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Lehman real estate whiz under the microscope
The New York Times takes a look at Mark Walsh's real estate empire at Lehman Brothers, where he built a reputation as "the most brilliant real estate financier on Wall Street." In the '90s, he pioneered "the art of lending to office building developers and then slicing up and repackaging the d
Life as a TARP wife
The wife of a big time financier whose firm has accepted billions in TARP funds has penned an article for Portfolio . "Confessions of a TARP wife" is all about her new "financial abstinence," which no longer includes "multi-star Michelin hotspots." The essay reads like a parody (as if cribb
What Stanford has wrought in Antigua?
R. Allen Stanford, before his firm imploded, was an outsized Texas figure in Antigua. Outside the government, he was the largest local employer. And, as Fortune notes, "the Texas banker built a flashy playground--the massive Stanford International Bank and the Bank of Antigua buildings, the Pavili
