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Dueling Columnists, by Clark Hoyt: A surprising disagreement has broken out
between two Times columnists, with Paul Krugman demanding an apology from Andrew
Ross Sorkin and Sorkin so far refusing to back down.
The argument is over what approach
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...Ross Sorkin has got his hands on what looks for all the world like a pro-forma piece of legal CYA out of Goldman Sachs, and is trying to turn it into a story: For years, Wall Street whispered that Goldman Sachs profited handsomely by trading ahead of — or...
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and--AND--did you hear how he said about Mack and the crackpipe but gave you NO CREDIT?
@2 I saw that too. what a prick.
He actually sounds like Spitzer. Pretty awkward.
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Hell, yes, the Fed should pop asset bubbles. If we can all agree on what's a bubble. And that's the problem...
Brian Roberts is no dummy. Here's
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Too Big to Fail is based on remarkable access to the main players in the financial crisis.
It's very important that the reader is able to see what these people thought and said to each other during this calamitous period. And I think that when you get
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It's been said daily journalism is the first draft of history. Barely a year after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Andrew Ross Sorkin, the boy-wonder reporter for The New York Times, has bashed out no less than 539 riveting pages amounting to a second
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Andrew Ross Sorkin seems badly confused about the Fed and bank obligations in his NYT column this morning. When it comes to the Fed, he warns against the idea of making the institution more transparent and accountable to Congress based on warnings from
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In the New York magazine profile earlier this month, Andrew Ross Sorkin said that one of the ways he’s able to land big sources is by not being “adversarial or coming to the table with an ax to grind.” The piece also claimed that many of ARS’s
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Andrew Ross Sorkin is a New York Times financial columnist, the editor of Dealbook, a popular financial blog, and most recently, the author of Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System --
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So Charlie Gasparino and Ken Feinberg had a 20 martini dinner last night, which came after Chaz’s keynote address at the Directorship 100. Gaspo told a captive audience that the Compensation Cop “has Wall Street by the stugats.” Before all that, though,
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...York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin online media mogul and business page columnist has found an unlikely ally. As you may already know, Sorkin has aroused the ire of some of his fellow New York Times denizens. A few of them believe he lifted a story from a team...
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New York Times Andrew Ross Sorkin online media mogul and business page columnist has found an unlikely ally.
As you may already know, Sorkin has aroused the ire of some of his fellow New York Times denizens. A few of them believe he lifted a story from
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New York Times wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin makes $250,000 a year — including a Wall Street-like bonus based on how his DealBook blog performs — even as newsroom layoffs loom. No wonder everyone hates him.
In a profile of the 32-year-old Too Big to
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Sorkin has another crucial advantage in the world he’s traveling in: He gives good son. “There’s something about his boyish, Jimmy Stewart charm that the older men he deals with find incredibly winning,” Graydon Carter says.
The big New York profile
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Some of his antagonists in the newsroom wonder what, in the end, his privileged access is in the service of. "It's the Jon Stewart question," one senior Times staffer said, referencing Stewart's memorable takedown of CNBC's pre-meltdown boosterism. The
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Andrew Ross Sorkin, chief mergers and acquisitions reporter at the New York
Times, has written that book – a book where you relive the process, tiny
detail by tiny detail.
In Too Big To Fail we witness Lehman Brothers chief executive Dick Fuld
rolling
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Ever since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s All The President’s Men (1974),
American reporters have imitated their novelistic style, turning attention
to detail — itself a good thing — into a fetish. Andrew Ross Sorkin of The
New York Times has
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The magazine has been reaching out to business journalists and colleagues of Sorkin's, says a veteran business news editor.
Could Sorkin land the cover? Will Sorkin's friends, foes and frenemies sell him out? The magazine doesn't comment on stories it
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I'm starting to get the hang of this interview thing...of course it's easier when the guy on the other side of the table grew up in the same town. Sadly he is so much younger than I, that we only knew a few of the same teachers--Mr. Sloan and Ms.
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Signs of life on the economic front this week as new data shows a 3.5% growth in the U.S. economy. Largely fueled by government spending, can this growth be sustained, will the economy be fully restored, and when will American workers see jobs return?
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Andrew Ross Sorkin turned in maybe my favorite presentation of the day as he discussed his book on the economic collapse, Too Big to Fail.
I'm not particularly a junkie of financial journalism. But I am an admirer of reporters who are able to take
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1. Freakonomics Boys Study Hookers’ Demand Curves, Bombers 10/28
2. Ayn Rand, Goddess of the Market, Led a Soap-Opera Life 10/20
3. Paulson Knocks Heads, Fuld Rages in Sorkin’s Tick-Tock 10/23
4. Malcolm Gladwell Explains Serial Killers, Nassim
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JPMorgan, Goldman and Morgan Stanley recently reported whopping
quarterly profits, perhaps signaling a record year for U.S. financial
institutions -- only one year after the government offered $700 billion
in life suport at American taxpayers' expense.
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APPaulson: decisive if not always wise
LAST year, as Lehman Brothers tottered, there was briefly hope that Barclays Bank would ride in with an 11th-hour bid. But the British government, fearful of contracting the American cancer, took fright and
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A week after the release of his book on the Wall Street meltdown, The New York Times' star mergers-and-acquisitions reporter, Andrew Ross Sorkin, is attracting uncharacteristic disdain from colleagues who claim he's a glory hog.
