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The Financial Collapse
Among the findings in this package are: In February, Morgenson warned that the arcane contracts known as credit-default swaps were so volatile and explosive that they would "set off a chain reaction of losses at financial institutions." In May, she examined the moves by private investment firms to buy up hundreds of New York apartment buildings, betting that they could evict tenants and raise rents. In July, she reported on the enormous increase in consumer debt and the changes in the lending system that encouraged risky loans. In September, she dissected the small London Investment unit that had bedazzled the insurance giant AIG with its profits but soon brought it to its knees and helped trigger a widespread collapse. In November, she profiled the reckless executives who gambled on subprime home mortgages and led Merrill Lynch to its demise. In December, she held the credit-rating agencies to sharp account, in particular Moody's, showing how they had minimized or overlooked the dangers to investors.
Tags: AIG; credit-default swaps; Wall Street; Merill Lynch; Federal Reserve; columnists
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The New McCarthyism
The Progressive probes the threat to free speech after Sept. 11. "The FBI and Secret Service are harassing artists and activists. Publishers are firing anti-war columnists and cartoonists. University presidents are scolding dissident faculty members. And right-wing citizen's groups are demanding conformity."
Tags: democracy; human rights; freedom of speech; First Amendment; treason accusations; anti-war movement
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Getting away with murder, Truth elusive in old murder, Chief: 1995 murder case will stay open, Shady elements link cases, Elusive businessman had tie to murder victim
The Tribune-Democrat revisits the 1995 murder of Deanna Horner. Six years later, the case remains unsolved, and when columnist Susan Evans re-examined the circumstances surrounding the murder she found some "disturbing" questions which may link Horner's death to a Florida mobster and shady real estate deals.
Tags: unsolved murder; Deanna Horner; Johnston; real estate; mob
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The Saga of Lernout & Hauspie
The Street.com investigates "accounting and other irregularities and misstatements at Lernout & Hauspie, a Belgian maker of speech-recogniton software that counted Microsoft and Intel among its largest investors." The stories detail the period of soaring stock price of the Belgian company, although at the same the firm has filed only the minimum required financials with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation shows that the story about Lernout's booming sales has been fake. The columnist reveals "it wasn't until Lernout filed 10-Qs and 10-Ks [annual and quarterly reports] that the full magnitude of its troubles became clearly evident."
Tags: diskette; SEC; stock; sales; technology; financial reports; Microsoft; Intel
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Crossing the Line
Milwaukee Magazine looks at why one local commentator is creating such a stir with his remarks about race and politics. "Columnist Eugene Kane has become a target for angry whites because of his frank observations. Does Kane play the race card, or is he just what segregated Milwaukee needs?"
Tags: Racism; Race; African Americans
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By Their Quirks Ye Shall Know Them
This Time columnist writes about the distinguishing characteristics of Bill Bradley, George W. Bush, John McCain and Al Gore. The author maintains, "Voters have learned the hard way that character matters, that you need to know who someone is much more than you need to know what his tax pla entails."
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Bomb trail leads only to questions
Times Union columnist Dan Lynch examines a bombing case and the death of the chief suspect in the case. Neither is as clear cut as they seem to be and the police aren't talking. Lynch's subsequent columns led to a court case forcing the cops to open thier files.
Tags: None
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The last cop story
Columnist Mike McAlary received an anonymous tip that two white police officers had beaten and sodomized a black man, Abner Louima, in custody. The case went national and then international. Police brutality became a major political issue again.
Tags: Police brutality; racism
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New York Daily News examines career and written work of sociologist, author and Forbes columnist Srully Blotnick, finding some of his work fraudulently presented and his claims about his background misleading or false, July 19 - 23, 1987.
Tags: NY credentials
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Santa Rosa (Calif.) Press-Democrat profiles the 10 most powerful people in Sonoma County, as chosen by the influential people themselves; allows these powerful people to be quoted without their names being used; finds those people considered most powerful include a newspaper columnist, a financier, and the city manager, Dec. 4 - 13, 1988.
Tags: Silver Swartz Trione Blackman LeBaron Bosco Carpenter Codding Golis Hansen Nicholas Wilson