Video: When Wall Street Lies to Us (Interview with Steve Forbes)
Forbes.com - April 27, 2009

Janet Tavakoli, an expert in complex derivative securities and the author of Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street recently sat down with Steve Forbes [President and CEO of Forbes and Editor in Chief of Forbes Magazine] to discuss the lingering financial crisis and the future of Wall Street's banks. Tavakoli, who saw trouble brewing way back in 2005, believes that we still need an accounting of the crisis and maybe some perp walks for bank executives.

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How to Rescue Capitalism
Forbes.com - April 27, 2009
by Michael Maiello

But that's not enough for Tavakoli, who'd like to see stricter regulation on the securitization and issuance of credit and credit products. Without that, she says, "Capitalism as we knew it will eventually perish. It will be permanently replaced by a financial sector oligarchy that holds sway over a once democratic government that failed to protect our money."

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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008), and
Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (John Wiley & Sons January 2009)


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