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When high-ups at Central Intelligence Agency headquarters ordered the torture of Abu Zubaydah, they thought he had been withholding valuable information. There was no ticking time bomb, and no one ever claimed there was. They just thought he knew more ...

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Recent embarrassments in certain federal cases have prompted the new attorney general to order retraining for prosecutors. I propose this as the first lesson: Don’t break the law. You would think that little reminder unnecessary. But the handling of the ...

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I’m no hedge fund manager, but this much I know: If someone handling my clients’ wealth coaches me on what to say to federal agents, I’m going to suspect the guy is doing something wrong. Bernard Madoff in 2005 instructed ...

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Tossing bags of billions of federal bucks at state and local governments desperately in need of cash hasn’t everywhere elicited tears of gratitude or knees bent in thanksgiving to the Obama administration. In South Carolina, Gov. Mark Sanford says he ...

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For all the righteous indignation at American International Group spewing from Capitol Hill last week, you would think Congress had played no role in creating this mess. All the screaming last week at AIG’s Chief Executive Officer Edward Liddy diverts ...

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The law is full of technical twists that keep millions of lawyers well-paid. But the essence of contract law is simple. We agree that you will pay me to do a certain thing. Let’s say you promise to give me ...

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However satisfying the click of handcuffs snapping onto Bernard Madoff’s wrists and the knowledge that he’ll never again be free, his guilty plea marked only a beginning. The thousands of investors who lost billions of dollars to his Ponzi scheme ...

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As hundreds of thousands of laid-off workers sign up for unemployment each month and major employers head for bankruptcy court, many Americans would find it oh-so-nice to land a job guaranteed for life. The United States has no kings or ...

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The world is full of victims of American International Group’s bad judgment, whether they know it or not. AIG’s push to market ever more exotic securities with ever decreasing attention to risk helped accelerate the economic tailspin felt around the ...

Tagged with: AIG bailout Ben Bernanke economy General Electric Hank Greenberg

Well, isn’t that just like Hollywood? It isn’t enough that the movie crowd tries to brainwash America through lefty films? In case you didn’t feel like spending your time and money on trashy propaganda, they use the Academy Award stage ...

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For financier con man Robert Vesco, Central America and the Caribbean beckoned when he was charged in the United States with a $224 million mutual fund fraud. Movie director Roman Polanski made do with Paris as his home 30 years ...

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