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Today’s featured ebook download is Causes and Effects of the Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy (123 KB, 26 pg) – I argue that the demise of Lehman Brothers is the result of its very aggressive leverage policy in the context of a major financial crisis. The roots …

One day after the UK Financial Services Authority pulled a similar stunt, the SEC temporarily banned the short selling of almost 800 financial stocks. According to the ban, on October 3rd short selling can resume.
With the news on Friday, financial stocks rallied.
Here’s the list …

The reason for the bail out is that a failure of such a large insurer would disrupt the financial markets and could tip an already teetering economy.
AIG, American International Group Inc, will get up to $85 billion in a 2 year loan. The government …