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The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Bleeker & Williamson |
Who's More to Blame: The SEC or Fannie and Freddie? March Madness series: Which government-ish entity do you choose? The SEC has more than enough complicity in this mess, but Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were set up to fail from the start.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Barker & Magyer |
Who's More to Blame: The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act or Alan Greenspan? March Madness series: The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act deserves the blame, or maybe it's Alan Greenspan's fault, for making borrowing too cheap.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Morgan Housel |
Who's More to Blame: The American Consumer or Wall Street? March Madness series: Wall Street says it's the fault of the American consumer, who was greedy and irresponsible. On the other hand, there's never been a time when Wall Street's complexity has exploded so while risk was completely ignored.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Mueller & Dumortier |
Who's More to Blame: Mortgage Banking CEOs or Geeks Bearing Formulas? March Madness series: The financial crisis started right here, by giving a mortgage to anyone with a pulse. Or maybe it started with the model-building geeks in finance who made it possible for their banks to do the damage they did?  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Chokkavelu & Lomax |
Who's More to Blame: Kate Hudson or Bernie Madoff? March Madness series: It's clearly Kate Hudson's fault, for not providing us with enough diverting entertainment during the crisis, or is Bernie Madoff the perfect symbol of all that went terribly wrong.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Smith & Smith |
Who's More to Blame: Congress or the Ratings Agencies? U.S. taxpayers have been handed a $700 billion TARP bill and told to bail out banks "too big to fail." Well, it was Congress who let the banks become too big in the first place. Or did the ratings agencies fail to provide in-depth and accurate analyses of the contents of mortgage-stuffed securities?  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Caplinger & Bylund |
Who's More to Blame: Ben Bernanke or Credit Derivatives? March Madness series: The derivatives that are behind this debacle have been around a lot longer than the three years that Bernanke has headed the Fed. Are they to blame? Or should Ben Bernanke have been more direct in calling for changes to be made?  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 |
Today's 5-Star Movers A list of today's top-moving stocks from the Motley Fool five-star stock list.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
SINA Looks Over the Edge China's new media specialist branches out, but is it out on a limb? SINA has suffered a dramatic plunge in its brand advertising stronghold this year.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2009 Selena Maranjian |
Investing Lessons From Tom Petty The waiting is the hardest part. Many great fortunes, like Warren Buffett's, have taken decades to build.  |
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