Derivatives

Audit Notes: bad banks edition

Too big to behave or to fail

By Ryan Chittum Jun 13, 2012 at 06:50 AM

Gretchen Morgenson writes about how the interest-rate swaps Wall Street encouraged government agencies to take out are costing governments billions... More

MIT Bloggers and Sorkin Take Down a Derivatives Study

By Ryan Chittum Feb 15, 2011 at 12:45 PM

Andrew Ross Sorkin has a good column this morning exposing yet another misleading campaign affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce.... More

Reuters Brings a Deustche Derivatives Whistleblower to the Surface

By Ryan Chittum Jun 24, 2011 at 12:40 PM

Reuters's Matthew Goldstein has an eye-raising scoop today, reporting that Deutsche Bank fired a top credit default swaps trader in... More

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