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            <title><![CDATA[Inside Dick Fuld's Bunker]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Home transfers, apartment sales, art liquidations, dragged-out tax payments. William Cohan on life in exile for the disgraced former CEO of Lehman Brothers.
In the months following the collapse of his firm, Dick Fuld, the longtime chairman and CEO of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Schooled Wall Street]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[M&A legend Bruce Wasserstein, who died Wednesday at 61, showed Wall Street that business could be done profitably and relatively risk-free-without bringing down the system or impoverishing taxpayers.
Bruce Wasserstein, the Wall Street M&A titan who...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unnecessary Meltdown]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A year ago today, Wall Street imploded. But as William Cohan reports, a little-known meeting two years earlier started the runaway snowball-and also could have prevented the catastrophe.
As we parse through the rubble of the one-year anniversary of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Holes in Obama's Wall Street Plan]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The president unveiled his plan to regulate the financial industry on Wednesday, a blueprint full of lots of a good individual ideas. But, William D. Cohan says, it completely misses the consistent thread that prompted the economic collapse: Wall...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:02:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bear Stearns' Trail of 'Lies']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[An unearthed filing reveals the prosecutors' playbook against the two $1.5 billion hedge fund managers whose indictment helped expose the mortgage crisis.
The government's case against two Bear Stearns hedge-fund managers, Ralph Cioffi and Matthew...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 22 May 2009 05:51:02 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bankers to Feel Sorry For]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lost amid the outrage over AIG bonuses are the stories of employees who were just doing their jobs.  New York Times best-selling author William D. Cohan, who wrote the Bear Stearns book House of Cards, on the story of 52-year-old Alex Manos.
Just as...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:58:39 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Top 5 Phony Scapegoats]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Angry Americans want people to blame for the financial mess-but c'mon. Are AIG, Tim Geithner, and John Thain really to blame for your retirement losses? William D. Cohan, author of House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, on...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:42:14 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Pot Helped Destroy Bear Stearns]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
In his new book House of Cards, William D. Cohan gets inside the company's spectacular collapse-and details how a shocking newspaper story...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wall Street's New Bonus Outrage]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The disclosure that near-bankrupt Merrill dished out a staggering $209 million for 10 bankers takes this scandal beyond the absurd-and possibly into criminal territory. Will the Feds prosecute?
The curious case of the obscene Merrill Lynch bonuses...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:07:36 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Citigroup's Last Best Hope]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Finding candidates for the Citigroup board shouldn't be hard-it's the ultimate fixer-upper. Meet six strong contenders to help Dick Parsons clean up the mess.
Much ink has been spilled lately about the challenging "hurdles" Citigroup-the US...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 02 Mar 2009 06:12:32 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Real Reason Bank Stocks Are Tanking]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As late as Friday, even as their stocks tanked, America's banking leaders were still in denial. No wonder they have no credibility.
So why are our largest money-center banks-you know, the ones that are supposed to be the survivors of the financial...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 22 Feb 2009 08:15:24 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let Wall Street Fail]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Spending $1 trillion to fix the banks and investment firms isn't the answer to our financial problems. Just let the market decide who and what survives.
In response to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's still-amorphous plan to prop up what remains of...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:00:46 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bear Stearns Lucky Bastards]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Thanks to a secret settlement, a small group of Bear Stearns investors is getting back every cent they lost. The Daily Beast's William D. Cohan on who's pocketing $1 million checks-and why Wall Street is furious.
A small group of lucky Massachusetts...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:01:44 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Highest Paid Man on Wall Street]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[While just about every top banking executive declined a bonus this year, a relatively unknown former Lehman Brothers snagged himself a $25 million a year contract. Some are crying foul.
Addendum: this article has been updated to include a statement...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:54:08 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How Lazard Is Making Millions Off Defunct Lehman]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Lehman and Lazard have been rivals for decades. It looks like Lazard's got the last laugh.
God love investment bankers, they'll always figure out a way to make money even in the middle of one of the worst markets for financial services in a century....]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:59:03 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Restaurant/Food]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a place generating more Buzz, with a capital B, than Locanda Verde, Andrew Carmellini's newish Italian restaurant on Greenwich Street in the heart of Tribeca. On the other hand, if delicious food, beautiful people and black...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:36:13 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Magazine Article]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[For those who haven't taken the time to read historian Niall Ferguson's Newsweek cover story, An Empire at Risk, I highly recommend it as a timely, authoritative rendering of the dangers-and historical precedents-that lurk for those countries in...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:31:59 -0400]]></pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Buzz Board Pick - Film]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/beast-board/item/1119///]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Recently, I saw two films of such stark contrasts that one can only step back and marvel at the complexity and richness of the human condition. First up was The White Ribbon-director Michael Haneke's latest film and the winner of the 2009 Palme D'Or at...]]></description>
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            <pubDate><![CDATA[Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:47:57 -0400]]></pubDate>
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