The Year in Wall Street Investigations

It's been over three years since credit markets started shaking with the early tremors of the subprime crisis, and two years since that spread into a marketwide collapse. Prosecutors, regulators, Congress and journalists have spent the year uncovering the financial shenanigans that brought the market to its knees. It's been marked by a few blockbuster settlements and more revealing investigations -- as well as by some noticeable inaction in the reckoning. Full Story »

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Derek Hawkins
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by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 28, 2010

This lays out the some of the key investigations and enforcement efforts regulators have undertaken in the past year against the major players in the financial crisis. You're left to decide for yourself how effective they've been on the whole. Overall, an informative, well sourced roundup. I would have liked to see more about how Dodd-Frank could change things next year.

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Kristin Gorski
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by Kristin Gorski - Dec. 28, 2010

An important wrap-up, as it's a complicated issue that is still ongoing and affections millions (billions?) of people worldwide. Links to an abundance of outside sources, providing additional context, information and balance.

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