Written by Aaron Pressman

 

 

As Boston correspondent for BusinessWeek

"Madoff Whistleblower Markopolos Blasts SEC," June 5, 2009 online story (original)

"Bets on the Bankrupt," June 22, 2009 cover date (original)

"For the New Bulls, It's Lonely at the Bottom," March 9, 2009 cover date (original)

"The Investment 'Albatross' At UBS," August 11, 2008 cover date (original)

"Auction Rate Securities Mess is Worse Than You Thought," May 22, 2008 blog entry (original)

"Contrarians to Watch," April 7, 2008 cover date (original)

"Where Buffett Wannabes Trade Tips," Nov. 26, 2007 cover issue date (original)

"A Season for Cassandras," Aug. 23, 2007 online story (original)

"Music CD, I'm just not that in to you," March 21, 2007 blog entry (original)

"The Trade-Offs for Free E-Trades," March 19, 2007 cover issue date (original)

"Coffee Wars IV - Schultz rallies Starbucks' baristas," February 23, 2007 blog entry (original)

"Clearwire IPO gearing up but watch out for turbulence," Feb. 15, 2007 blog entry (original)

"Stock Tips for Generation YouTube," Jan. 29, 2007 cover issue date (original) - and don't miss the hilarious parody on Wallstrip. Wallstrip was subsequently bought by CBS in May, 2007.

"Homeland Security 2.0," Jan. 22, 2007 cover issue date (original)

"Want Some Pajamas With That Kayak?," Nov. 20, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"Fished Out," a special report on the future of commercial fishing, Sept. 4, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"Investing lessons from the Boston (Red Sox) Massacre of 2006," Aug. 22, 2006 blog entry (original)

"Whose customers is McDonald's luring with coffee?," July 18, 2006 blog entry (original).

"Top 10 signs of an inflating ethanol bubble," May 9, 2006 blog entry (original)

"Drunk On Ethanol," May 9, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"A High Risk Diet For Investors," May 1, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"Funds To Cover Every Angle," March 27, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"How the IPO Market Got Its Buzz Back," Feb. 27, 2006 cover issue date (original)

"ETFs: A Better Way To Go Abroad," Dec. 26, 2005 cover issue date (original)

"Wheels Of Fortune: Superbikes," Sept. 26, 2005 cover issue date (original)

"Fee-based Accounts: A Poor Fit For Investors?" May 9, 2005 cover issue date (original). Eliot Spitzer got on the case in December, 2006.

"Now That's A Liquid Investment," April 18, 2005 cover issue date (original)

 

As senior market columnist for TheStreet.com

"The dangers of quick thinking - review of Blink," Jan. 22, 2005 (original)

"Holiday looks moderately jolly," Dec. 20, 2004 (original)

"Blockbusters and classics fill DVD holiday bag," Nov. 11, 2004 (original)

"Ghosts of 1994: Gone but not exorcised," Nov. 11, 2004 (original)

"The Yuan remains the same," Oct. 13, 2004 (original)

"Goldilocks doesn't live here anymore," Sept. 29, 2004 (original)

"Inspecting housing's foundation for flaws," Sept. 16, 2004 (original)

"Higher rates aren't so bad for banks afterall," Sept. 7, 2004 (original)

"Googling Future With Ghosts of IPOs Past," July 27, 2004 (original)

 

As a reporter for Bloomberg News

"Fidelity's Abigail Johnson Says Fund Firms Did `Stupid' Things," June 2, 2004

"FBR's Ellison Uses Lessons From Peter Lynch to Get Top Return," April 22, 2004

"American Funds Splits Managers After Record Sales," March 4, 2004

"Invesco Allowed `Market Timing' as Managers Protested," Dec. 3, 2003

"America's Stock-Fund Owners Pay Twice the Fees of Institutions," Nov. 17, 2003

"Prudential Brokers Used Aliases, Insiders' Tips, Complaint Says," Nov. 5, 2003

"First Eagle's de Vaulx Plans for Loss of Eveillard," Oct. 23, 2003

"Arizona Firm Cited by Spitzer Had Run-Ins With Bank Regulators," Sept. 22, 2003

(Regulators ordered the firm dissolved and charged 3 executives in November 2003)

"Fidelity Splits Off Geode Capital as Separate Manager," Aug. 4, 2003

"Putnam Customers Flee After Bad Tech Bets Pummel Returns," June 23, 2003

(Putnam ousted CEO Lasser five months later)

"Franklin's Succession Plans May Overshadow Earnings," April 23, 2003

(Franklin named co-CEO's two quarters later)

"Gordon Crawford's Bet Soured, So AOL's Case Had to Go," Jan. 16, 2003

"Gold Funds Seek Record 3rd Year as Top Performers," Jan. 2, 2003

"Fidelity's Grant leads effort to compete with Gross," Dec. 16, 2002

 

As a freelancer for Boston Magazine

"Mutual Suspicion," October, 2002 (original)

 

As a freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor:

"Consumers in crossfire of labels' war on piracy," March 4, 2002

"What to do in 2002," Dec. 31, 2001

 

As a freelancer for CNET/Fortune magazine special issue:

"Playing a new tune," Winter, 2001 (original)

 

As a senior writer for the Industry Standard magazine:

"Jackson's Folly Isn't So Bad," June 29, 2001 (original)

"Gridlock: California Could Be Just the Beginning," June 25, 2001

"Singing the K Street Blues," May 28, 2001 (original)

"Tech's White House Connection," April 2, 2001 (original)

"Legal Storm Brewing Over Microsoft's Hailstorm," March 19, 2001 (original)

"Damn It, I'm the FCC Chairman, Not a Magician," Feb. 6, 2001 (original)

"Voters for Sale," Nov. 13, 2000 (original)

"Can You Spell 'Succinct'?" Aug. 3, 2000 (original)

"Professor Farber Gets an Education," June 26, 2000 (original)

"Digital Squatters Won't Budge From Spectrum," June 5, 2000 (original)

 

As a correspondent for the Reuters wire service:

"New York tests market for competition," Feb. 8, 2000

"White House, industry seek to close digital divide," Dec. 8, 1999

"US may relax limits on encryption source code," Oct. 19, 1999

"Cable set-top box scramble just beginning," May 13, 1999

"US FCC again says not regulatingor taxing Internet," Feb. 26, 1999

"U.S. likely to approve AT&T, TCI deal soon," Feb. 2, 1999

"Microradio to allow thousands of new small stations," Jan. 27, 1999

"Cable Internet access facing regulatory battle," Oct. 12, 1998

"Piqued Republicans delay digital copyright bill," Oct. 11, 1998

"U.S. effort on encryption 'backdoors' ends in failure," June 26, 1998

"Not much subtley at Capitol Hill forex hearing," June 6, 1996

 

As a freelancer for Wired magazine:

"Tinyapps.org," Feb., 2002 (original)

"Addicted to Toys," April, 1999 (original)

"Offshore Banking: A Day at the Beach," Nov., 1998 (original)

"The FCC's Reverse Entrepreneur," May, 1998 (original)

"Digital Shelf Space," Dec., 1995 (original)

"Feeding Wall Street," Feb., 1995 (original)

"Going for the Gold," May, 1994 (original)

 

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