Gary Weiss
Gary Weiss
Gary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street. He was also a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. His Business Week articles exposed organized crime on Wall Street and the Salomon Brothers bond trading scandal in the 1990s, and more recently he has covered the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Weiss is co-founder of The Mideast Reporter...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
CountryUnited States of America
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
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Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intellectual cancer of our times: conspiracy theories.
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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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Legitimate institutions historically have been defenseless in the face of outright fraud.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all.
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George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
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Despite all the drawbacks, the Internet provides a wide array of information - and some of it is being watched pretty carefully by the pros.
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No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders.
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Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct.
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Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.