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Guest post: Poll on Jamie Dimon and follow up

…others who have called for Dimon’s resignation include former Wall Street prosecutor and New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, Massachusetts Senatorial candidate Elizabeth Warren, and today,…

Some People Call Me Mau-rice

…lot closer to The Real Story, even ignoring the familial nature of the charges that began this whole discussion. So Buce’s conclusion is, I believe, accurate: Eliot Spitzer did not…

What Is to be Done ?

…we should look to publicity hungry TV camera chasing ambitious prosecutors who want to obtain higher elective office (think Eliot Spitzer and Rudolf Giulaini). My “logic” follows. First the coulda…

What about the OCC ruling?

…you are probably thinking about the one that got Elliot Spitzer and the other 48 AG’s pissed off. That one certainly needs to be reversed. Infact, the AG is going…

WAPO on AIG III

…AAA to AA when Eliot “socks on” Spitzer caught him cooking the books. On March 14, 2005, Greenberg stepped down amid allegations about his involvement in a questionable deal and…

DC Madam and Emperor Club cases

…in this matter and the interest of the media compared to the speed with which Eliot Spitzer name became notorious in a similar DC case significant? One guess as to…

Milton Friedman on Sarbanes-Oxley

…was brought to surface by [New York Attorney General] Eliot Spitzer, so it was some government and some prosecution. It certainly wasn’t the SEC. The SEC was asleep at the…