, 5:59pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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All 50 attorneys general are conducting a joint investigation into the bank practices that led to the mortgage scandal.
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Talking Business: Big Problem for Banks: Due Process
Posted: October 23rd, 2010, 12:47pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Why Bank of America shouldn’t count on putting its foreclosure problems behind it so quickly.
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Talking Business: Capturing the Facebook Obsession
Posted: October 16th, 2010, 12:40am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The movie “The Social Network” succeeds, in part, by showing the selfishness and arrogance often displayed by young entrepreneurs.
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Talking Business: A Double Standard at H.P.
Posted: October 9th, 2010, 12:30am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Hewlett-Packard’s board, which ousted its former chief executives for ethical lapses, may have ignored an ethical issue involving its new chief executive.
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Talking Business: Still Stuck in Denial on Wall St.
Posted: October 2nd, 2010, 12:50am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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A hedge fund manager who feels beat up on — and can’t imagine why — might need a reality check.
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Talking Business: Sentiment Trumped Numbers in Ground Zero Skyscraper
Posted: September 18th, 2010, 1:59am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Few people seem willing to question whether building 1 World Trade Center makes any sense.
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Talking Business: H.P.’s Blundering Board
Posted: September 11th, 2010, 12:02am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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When Hewlett-Packard’s board ousted its chief executive, Mark V. Hurd, it neglected to make a legally binding deal to keep him from jumping to a rival.
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Talking Business: The Struggle for What We Already Have
Posted: September 4th, 2010, 12:40am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The angst over net neutrality reaches from boardrooms to living rooms, but take heart: companies will breach its principles at their own peril. Consumers have come to expect an open Internet.
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Talking Business: Widespread Fear Freezes Housing Market
Posted: August 28th, 2010, 1:10am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Those dismal July housing figures were no blip, and signaled more bad news to come.
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Talking Business: The Real Reason for Ousting H.P.’s Chief
Posted: August 13th, 2010, 11:41pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The Hewlett-Packard board created a smoke screen to oust Mark V. Hurd when it could have fired him on legitimate grounds.
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Talking Business: Was Steinbrenner Bold, or Just Lucky?
Posted: July 17th, 2010, 1:50am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees for $10 million and turned the team into a financial powerhouse. But what if the circumstances had been different?
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Talking Business: Reform Unlikely to Prevent a New Financial Crisis
Posted: June 4th, 2010, 11:20pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Will the financial regulation reform bill that emerges from the House and Senate do what it’s intended to do? Probably not.
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Talking Business: Bet Dreamed Up by Wall Street Made Crisis Worse
Posted: April 17th, 2010, 2:25am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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In the absence of financial instruments known as synthetic C.D.O.’s, the subprime crisis might have been more easily contained.
NYT > Home Page
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Talking Business: Bet Dreamed Up by Wall Street Made Crisis Worse
Posted: April 17th, 2010, 2:25am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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In the absence of financial instruments known as synthetic C.D.O.’s, the subprime crisis might have been more easily contained.
NYT > Business
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Talking Business: Incompetent? No, Just Not a Leader
Posted: October 3rd, 2009, 1:06am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Unlike his legendary predecessor at Bank of America, Ken Lewis turned out not to be a born leader.
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Talking Business: From Obama, G-20’s Mission as Tim Sees It
Posted: September 26th, 2009, 1:29am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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An imagined pitch from President Obama in Pittsburgh, jawboning his peers on the need for more bank capital.
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Talking Business: Lehman Had to Die So Global Finance Could Live
Posted: September 12th, 2009, 3:58am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The Lehman Brothers failure caused a panic that spurred Congress to approve the $700 billion bailout.
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Talking Business: The Cloud Hanging Over Skype
Posted: September 4th, 2009, 9:26pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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A lawsuit lurking in the background of the eBay-Skype sale raises some questions.
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Talking Business: It’s Time to Admit That Money Funds Involve Risk
Posted: August 28th, 2009, 9:54pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Money markets are investment vehicles, not bank savings accounts, which means (shudder) investors may sometimes lose money.
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Talking Business: Thumbs Down From the Bench on Two U.S. Deals
Posted: August 14th, 2009, 5:57pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Federal judges rejected prearranged deals in the Bank of America/Merrill Lynch and Madoff cases. One was a good move, the other perhaps not.
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Talking Business: It’s Time to Stay the Courier
Posted: August 8th, 2009, 1:44am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Instead of trying to find short-term solutions to its financial crisis, perhaps the Postal Service should change its business model.
