Science & Technology – Week of 08.25.13

By Barry Ritholtz “What’s happened is that, almost overnight, we’ve switched from democracy in real-property recording to oligarchy in real-property recording. There was no court

A broker reported to me today that their clearing agent is requiring them to mark purchases of AAA sovereign bonds denominated in foreign currencies as

With midterm elections less than three months away, nearly two-out-of-three U.S. voters (65%) remain at least somewhat angry at the current policies of the federal

By Nelson D. Schwartz and Louise Story The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation’s big banks did not benefit just the bankers — it also created