Claudia Deutsch
I graduated from Cornell with a degree in child psychology, enough years ago so that all you needed to break into journalism was willingness to starve. I went into business journalism because, in the 60s, the business press was the crusading press, the ones that wrote about environment, race relations, etc.
Since then I have worked for Business Week, Chemical Week and, from 1984 through May 2008, BizDay at the New York Times. I remain bored by and ignorant of esoteric financial instruments; I remain fascinated and pretty knowledgeable about management, marketing, environment, all the non-financial aspects of business. But my true passions? Tennis, both playing and watching, and food, both cooking and eating.
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Since then I have worked for Business Week, Chemical Week and, from 1984 through May 2008, BizDay at the New York Times. I remain bored by and ignorant of esoteric financial instruments; I remain fascinated and pretty knowledgeable about management, marketing, environment, all the non-financial aspects of business. But my true passions? Tennis, both playing and watching, and food, both cooking and eating.
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Will Blankfein Be the Sacrificial Goat?There's a lot of talk going around that Goldman Sachs is begging the SEC to settle its fraud suit, and that it is agreeing to pay as much as $1 billion in fines just to make the whole thing go away. -
Again, Politics Trump Conviction -- Yippee!So the Republicans have caved. They are letting the financial reform bill proceed to debate on the Senate floor. -
The Goldman Hearing: More Proof the System Needs ChangingDepending on your mood, you can giggle, gasp or upchuck as you listen to the grilling of current and former Goldman execs on what did they know and when did they know it. -
With All the Mega-Fraud Hoopla, Don't Forget the Mini-FraudsI just want to register some mini-outrage at a squib I just read in the May/June issue of AARP Magazine (I tried to find it online to link, but couldn't, sorry). The headline: Lifetime Warranties - Not! -
Bad Credit? Go Make Money. Oh, Sorry - You Can'tTalk about a vicious Catch 22. You lose your job, your debts mount. You fall behind in payments, so your credit rating goes down. -
Let the Sins of the Prince Be Visited on the PanditBy now you'd think I'd be inured to rehashes of the maximum pay for maximum failure mentality that ruled Wall Street for lord knows how many years, until everything came crashing down and...well, you know what happened. -
The True Hypocrisy of the Tea Party MovementSure, I understand the whole concept of "I'm mad as hell and I won't take it anymore." I'm a kid of the 60's, remember? Been there, done that, can't say won't do it again. -
The Myth of Retention Bonuses, Exposed at LastSo Kenneth Feinberg, our pay czar, did the unthinkable - he actually cut pay at the handful of companies over which he still has jurisdiction. And guess what - no one is rushing for the door.