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Talking Business: ‘Nice’ Wasn’t Part of the Deal
Posted: August 1st, 2009, 1:35am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The banks’ obligation to the taxpayers who saved them is to stay in business. If the people want more, the government has to demand it.
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Talking Business: A Little Too Responsible? That’ll Cost You
Posted: July 24th, 2009, 8:31pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The CIT Group’s earlier decision to wander into fewer risky bets has now made it more likely to fail.
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Talking Business: Looking Back in Anger at the Crisis
Posted: July 17th, 2009, 10:03pm EDT by By Joe Nocera
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If the Bank of America hearings show anything, it is that Congress is taking away all the wrong lessons from the crisis.
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Talking Business: From Treasury to Banks, an Ultimatum on Mortgage Relief
Posted: July 10th, 2009, 10:02pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The federal government is taking the largest mortgage servicers to the woodshed on their efforts to modify shaky loans.
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Talking Business: Ire at Madoff Swings Toward the Referee
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 11:30pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Ever since the scandal broke, many victims have felt aggrieved at the process itself, directing their anger at a lawyer caught in a no-win situation.
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Talking Business: Poking Holes in a Theory on Markets
Posted: June 6th, 2009, 2:48am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The efficient market hypothesis, which argues that the stock market is essentially rational, is taking serious hits, and one analyst says it is at the root of the financial crisis.
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Talking Business: Investor Exits and Leaves Puzzlement
Posted: May 30th, 2009, 1:03am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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After William Ackman’s defeat in his attempt to elect members of Target’s board, the question remains: What made him do it in the first place?
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Executive Suite: Hedge Fund Manager’s Farewell
Posted: May 15th, 2009, 7:21pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Neil Barsky, the head of Alson Capital, says the markets these days are trickier to read, but more than that, the daily grind has grown much less gratifying.
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Talking Business: This Time, Geithner’s Plan for Banks Makes Sense
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 12:40am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The plan to deal with toxic assets could, in the best case, make our banks a little healthier and a little better able to extend credit.
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Talking Business: Madoff Had Accomplices: His Victims
Posted: March 14th, 2009, 1:33am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Only the willfully ignorant could have seen Bernard L. Madoff’s fund as a good investment.
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Talking Business: Behind the Curtain at G.E.
Posted: March 7th, 2009, 1:26am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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It’s been a bad week for General Electric, but investors started losing trust in the company nearly a year ago.
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Talking Business: Propping Up a House of Cards
Posted: February 27th, 2009, 11:13pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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A.I.G. has the global financial system by the throat, leaving the government little choice but to throw money at it.
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Talking Business: First, Let’s Fix the Bonuses
Posted: February 21st, 2009, 2:40am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Financial incentives that once fostered loyalty to Wall Street firms now turn employees into greedy free agents.
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Talking Business: A Stress Test for the Latest Bailout Plan
Posted: February 14th, 2009, 12:08am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Timothy Geithner’s bailout plan includes a so-called stress test to figure out how crippled big banks would be under various economic assumptions.
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Talking Business: It’s Not the Bonus Money. It’s the Principle.
Posted: January 30th, 2009, 8:17pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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The scolding Wall Street got from President Obama for bonuses suggests that they’re going to be paying a price for a good long time.
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Talking Business: First Bailout Formula Had It Right
Posted: January 24th, 2009, 1:02am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Dealing with banks’ bad assets should be high on the list now. So how do we go about it?
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Talking Business: First Bailout Formula Had It Right
Posted: January 23rd, 2009, 11:18pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Dealing with banks’ bad assets should be high on the list now. So how do we go about it?
NYT > Business
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Talking Business: In Search of One Bold Stroke to Save the Banks
Posted: January 17th, 2009, 3:38am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Any systemic solution to the government’s endless bank bailouts has to deal with the bad assets, once and for all.
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Talking Business: Health Isn’t a Private Issue When You’re a Legend
Posted: January 16th, 2009, 1:36am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Steve Jobs’s decision to reveal more about his health may not belong entirely to him, not when so much of Apple’s business relies on his personality as chief executive.
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Talking Business: In India, Crisis Pairs With Fraud
Posted: January 10th, 2009, 12:52am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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India’s credit crisis helped expose the Satyam fraud case.
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RISK Mismanagement
Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 4:14pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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Were the measures used to evaluate Wall Street trades flawed? Or was the mistake ignoring them?
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Gerald Tsai | b. 1929: The Go-Go Investor
Posted: December 23rd, 2008, 10:56pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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He could never shake his association with the collapse of market exuberance.
