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A woman walks past a currency exchange store with an Argentine national flag on display in Buenos Aires' financial district on August 14, 2014

How a New York court got to dictate terms to a entire country

Finance

Argentina has South America’s third-largest economy, but many of its financial decisions are now subject to the review of a New York court. That’s because Argentina turned to American firms to borrow money, and the US legal system now gets to decide how its debts will be handled.

The World

Prosecutors wiretap Wall Street

Conflict & Justice

Wall Street & The Role of Women

Hedge fund uses Twitter to profitably predict market swings

Business, Economics and Jobs

Hedge funds buying massive tracts of African farmland

Lawmakers and bank donations

Global Politics

Lawmakers are getting millions of dollars from the financial firms they’re in charge of regulating.

When money is the muse

Arts, Culture & Media

Fed up living as a starving writer, Katy Lederer took a job at a hedge fund, but she kept writing poetry on the side, often about money and our complicated lust for it.

Gupta Faces Insider Trading Charges

Former Goldman Sachs director Rajat Gupta surrendered to FBI officials on Wednesday morning. Gupta faces criminal charges in a massive hedge fund insider trading case. He has been under investigation over whether he leaked corporate secrets to Raj Rajaratnam, the co-founder of the hedge fund the Galleon Group. Rajaratnam was sentenced to 11 years in […]

The World

Twitter Drives Hot Stock Strategy

Environment

A hedge fund is making lots of money using a new program that mines Twitter to determine emotions among the population to help decide buying and selling strategies.

Global Hedge Funds Buying Land in Africa

Global Politics

Hedge funds gobble up land in Africa and universities like Harvard are not far behind.