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The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Anand Chokkavelu |
"The Big Short" The Blind Side author Michael Lewis comes to our offices to talk about his new book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, on the financial crisis. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Jennifer Schonberger |
Lessons From the Financial Crisis Michael Lewis won acclaim for his bestselling Wall Street expose, Liar's Poker, in which he described the Wall Street excesses he witnessed as a bond salesman for Salomon Brothers. He speaks briefly now on his current opinion of the markets. |
The Motley Fool December 1, 2008 Mac Greer |
Michael Lewis on the Hedge Fund Manager Who Saw It Coming The author of Liar's Poker discusses hedge fund manager Steve Eisman, and predicts what Wall Street will look like in five years. |
BusinessWeek March 11, 2010 Michael Osinski |
The Subprime of Their Lives In "The Big Short," Michael Lewis lionizes speculators who made a killing on the crash. |
The Motley Fool November 28, 2008 Mac Greer |
Michael Lewis on Wall Street's Need for Privacy The acclaimed author talks about the current state of the Street. |
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 William D. Cohan |
The End of Wall Street? The sad truth is that Wall Street is much the same as it was before; it's Main Street that may never be the same again. |
BusinessWeek September 30, 2010 Michael Lewis |
Michael Lewis on the Case of Goldman's Missing Traders Big Wall Street firms fought hard to keep the 3 percent loophole, now they're giving up their interests in hedge funds they control. |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Mac Greer |
Fool Radio: Michael Lewis on "The Blind Side" The author discusses his book. |
The Motley Fool May 24, 2010 Moscovitz & Koppenheffer |
Wall Street Reform: The Good, the Meh, and the Ugly A Foolish take on what's in the Senate bill. |
The Motley Fool November 1, 2011 John Reeves |
Michael Lewis on Wall Street, Europe, and the Next Big Crisis Michael Lewis visits and shares his views on the most important financial issues of the day. |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
How to Fail at Financial Reform Real financial reform still seems to be something of a pipe dream. What we got from Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, fell far short. |
The Motley Fool February 12, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Wall Street's Insane Poker Game Continues Its perpetual loop of asinine behavior needs to stop. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Mac Greer |
Michael Lewis on the Financial Panic The author of Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity talks about who started the mess we're in -- and how to solve it. |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Don't Let the Door Hit You, Ken Lewis! The CEO says the end of the year will be the end of his career with Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2009 Morgan Housel |
With Lewis Gone, Is Pandit Next? Citigroup's current CEO, Vikram Pandit, replaced Chuck Prince in 2007, so he can't be blamed for many of Citi's problems. But you can still argue that he should be replaced. |
The Motley Fool September 30, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Big Banks Abandon Proprietary Trading Why would banks abandon a way to make money? |
The Motley Fool April 1, 2010 Brian Richards |
April 1 and the Absurdity of the Financial System Happy April Fool's Day! |
Financial Advisor May 2009 Gregory Bresiger |
Learning Nothing, Forgetting Nothing A new book, Panic, edited by Michael Lewis, suggests that long-standing wisdom about the markets might be all wet after the deluge. |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Smashing Numbers for Goldman Sachs Amid difficult market conditions and every reasonable expectation that the firm would hit some bumps, Goldman Sachs has an incredible quarter, reporting earnings per share 41% above the consensus estimates of Wall Street analysts. |
The Motley Fool March 22, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Worst to First at Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack has quickly put Morgan Stanley back on the pedestal of highly respected Wall Street firms. How long it stays there is anyone's guess, but now may not be the time for investors to bet against it. |
The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
The Investment Banking Wrap-Up A look back at an eventful week in the investment banking segment: Lehman, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bear Sterns all report; the results are mixed. |
The Motley Fool June 28, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer |
Our Government Failed Us The final touches have been put on the financial reform bill and it's just as bad as ever. |
BusinessWeek April 1, 2010 |
Prelude to a Panic September 2008 will live in infamy as the month when the U.S. financial system ground to a halt. But for Goldman Sachs and other institutions, the real panic took place throughout 2007. Here is what happened behind the scenes at Goldman. |
The Motley Fool January 22, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Gone So Soon, John Thain? Merrill Lynch's John Thain has bowed out just weeks after selling his firm to Bank of America. |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Michael Goode |
Lehman Dodges a Bullet Despite fears, Lehman Brothers takes only a small hit from mortgage bonds. The first investment bank to report this quarter, their results may be a good indication of what's in store for others. |
BusinessWeek January 13, 2011 Michael J. Moore |