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Talking Business: Avoiding the Brunt of a Financial Crisis, Indian-Style
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 4:18pm EST by By JOE NOCERA
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In India, banks usually don’t lend money to people who lack the means to pay it back. Any lessons to be learned, class?
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Talking Business: Out of the Spotlight, an Industry Copes With Crisis
Posted: November 29th, 2008, 12:39am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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A Chicago-based truck dealership is seeing the effects of the credit crisis far more clearly than most policy makers.
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Talking Business: Facing Crisis, Congress Makes Sense
Posted: November 15th, 2008, 12:53am EST by By JOE NOCERA
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At a House hearing, Barney Frank used a witness to send a strong message to the securitization industry.
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Executive Suite: More on a Housing Recovery Plan
Posted: October 19th, 2008, 10:03pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Daniel Alpert's plan to help homeowners with impaired mortgages, which was the subject of my column on Saturday, received many thoughtful comments. Many readers were as enthusiastic about his plan as I was, but many others raised objections that deserve to be addressed. I asked Mr. Alpert to respond to the critics. [...].
NYT > Business
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Talking Business: Shouldn’t We Rescue Housing?
Posted: October 18th, 2008, 12:55am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Now that the government has “saved” Wall Street, it needs to tackle the continuing decline of housing prices.
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Talking Business: Swept Up by Insanity of Markets
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:12pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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We find ourselves experiencing the same kind of financial panic that has dogged mankind at least since the Dutch tulip mania of the 1630s.
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Talking Business: A Day (Gasp) Like Any Other
Posted: October 7th, 2008, 1:27pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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This crisis doesn’t wear you down over time. It hits you over the head with a two-by-four on a daily basis.
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Talking Business: Markets Can’t Wait for Congress to Act
Posted: September 27th, 2008, 2:44am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The markets may not be as panicked as they were last week, but with every passing day, the situation is getting increasingly dangerous.
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Talking Business: A Hail Mary Pass, but No Receiver in the End Zone
Posted: September 20th, 2008, 12:15am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Rather than help solve the crisis, the Treasury Department has actually contributed to the biggest problem in the market right now: an utter lack of confidence.
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Talking Business: On Wall Street as on Main Street, a Problem of Denial
Posted: September 16th, 2008, 2:17pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The financial giants’ downfall has been refusing to see that their investments were worth less than estimated.
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Talking Business: The Kettle? The Pot Says He’s Black
Posted: August 30th, 2008, 12:43am EDT by By Joe Nocera
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Some readers argued that Carl C. Icahn wasn’t practicing what he preached when he took on Yahoo. They have a point.
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Talking Business: Apple’s Toy, and Other Thoughts
Posted: July 11th, 2008, 9:29pm EDT by By Joe Nocera
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Thoughts about the new iPhone, an eye-popping, all-electric roadster and the self-serving gripes and paranoia of the Bear Stearns brass.
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Talking Business: Easy Target, but Not the Right One
Posted: June 28th, 2008, 1:41am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The Congressional hearings this week over the impact of speculators on the price of oil made for wonderful theater — but they had nothing to do with oil.
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Talking Business: A.M.D. and Its War With Intel
Posted: June 21st, 2008, 1:13am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Antitrust investigations are so maddening that the Federal Trade Commission is likely to have a hard time getting to the bottom of the case against Intel.
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The Business: These Games Brought to You by . . .
Posted: June 1st, 2008, 1:39am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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The dubious rewards of Olympic sponsorship.
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Talking Business: Passions Run High on Indexing
Posted: May 16th, 2008, 11:57pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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An academic debate on a financial product called fundamentally weighted indexes turned out to be quite the snake pit.
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Talking Business: An Upstart Up Against a Jewel
Posted: May 3rd, 2008, 12:25am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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“The Takeaway,” a brand-new show broadcast on 15 public radio stations, is gearing up to face off with the mother of all public radio shows, “Morning Edition.” -
Talking Business: Horatio Alger Multiplied by 1.3 Billion
Posted: April 26th, 2008, 12:30am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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You hear constantly that China is a country of young people, but you really see it in business, where a whole generation of young entrepreneurs has gone from rags to riches. -
Talking Business: China Tries to Solve Its Brand X Blues
Posted: April 11th, 2008, 11:28pm EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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Talking Business: Seeing the Sights of Industrial China: 2 Factories, 2 Futures
Posted: April 5th, 2008, 1:27am EDT by By JOE NOCERA
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China is caught between the reality of low-cost, tight-margin industries and a desire to advance in the production of higher-profit goods.