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Bad for the Customer, Good for the Stock Price: Wait, What?
Bill Bachrach has a business somewhat like mine, though with a specific vertical industry focus: he teaches people to become trusted professionals in the field of financial planning. I’ve read much of...
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The Trust Buzz of 2010: The Summer of Trust?
There’s a lot of buzz about "trust" this year. Just look at the headlines: BP, Goldman Sachs, Toyota, Tylenol . . . . But the question remains, is all this talk going any where? Have we figured out how...
View ArticleWhistle Blowers Redux
Many of you remember Sherron Watkins, who shall forever be known as the Whistle Blower of Enron. She was named Person of the Week by Time Magazine back in early 2002. But Sherron was no fly-by-night....
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The Best Movie You Haven’t Heard Of: Inside Job
Here are the ratings (% who liked) from Flixster for some of the movies playing this weekend: 90% The Social Network 88% Inside Job 81% Unstoppable 78%...
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Trust & Investment Banking: Interview with The Epicurean Dealmaker
The Epicurean Dealmaker is the nom de plume of an investment banker who has written a blog by that name since January 2007. TED (as I’ll refer to him henceforth) recently achieved a measure of fame, or...
View ArticleThe Ugly Truth Behind Goldman Director’s Resignation
A few hours ago, the New York Times published a blistering Op Ed by Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs director, titled Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs. It is getting remarkable coverage in the twittersphere,...
View ArticleThe Tyranny of Low Cost Strategies and the Gospel of Walmart
High Frequency Trading is in the news again. HFT is highly computerized stock trading, which secures faster execution for bigger computers located physically closer to the stock exchange. It now...
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Six Reasons We Don’t Trust Wall Street
In 2013, finance is the least trusted industry globally. It hasn’t always been this way. Within the industry, it’s tempting to think that trust can be regained by reputation management. Reputation is...
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Trust Hero: Brad Katsuyama, on CBS 60 Minutes
Michael Lewis’s new book Flash Boys goes on sale at Amazon this morning, March 31. The headline, as he put it in Sunday’s exquisitely timed CBS 60 Minutes – “The stock market is rigged.” And it’s...
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Michael Lewis, Wall Street, and Trust
Right after Michael Lewis’s 60-Minutes appearance to promote his new book Flash Boys I wrote a blogpost about it. The next day I received a phone call from a retail stock broker. His tone was somewhere...
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