Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard.
A $1.8 billion profit at AIG. A $1.7 billion loss at Royal Bank of Scotland. The White House backs off the Fan and Fred "bad bank" idea. More job…
By now everyone in the known world is aware that Twitter had a two-hour outage this morning. Marketplace tweets, as does the Whiteboard, but when…
If you think banks, auto finance and mortgage companies are usurious, try borrowing on the street in Machester, England. John Kiely, a 36 year-ol…
Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn lets it all hang out in a New York Times story today. "Our risk appetite continues to grow year on year, qu…
Looks like a slack day for the US, markets-wise, although Hong Kong's Hang Seng and the Nikkei both ended up, and European markets are also looking…
America may have thrown off the yoke of British imperialism, but British ways still seem to have a way of insinuating themselves across the Atlan…
Dick Fuld, the former CEO of now-defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers, is back in the news. For a while there, it was his wife Kathy making th…
Paddy Hirsch here, filling in for Scott until the weekend….
Our weekly podcast, After the Bell, is now available. This week, Bob Moon examines the healthcare debate raging on Capitol Hill. He also looks at…
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said today that about 25 financial companies are "systemically important." Too big to fail, in other words. What? 25? Fi…
