What is clear is that this crisis could have been avoided if Wall Street firms were more accountable, if financial dealings were more transparent, and if consumers and shareholders were given more information and authority to make decisions.

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"Occupy Wall Street is simply carrying on the tradition of what this church has been for decades, " said Mr. Brashear, the church's pastor for 15 years.

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This is what much of the modern Wall Street titans have realized better than anybody else.

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And Main Street investors should keep an eye on this case because of what is NOT described in the criminal indictment.

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And in fact, what we're advocating is--is taking this to Wall Street.

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This is what I meant when I talked about mortgages being sold back to Wall Street.

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This is what the rogue administrative law judges exposed by the article in The Wall Street Journal have been doing.

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There's no telling what price the shares would command on the open market today, but this much is clear: Wall Street is cool to new issues these days.

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Even if that is not what Downing Street is up to, the past behaviour of the prime minister's spin doctors will leave many suspecting this is what is going on.

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While Apple has a long history of low-balling guidance, CEO Tim Cook on the post-report conference call appeared to be telling the Street that Apple really means what it said this time, and that the projected revenue range for FY Q2 is really what the company thinks it will post.

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