Patrick McGeehan of The New York Times on the huge pay cut for Wall Street bankers last year: Now, an analysis of their pay has found that it declined more in 2009 than in any other year in the last eight decades — more even than in the years of the Great Depression. When those […]

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Zachary A. Goldfarb of The Washington Post: At the same time, regulators offered a prescription aimed at curbing excessive market volatility. The Securities and Exchange Commission announced that in coming weeks it would require that exchanges pause trading in a stock if it declines more than 10 percent in any five-minute interval. Will the government […]

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