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I’ve written before about the risks in individual stocks. A company can look fine, but you never know what’s going on inside it. Nor can you predict outside events that could drag it down.
Latest cases in point: BP, now fighting a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, after one of its leased rigs [...]

Wall Street turned crummy mortgage loans into a pot of gold. How did that happen? Fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, gave the public its first peek at the game. So did Michael Lewis’s must-read new book, “The Big Short,” about a handful of the clever people who bet [...]

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“The Big Short." You'll find no better book for explaining how toxic mortgage investments brought down the economy. Lewis is a great storyteller. You watch the disaster unwind through the eyes of four unforgettable investors who saw that these loans had to fail and invested accordingly.
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