Image by Getty Images via DaylifeLehman Brothers Hid Borrowing, Examiner Says - NYTimes.com: "According to the report, Lehman used what amounted to financial engineering to temporarily shuffle $50 billion of troubled assets off its books in the months before its collapse in September 2008 to co ... Read more

There is a fairly large disagreement on the degree of differences in investments and other financial decisions based on risk. Many of the earlier studies showing females are more risk averse and less competitive are being brought into question when newer studies control for income, or life expectanc ... Read more

Ok, so Entrepreneurship is not strictly speaking finance. It is close enough to include this since the song is so good (yeah I think that is a blogging rule somewhere).HT to Phil of Adventure Capitalist ... Read the full post ... Read more

From the Cato Institute: Real World Evidence for the Laffer Curve from the Government of Washington, DC | Cato @ Liberty: "...the Laffer Curve simply reveals that higher tax rates will lead to less taxable income (or that lower tax rates will lead to more taxable income) and that it is an empirical ... Read more

AIG to sell Alico unit to MetLife for $15.5 billion - Mar. 8, 2010: "AIG agreed Monday to sell its American Life Insurance Co. unit to MetLife Inc. for $15.5 billion in cash and stock, in beleaguered AIG's second sale of an international unit in a week.AIG said it will sell the unit, known as Alico, ... Read more

Definitely worth watching. (how is it that TV has so many bad shows when stuff like this is on?) ... Read the full post ... Read more

SEC Sues Psychic For Securities Fraud - Planet Money Blog : NPR: "Here are some of the key accusations in the SEC's lawsuit: Morton claimed that he would use his psychic expertise to provide investment guidance to his investing team, and falsely touted his historical success in psychically predictin ... Read more