In today’s Investor’s Business Daily, Paul Katzeff quotes a psychiatrist as saying, “Cheating with money is a form of infidelity. … It can be even more devastating than sexual infidelity.”

Today’s New York Post reports that “Merrill brokers [are] wary of Krawcheck redeemption.” ...

UBS has stepped up its courtship of former Merrill executive Bob McCann, discussions that began in June, according to a story in the Financial Times. If he is hired, he would replace Marten Hoekstra, head of UBS’s wealth management business...

There is a growing chorus of analysts and money managers who say that China is bubble that is bound to pop. Morgan Stanley analyst Andy Xie wrote in a research report released Monday that a Chinese asset bubble will most definitely burst in the...

Time magazine in January wrote a story detailing Bush's biggest economic blunders. Of course, as popular magazines often do, Time names "tax cuts for the rich" as the third-biggest blunder. Never mind that almost all agree that Bush's tax cuts...

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CHRISTOPHER DODD, U.S. Senator, Connecticut LAST YEAR'S CHALLENGE: As chairman of the powerful Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs Committee and the longest serving Senator in Connecticut's history, Dodd is at the nexus of any financial system...