Don’t Bluff Buffett, Plus Other Lehman Lessons: Susan Antilla It’s tough not to conclude that, whoever is at fault, Lehman Brothers got away with scamming investors about its financial state until the New York-based investment bank hobbled into bankruptcy court on Sept. 15, 2008.

CEOs Say Sorry and Thanks for All the Dough: Susan Antilla Everywhere you look, there’s a CEO apologizing for something.

Protecting the Public Ends Up Helping Markets: Susan Antilla If you still believe that protecting consumers from lying creeps who peddle financial schlock is bad for business, you’ve been spending too much time playing video games since you lost your job in the Great American Meltdown.

Stocks, Bonds, Retailing, Semiconductors: Taking Stock Dorsey Farr of French Wolf & Farr talks with Bloomberg's David Wilson about the stock and bond markets. Craig Johnson of Customer Growth Partners LLC discusses retailers Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and J.C. Penney Co. Crawford Del Prete of IDC talks about Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc., and Daniel Berenbaum of Auriga USA LLC discusses Intel Corp. and Micron Technology Inc. Bloomberg's Susan Antilla also speaks.

Libido Control Is How to Get Ahead at the Office: Susan Antilla Add another item to the list of career details that business schools neglect to teach their students: how to keep your hormones from threatening your livelihood.

Quants’ Risk-Free Ideas Sink Market, Cause Ruin: Susan Antilla To become a potentially market- destroying “it” group on Wall Street, you need some arrogance, enough brains to justify making huge financial bets, utter cluelessness about lessons learned from finance’s booms and busts, and a sincere belief that your unique contributions to Wall Street will mean, ahem, that this time it really is different, so old truths can be ignored.

Protecting Consumers Will Undermine Capitalism: Susan Antilla Flouting the efforts of lobbyists to shut down his plan for a consumer protection agency, the newly combative President Barack Obama is digging in his heels. Spokesman Robert Gibbs said last week that it’s something Obama “is not willing to give up.”

Regulator’s Client Pitch Hit Little Guy in Head: Susan Antilla In an era when taxpayers are subsidizing Wall Street bonuses and a populist president is embracing financiers, I guess I won’t shock you with news that a top securities regulator tried to sell a service to help businesses keep employee and customer disputes out of court.

Hot Seat for SEC Chief Schapiro Won’t Cool Off: Susan Antilla The chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission has a past that is fast coming back to haunt her.

Brokers’ Lawyer Says Finra Understated Merger Payment (Update1) A lawyer for securities firms suing the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority said sealed documents show its executives understated how much they could pay brokers in the 2007 merger that created the oversight body.