"He's self-promotional,"
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We think this story is probably 100% nonsense, but we're still amused by the New York Post's attempt to cause trouble at the New York Times.
A week after the release of his book on the Wall Street meltdown, The New York Times' star
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One Monday last October, Dick Fuld walked through a Washington hearing room filled with sign-waving protestors to testify before Congress about the demise of Lehman Bros., the venerable Wall Street investment banking firm that he had led into
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Andrew Ross Sorkin has reached out to Larry Fink to smooth over any bad feelings created by a sentence in his book Too Big To Fail claiming that BlackRock's balance sheet was weighed down by billions on subprime loans. In fact, BlackRock was healthy
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The Daily Beast presents the five most revealing and cinema-ready scenes from New York Times wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book
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Allan Dodds Frank speaks to Andrew Ross Sorkin about his new book, Too Big to Fail, how Geithner emerged as the savior of the bank
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Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big to
Fail” is almost too big to read: 600 packed pages recounting,
blow by BlackBerried blow, how Wall Street and Washington
struggled to save the financial system (and their own skins).
I say
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This week marks the official publication of the longest, most comprehensive, and highest-priced ($32.95!) work of Crisis Lit yet, New York Times reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin's epic Too Big to Fail, which clocks in at a whopping 539 pages (minus the
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From Charlie Rose on PBS, Andrew Ross Sorkin discusses his new book Too Big to Fail. I highly recommend watching the entire interview if you've got an hour to spare. Wall
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The big joke about the party for the publication of Andrew Ross Sorkin's Too Big to Fail was that we would all get to see who Sorkin's sources were.
And it turns out now we know: everyone is a source for Sorkin.
The party was thrown last night at the
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Charlie Rose sits down with Andrew Ross Sorkin to discuss the global economic crisis and the players who inhabited the story. Ross Sorkin is an award-winning American journalist and author of a new book Too Big to Fail. He is a financial columnist for
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The secret Paulson-Goldman meeting, by Felix Salmon:
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book is
out today, and breaks some pretty stunning news, dating from the end of June,
2008. At this point, we’re still months away from the now-famous but
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Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big To Fail" describes, in intimate detail, the days leading up to the collapse of the biggest financial institutions in America. Did the men in that room pull us from the brink or push us over?
"I think they saw that the
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...Ross Sorkin, assistant editor of financial news, is answering questions from readers Oct. 19-23, 2009, in Talk to The Times. Questions may be e-mailed to askthetimes@nytimes.com. Mr. Sorkin wrote his first article for The New York Times when he was 18 years...
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We just got our copies of Andrew Ross Sorkin's new book in the mail, and BOY, is it huge. It will be a while before we have anything to say about the book's contents, but we had to take it to the deli across the street to get it weighed.
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Now there’s talk inside Goldman that it is considering making a huge charitable donation — perhaps more than $1 billion — as a way to help deflect the criticism. Such a donation would be a welcome gesture that would no doubt benefit many needy
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If you have not had your fill of nonfiction pieces wherein the
author relives some week in 2008 that remade the financial system
in ways not seen until some other week in 2008; if you're hungry
to read 12,000 words about hysterical fancy lads
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Now, we find out Goldman Sachs' (GS) real feelings about Charlie Gasparino during the financial crisis.
While Wall Street was in disarray last year, Goldman called CNBC's Gasparino to thank him for his reporting.
"I praised them as the best of the
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the world in a window
Long extract from Sorkin's crisis book, "Too Big To Fail", on how Morgan Stanley and Goldman almost went down
Give us 15 minutes of your time, and we will give you everything that matters in the world. Editor, Robert Cottrell;
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Sunrise over the stock exchange, in Lower Manhattan, the traditional home of the city’s famed financial firms, many of which have moved uptown or disappeared entirely. By Scott Peterman/Higher Pictures.
Excerpted from Too Big to Fail, by Andrew Ross
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Andrew Ross Sorkin and the DealBook staff invite readers to DealBook Dialogue, our first online round table. The topic is “Too Soon to Rethink? Assessing the Financial Crisis,” and the discussion will be moderated by the Deal Professor, Steven M.
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The papers Tuesday seem to disagree about exactly where we are. The New York Times, led off by Andrew Ross Sorkin's front-page column declaring M&A and optimism back, and buttressed by the business section's pumping for Dow 10,000, jostles uneasily
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The headline of Andrew Ross Sorkin's DealBook column in The New York Times Tuesday (A Financier Peels Back the Curtain) was admittedly intriguing.
But for all its promised peeling, the article about Terra Firma's Guy Hands doesn't reveal anything new.
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New York Times pundit Andrew Ross Sorkin declares that Lehman won’t die because its CEO, Richard (better known as Dick) Fuld, is too important. “He is a member of an exclusive club: the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York,”
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hmmm, still waiting for him to give that finger.
According to Andrew Ross Sorkin, Lewis "wants to give the middle finger to Wall Street."
Lewis "wants to give the middle finger to Wall Street."
Instead, he got donkey punched by the US government. Same
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jack welsh...a bald orge. There is a place in hell reserved for him. His firing policies have probab;ly ruined countless lives. good articles... .http://is.gd/HGYt
^ because you can run a company without firing anybody. shut up.
TH: you're responding
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