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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Arrested Collection Consumers Courtesy Entitled Getting Letters People Rights Same

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Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Applicable Body Bold Collection Collectors Consumer Debt Disclose Illegal Letters Limitations Old Required Should Sue Type While

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Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest.

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Topics: Former Gingrich Guy House Kind Modest Newt Newt Gingrich Speaker Street Surprisingly Wall Wall Street

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Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

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Topics: Dating Days Distinguished Fund Funds Hedge History Insider Know Long People Such A Thing Thing Trading

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I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.

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Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.

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Topics: Cases Complicated Dangerous Endeavor Financial History Ordinarily Proves Score

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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.

~Gary Weiss

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I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities.

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Topics: Between Exchange Floor Found Investors Keep Mainly Options Paid Possible Prices Same Securities Spreads Wide

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When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934.

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Topics: Banking Bold Commission Congress Done Early Financial Financial Services Industry Job Laws Led Making Protect Public Regulate Securities Services Since Steps Taking Which Worse 1930S

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The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for too-big-to-fail financial companies, who were handsomely compensated for taking risks that almost ruined the economy when they failed.

~Gary Weiss

Topics: Almost Companies Crisis Economy Executives Failed Financial Financial Crisis Heart Reckless Risks Ruined Taking Taking Risks Were Who Working

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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