Larry Doyle
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SEC Brief May Help Auction-Rate Securities Investors
37 months and counting and still thousands of Americans holding untold billions of dollars in frozen auction-rate securities await the return of THEIR money. The... Read »
Washington’s Dysfunction on Display
Why do Americans get so fixated on the personally destructive stories of Casey Anthony, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Anthony Weiner, and the like? Because watching and... Read »
Exposing Uncle Sam’s Waste, Fraud, and Corruption
With fiscal deficits stretching out as far as the eye can see and politicians focused largely on tomorrow’s polling numbers or their next election, who the hell... Read »
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hits FINRA Hard
Would your blood start to boil if you felt a hand in your back pocket going for your wallet? Damn right it would. Then your blood should also boil when the topic... Read »
Egan-Jones Officially Cuts U.S. Credit Rating
Cutting a credit rating is significantly different that placing it on ‘watch’ or ‘under review’. Most readers are likely fully aware that Standard and Poor’s... Read »
Jim Cramer: “The SEC Isn’t Watching the Store”
I will readily admit I am not a big fan of CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Perhaps it is more Jim Cramer’s style than his substance but for whatever reasons, I very rarely... Read »
Car Title Loans: “There to Rip You Off”
What is your mental image of a business which earns a 300% annualized rate of interest? Did somebody say, “shady characters hanging out on a street corner with... Read »
Reinhart, Rogoff, and Bhide Warn America and World
I love reading the work of intelligent economic ‘giants’ who both get it and eloquently share it. On a daily basis we suffer from the charlatans roaming the... Read »
Which Bank Is Leveraged 104:1?
The road to hell is paved with positive carry. Those in financial circles likely know that the above quote is a colloquialism used to highlight that excessive... Read »
‘Murdoch’s Watergate?’: “The Most Important Story in the World in the Last 25 Years”
Although I write primarily on issues directly relating to finance and the economy with a particular focus on investor education and investor protection, when the... Read »







