He made his big splash in 1973 with his best-selling takedown of stock-picking, A Random Walk Down Wall Street, in which he illustrated the futility of accurately predicting future stock prices, noting how a blindfolded chimpanzee throwing darts at the stock page of a newspaper could pick winners as well as a Wall Street professional.
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The proverbial wall of money, as well as being a sign of confidence in the stockmarket, is used by many as an argument for why it will climb higher.
You believed that after an era of selfishness and greed, that we could reclaim a sense of responsibility on Wall Street and in Washington, as well as on Main Street.
While a number of those efforts have been controversial, Geithner remains a well-regarded figure from Wall Street to Washington.
After all, the worst that has happened, at least so far, is that the well paid kids of Wall Street were inconvenienced for a couple of hours in the Flash Crash.
To capitalize on the earth-friendly factor, architect Robert Maschke suggested the Brahlers use an insulating eco-roof as well as a green exterior wall covered with layers of soil.
The Wall Street Journal reviewed comparative data and came up with the best characteristics of a well-run, affordable 401(k) plan.
The company posted a long string of disappointing quarters, coming in well below Wall Street expectations.
Defenders of Occupy Wall Street may well argue that it was never meant to be a political power, but rather a cultural force, more like the counterculture of the '60s than a new civil rights movement.
While it is true that U.S. investment banks and other institutions could make their case on Capitol Hill concerning lost profits if a foreign enterprise's access to, for example, the U.S. bond market was restricted due to proliferation concerns, it is unlikely that there would be a great outpouring of political sympathy for generally well-healed Wall Street players.
The operating model not only worked well, it was the envy of the industry and a darling on Wall Street.
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At the start of his first term, Obama's pick to lead the Treasury Department, Timothy Geithner, emerged from a tough confirmation fight in the wake of recession to help push through Wall Street reform as well as the banking and auto industry rescues.
However, a lot of the gains on Wall Street are among the big name companies who are doing very well in the big emerging markets.
The most well-known example is the Occupy Wall Street effort, which made a scapegoat of "the 1%" in the hope of unifying 99% of the population against it.
Cuomo has opened a number of investigations into Wall Street, including the auction-rate probes, which continue, as well as activities in the credit default swap market and other signs of alleged fraud.
His train was high atop a slender viaduct across a flat valley, and immediately ahead of him was train D3115, moving so slowly that it might as well have been a wall.
Wall Street was a sea of red at 11:32 AM in New York, with all three major equity indexes well in the red.
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It was a mostly mixed day on Wall Street as investors took in a weaker than expected jobless claims report as well as news that the Bank of Japan will expand the supply of money in a effort to boost its economy.
In his once well-appointed office, a portrait of Slobodan Milosevic, in Napoleonic pose, dominates the wall above his desk.
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