It's Showtime for Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley failed to live up to expectations last year; CEO James Gorman doesn't want the losing streak to continue. |
CFO March 1, 2008 Avital Louria Hahn |
Missing Pieces How poor risk-management techniques contributed to the subprime mess. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
As the Subprime World Turns Weekly banking news: This week, earnings releases from several investment banks made the industry look like it's playing good cop/bad cop with investors. |
The Motley Fool April 23, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Conspiracy at Bank of America? News breaks that Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was supposedly strong-armed by the government to keep mum on the losses at Merrill Lynch. |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Morgan Housel |
Ken Lewis: A Fraudster, or Just Stupid? Or maybe a stupid fraudster? |
The Motley Fool February 20, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Bank Stocks Obliterated Some of our largest banks now trade at their lowest levels since the early 1980s. |
Registered Rep. August 1, 2004 |
15 Years Ago in Registered Rep From June 1989: New York-based Shearson broker Charles Lewis won an aggravated harassment case against 67-year-old Ethel Scull, for phoning Lewis 1,208 times over eight days following the October 1987 crash. |
The Motley Fool May 12, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
Morgan Stanley Wishes It Weren't Like Goldman U.S. prosecutors are investigating whether Morgan misled investors in mortgage derivatives; similar to the charges against Goldman Sachs. |
The Motley Fool March 30, 2010 Morgan Housel |
For Banks, It's Been 800 Days of Christmas A short list of little-known goodies. |
The Motley Fool February 11, 2010 Nicole Gelinas |
The Volcker Rule and Congress' Unlearned Lesson How do we protect the economy from old-fashioned bank runs in the new-fangled credit world, without arbitrary bailouts that obliterate market discipline? Here are the three rules we should be enacting. |
The Motley Fool May 2, 2008 Tom Hutchinson |
This Week in Banking Many of the nation's banks are still coping with deteriorating balance sheets while the economy seems to be avoiding recession. |
Registered Rep. January 10, 2011 Kristen French |
Morgan Stanley To Spin Off Prop Trading by 2012 The division's employees will acquire certain assets from Morgan Stanley and set up an independent advisory at the end of 2012. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2007 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Morgan Stanley Still Shining The brokerage house is riding high, with no signs of a slowdown. In less than two years, John Mack has turned Morgan from a chronic underperformer to the toast of Wall Street. |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2006 Dumortier & Khattab |
Investment Banks Under the Microscope Investors, which Wall Street firms make the grade? Goldman Sachs... Lehman Brothers... Bear Stearns... Morgan Stanley... Merrill Lynch... etc. |
The Motley Fool January 14, 2010 Alex Dumortier |
The Riskiest, Most Profitable Bank of All While the Fed won't suffer the same fate as Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers or Northern Rock, a run on the dollar (or even just an orderly decline) could turn out to be the direct equivalent of a run on the (central) bank. |
The Motley Fool March 20, 2007 Matt Koppenheffer |
Foolish Forecast: Morgan Stanley Gets Ready to Deliver The financial firm will report it most recently quarterly earnings shortly. Investors, here is what you can expect to see. |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Alex Dumortier |
The Bubble That's Refusing to Die They're back! According to the Financial Times, bubble-era financing practices that were buried with the crisis have risen from the grave in recent weeks. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Sean Ryan |
Banking on Bank of America Bank of America's painful present belies a fruitful future. |
The Motley Fool July 14, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Nothing's Changed in Banking The recent upending of the financial world seems to have yielded few results. |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2006 Ryan Fuhrmann |
Motley Fool Double Take: Morgan Stanley Bulges Forward Morgan Stanley reported another strong quarter, but has all the easy money in the stock now been made? |
The Motley Fool October 16, 2009 Matt Koppenheffer |
Payback Time for Ken Lewis C-suite compensation linked to performance needs to happen through new compensation packages that reward executives for executing on a sober, long-term strategy, not through government intervention. |
Bank Systems & Technology April 30, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Ken Lewis Remains BofA CEO for Now The Bank of America chairman was removed from his position and, although he retains the CEO title, his days may still be numbered. |
Registered Rep. September 15, 2008 Kristen French |
Merrill Lynch Sells Itself To Bank of America: Update 3 The biggest question, now that BofA has agreed to buy Merrill Lynch, is what Bank of America will do to hold onto Merrill Lynch's dearest asset -- its approximately 17,000 financial advisors. |
The Motley Fool July 12, 2007 Rich Duprey |
The Newest Homeowners: Big Banks The vortex of price declines sucking down values could spiral out of the investment bankers' control, leading to their own subprime devaluation. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool November 26, 2008 Mac Greer |
Michael Lewis on Wall Street's Future What will Wall Street look like in five years? A conversation with Michael Lewis, editor of the new anthology Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, in this video. |