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Inside Job – Unveiling Economists’ Ties to the Financial Sector

Strategy Driven

PBS NewsHour Economics Correspondent Paul Solman talks to Charles Ferguson, director of Academy Award winning documentary, Inside Job , a film that raises red flags about the world of finance. Sloan Foundation provided funding for this project. The Alfred P.

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Why the Fed Is So Wimpy

Harvard Business Review

The other smoking gun is that Segarra pushed for a tough Fed line on Goldman’s lack of a substantive conflict of interest policy, and was rebuffed by her boss. That’s because, for the past two decades or so, not having a substantive conflict of interest policy has been Goldman’s business model.