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Do the sudden deaths of young men in finance mean the already-difficult job of working on Wall Street has gotten even
tougher in the aftermath of the financial crisis? 

A case study of one unhappy investor's attempts to get the federal courts to overrule a decision in his securities arbitration case.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara delivers some refreshing straight talk when he says the pendulum has swung too far away from criminal prosecutions of Wall Street banks and executives. 

Very few hedge-fund managers are as widely and consistently acclaimed as Seth Klarman, the 56-year-old
founder of the Boston-based Baupost Group. 

In the cruel irony department comes the saga of Jill Wile, a former manager in the southeast regional office of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the self-policing group for brokerages.

Goldman’s hiring of Alice Murphy is remarkable because she is one
of the rare people whose former employer, Merrill Lynch, has denied her paid “gardening leave” before departing. 

By paying $19 billion for WhatsApp’s 55 employees, Facebook has crystallized why it's been so hard for the U.S. to climb out of the unemployment ditch dug by the financial crisis.

n a never-ending quest for more and more of the dreaded “likes,” Facebook is manipulating unsuspecting teenagers into becoming walking, talking and clicking billboards for advertisers and marketers.

Thanks in large part to Bernanke’s policies, the rich have
never been richer and the gulf between the haves and have-nots has never been
wider. No wonder billionaires like Bernanke.