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Wall Street: Buying Tomorrow by Jennifer Szalai; Rest Assured 2010: Before a crowd of about seven hundred at New York’s Cooper Union, President Obama outlined his straightforward plan for...; Hook, Line, and Sinker “Dow Below 7,000 for the First Time Since 1997,” The New York Times, Mar. 2, 2009. Investor concerns...; All the Money’s Gone “The End,” by Michael Lewis, Condé Nast Portfolio, December 2008. “You have to understand this,” Eisman says. “This...; Bonus Babies “Thain's Bonus, (S)Mack’d,” Condé Nast Portfolio Online, Dec. 8, 2008. Well, that didn't take long, did it? John...; Put Your Financial House in Order “Derivatives and Dangerous Times,” by Robert Lenzner, Forbes.com, Sept. 16, 2008. When Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain entered the Federal...; Playing by the Rules “Leveraged Buy-outs: Private Investigations,” The Economist, July 3, 2008. IN FINANCE, as in Greek tragedy, one of the...; Seven of Diamonds “Prosecutors Build Bear Stearns Case on E-Mails,” The New York Times, June 20, 2008. In...; Washington Irving Beholds the Stuff that Dreams Are Made Of 1837 / New York City