Years Later, SEC Looks for Basic Information About Key Players in Financial Meltdown

Almost three years since banks started taking losses that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Securities and Exchange Commission is still asking basic questions about what happened. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via ProPublica
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Dec 16, 2009 - 12:40 PM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Dec 17, 2009 - 7:16 AM PST

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Derek Hawkins
3.8
by Derek Hawkins - Dec. 17, 2009

Few news organizations are better equipped than ProPublica and Planet Money to hold SEC's feet to the fire. This is part "gotcha," part investigation, a bit newsier than many ProPublica stories. Simple, relevant and well done.

“One wonders why this letter, especially given the general nature of it, is just now being sent. And why wasn’t it sent several years ago, as the More »

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Kaizar Campwala
3.8
by Kaizar Campwala - Dec. 21, 2009

A very fair update on what the SEC is up to, effectively highlighting how slow the regulatory agency continues to be in disentangling the financial crisis.

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