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Paddy Hirsch is a former Contributing Editor at Marketplace and the creator and former host of the Marketplace Whiteboard.
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Predatory lender
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 6, 2009
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...
Frankly, my dear...
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 6, 2009
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...
Top o' the mornin'
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 6, 2009
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...
Trendsetters
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 5, 2009
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...
Fuld of it
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 5, 2009
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...
Top of the Morning
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Paddy Hirsch
Aug 5, 2009
Paddy Hirsch here, filling in for Scott until the weekend....
Strong medicine
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Paddy Hirsch
Jul 24, 2009
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...
The cat that got the cream
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Paddy Hirsch
Jul 24, 2009
Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said today that about 25 financial companies are "systemically important." Too big to fail, in other words.
What? 25?
Fi...
Made in China
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Paddy Hirsch
Jul 24, 2009
The Alliance for American Manufacturing sent us this chart today, noting that aside from oil imports, the U.S. trade deficit is dominated by...
Come on ye Reds!
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Paddy Hirsch
Jul 24, 2009
Fans of Liverpool Football Club are gripping the edges of their seats today, but not because it's two-all in the last seconds of overtime. The cl...