Marian Wang
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt.
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt. She joined ProPublica in 2010, first blogging about a variety of accountability issues. Her later stories focused on how rising college costs and the complexity of the student loan system affect students and their families. Prior to coming to ProPublica, she worked at Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco and freelanced for a number of Chicago-based publications, including The Chicago Reporter, an investigative magazine focused on issues of race and poverty.
Are Goldman's 'Big Short' Denials Short on Persuasiveness?
Goldman Sachs dd nothing illegal in shorting the market, but it has a lot of persuading to do if it expects people to believe it wasn't happy to see the housing market tank.
by Marian Wang,
After the SEC's Goldman Suit, Other Banks Being Scrutinized
Reports about Deutsche Bank's CDO deals with Paulson & Co. raise disclosure issues like those for which the SEC sued Goldman Sachs. But Deutsche Bank says its situation was different.
by Marian Wang,
Senate Dems to Deny Buffett's Derivatives Exception
Though Warren Buffett has long argued about the danger of derivatives, he has pushed to exempt existing deals from proposed new regulations on such contracts. But his efforts to win such an exemption are reported to have failed.
by Marian Wang,
Buffett, a Longtime Derivatives Critic, Lobbies for an Exemption
In 2003, Warren Buffett called derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction." But as Congress considers financial reform, he is now trying to have his company's derivatives portfolio grandfathered in.
by Marian Wang,
Is the SEC Porn Story a New Problem, or Political Ploy?
Reports that SEC employees viewed porn at work, while the economy was collapsing, aren't new, but the "new" reports seem curiously timed to efforts to criticize SEC oversight.
by Marian Wang,
Ex-Regulator Says Lincoln's Derivatives Bill Not Perfect, but Is 'Superior' to Others
A former commodities regulator says a bill now moving through the Senate to limit some derivative products isn't perfect, but would allow regulators to stop selling products that were little more than financial gambling, and would require others to be traded on a more transparent exchange.
by Marian Wang,
The Homeowners Whose Loss Was Paulson's $1 Billion in Gain
The Wall Street Journal found the borrowers whose home mortgages were the underlying collateral in Goldman Sachs' Abacus deal, the CDO that is now the subject of the SEC's civil-fraud charges against Goldman.
by Marian Wang,