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27 Dec 2006, 2:48 pm
From the New York Times: By GRETCHEN MORGENSON Published: December 20, 2006 "The NASD, the nation’s largest self-regulatory organization for the securities industry, accused Morgan Stanley yesterday of routinely failing to provide e-mail messages to aggrieved customers who had filed... [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 4:53 am by By DEALBOOK
Days before shareholders approved Bank of America's purchase of Merrill Lynch in December 2008, top executives were told that the investment firm's losses would most likely hammer future earnings, Gretchen Morgenson reports in The New York Times. [read post]
25 Jan 2009, 7:37 am
Posted by Jeff Lipshaw Although I sometimes wonder if all the various behavioral psychology theories ultimately cancel each other out (sort of like Karl Llewellyn's famous table of contradictory construction axioms), Gretchen Morgenson's New York Times column on credit default... [read post]
10 Feb 2014, 10:45 am by Paul Caron
At the IRS, Trying to Collect More With Less, by Anna Bernasek Sounding the Tax Alarm, to Little Applause, by Gretchen Morgenson A Taste Test for Three Flavors of Tax Software, by Tim Gray Try Your Luck, at the IRS Wheel, by John Schwartz Victory, and Tax Changes, for Same-Sex... [read post]
15 Jan 2013, 1:22 am by Paul Caron
New York Times: Paying the Price, but Often Deducting It, by Gretchen Morgenson: With multibillion-dollar mortgage settlements making headlines this year and last, the question has come to the fore again. [read post]
23 Jul 2015, 1:00 pm by Paul Caron
Targets Tax Dodge by Private Equity Firms, by Gretchen Morgenson: The Internal Revenue Service on Wednesday proposed a rule aimed at ending a common and lucrative practice among private equity firms that allows them to artificially lower their partners’ personal income tax bills. [read post]
21 Oct 2010, 10:15 am by Paul Caron
New York Times, Battle Lines Forming in Clash Over Foreclosures, by Gretchen Morgenson & Andrew Martin: Now those missing and possibly fraudulent documents are at the center of a potentially seismic legal clash that pits big lenders against homeowners and their advocates concerned that the lenders’ rush to foreclose flouts... [read post]
12 Mar 2012, 2:00 am by Paul Caron
New York Times, Revisiting a $400 Million Tax Break, by Gretchen Morgenson: Would you stop to pick up $400 million? [read post]
7 May 2012, 3:21 am by Stephen Lubben
Gretchen Morgenson, in Mortgage Unit Troubles Ally Financial explains that: Although repurchase claimants would be considered general unsecured creditors in a ResCap bankruptcy, the put-back demands would very likely be somewhat senior to those of other unsecured creditors because of their contractual nature. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 9:36 am by propertyprof
Since I've been blogging incessantly about the grinding, often needless, sometimes unlawful, disaster that is the foreclosure wave, I was heartened to read in this week's New York Times an article by Gretchen Morgenson that acknowledged both the irrationality of... [read post]
26 Jun 2011, 11:40 pm by By DEALBOOK
Some of the evidence that has emerged about Morgan Keegan's treatment of certain investors may not be allowed into arbitration proceedings that were initiated earlier, Gretchen Morgenson writes in The New York Times, despite the brokerage firm's recent $200 million settlement with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority. [read post]
28 Apr 2016, 3:00 am by Paul Caron
New York Times: Fantasy Math Is Helping Companies Spin Losses Into Profits, by Gretchen Morgenson: Companies, if granted the leeway, will surely present their financial results in the best possible light. [read post]
Gretchen Morgenson has an interesting article about an initiative being run by NYC's comptroller, Scott Stringer. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 9:03 pm by Walter Olson
More arrows aimed at the Times's Gretchen Morgenson, this time over her Sunday column warning of the shock horror menace of derivatives to government finance [Stone Street Advisors, Calculated Risk, Felix Salmon, Joe Weisenthal/Business Insider].... [read post]
28 Nov 2011, 7:29 am by White Collar Crime Prof Blogger
In yesterday's NYTimes, Gretchen Morgenson commented upon the movement to prevent the CFTC from bringing transparency to the swaps market. [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 4:46 am
The New York Times’s Gretchen Morgenson recounted on Sunday the plight of Craig Joffe, an investor who said he was told by UBS that these instruments were as safe and liquid as cash. [read post]
13 Aug 2007, 4:44 am
But, according to The New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson, for investor advocates, the potential for [...] [read post]
10 Dec 2007, 5:08 am
Investors everywhere should applaud the deal struck last week by the UnitedHealth Group to recover nearly $1 billion in pay from former executives involved in the company's option backdating mess, writes Gretchen Morgenson in The New York Times. [read post]
2 Apr 2012, 8:56 am by Thom Lambert
New York Times columnist Gretchen Morgenson is arguing for a “pre-clearance”  approach to regulating new financial products: The Food and Drug Administration vets new drugs before they reach the market. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 3:13 pm
For anyone trying to make sense out of credit markets, there's an interesting cage match under way between Gretchen Morgenson at the NY Times and blogger/journo Felix Salmon over everybody's current favorite bogeyman, the subprime market. [read post]