Local artist at Hastings
Jacob Breeden, a local artist hosted the first public display of a selection of new works from his LACUNA (construct) series Friday at the Hastings art space on Georgia Street. Photo by Ralph Duke
Last Updated (Friday, 03 September 2010 20:56)
Banks' Self-Dealing Super-Charged Financial Crisis - ProPublicaby Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, 7 minutes ago Over the last two years of the housing bubble, Wall Street bankers perpetrated one of the greatest episodes of self-dealing in financial history. Faced with increasing difficulty in selling the mortgage-backed securities that had been among their most lucrative products, the banks hit on a solution that preserved their quarterly earnings and huge bonuses: Last Updated (Thursday, 26 August 2010 20:28) |
A Q&A About Our Investigation on Banks2019 Self-Dealing - ProPublicaby Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger ProPublica, Yesterday, 5:05 p.m.Last week, in partnership with NPR's "Planet Money," we published an investigation about how Wall Street banks created fake demand in the run-up to the housing meltdown, increasing their bonuses -- and ultimately making the crisis worse. We asked for your questions, and now here are our reporters' answers. Last Updated (Friday, 03 September 2010 21:02) |











