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" In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance. "

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" When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command. "

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" Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor. "

" I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council. "

" Shorts wager on price declines by selling shares that they have borrowed in the hope of buying them back at far lower prices. "

" Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund. "

" The media and marketing deluge has spawned a new type of Wall Street loser: the armchair momentum player. These are novice investors who engage in short-term stock buying and selling based on media reports or an expert's enthusiasm. "

" Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one. "

" Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regulators and, above all, for investors because they have been prone to abuse by stock manipulators. "

" For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries. "

" When it comes to making laws that protect the public from the financial services industry, Congress has done a progressively worse job since the Pecora Commission hearings of the early 1930s, which led to Congress taking bold steps to regulate banking and securities firms in 1933 and 1934. "

" The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history. "

" With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal. "

" Newt Gingrich is a boastful kind of guy. But when it comes to Wall Street, the former House speaker is surprisingly modest. "

" India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history. "

" Short-sellers perform a useful function in the market as conduits of negative information, and shorts often complain that they are discriminated against by regulators. "

" People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy. "

" Debt collectors should be required to disclose the applicable statute of limitations in the body of their collection letters, in bold type. While it's not illegal to dun a consumer for an old debt, it is illegal to sue for one. "

" Conspiracy theories feed on opacity, and that's a longtime problem with short selling. Large long positions must be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in public filings, but not large short positions. "

" No other facet of American business is more corrupt, more intoxicated with illegality, more weakly regulated, and has a greater impact on poor and working people than debt collectors; not credit card companies or subprime mortgages, not even payday lenders. "

" MF Global used to be known as Man Financial, and it had a reasonably good reputation. It did a humdrum business placing commodities trades for fund managers as well as farmers, grain dealers and others whose livelihoods depend on the vagaries of commodity prices. "

" At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at their best, they provide meaty insights on just about every stock imaginable. "

" Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and state attorneys general. "

" I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute. "

" Numerous academic studies have shown that amateur investors make poor traders - buying stocks for the wrong reasons, holding losers for too long, and acting on whims and emotions. "

" I found that options traders - the Amex was mainly an options exchange - routinely conspired to keep as wide as possible the spreads between the prices investors paid and the prices floor traders paid for the same securities. "

" With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they cause have been exacerbated. "

" Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively preachy in their attitude toward other nations. That accusation is sometimes correct. "

" George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life. "

" I'm not an ultra-libertarian who thinks there shouldn't be insider-trading laws at all. "

" The flip side of humiliation is pride. "