Neel Kashkari on the Market Crisis & Asset Relief
Neel Kashkari – Neel Kashkari is Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, Jr. He provides counsel to the...
Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees
I spit up my coffee when I read this earlier today: Your Headline of the Day: Dominatrix Work Forces Recession to Its Knees When the...
Are CDS Acts of Satan?? Everything You Wanted to Know about...
Peter Wallison at AEI has kindly invited me to debate Mark Brickell, the former head of ISDA, on the topic of credit default swaps, at...
TARP Recipients and their Bonuses
These are really three different issues: 1) The CEO compensation; 2) Commission/P&L bonuses of profitable employees; 3) Misaligned...
Volcker Urges More Transparency in Hedge Funds/Private Equity
Live! From Capitol Hill: Former Fed Chairman Paul Volcker Testifies in Front of Senate Banking Committee Bloomberg, February 05, 2009
Buffett’s Buy Metric
> I look at the above chart, and it does not suggest the market is particularly cheap — its cheaper than ti was, but the 1940s...
Paella, Pips & IOs
Paul Brodsky & Lee Quaintance run QB Partners, a private macro-oriented investment fund based in New York. ~~~ This month, as...
NYSE Floor Rumor: SEC to Overturn Mark-to-Market
> No proof if this is true or not, but its whats goosing the markets . . .
Executive Pay & Perks
Nice pair of tables from the NYT: > Sources: In Curbing Pay, Obama Seeks to Alter Corporate Culture STEPHEN LABATON and VIKAS BAJAJ...
Bank of America: Highway to Hell
Geez, the banks have been trading so heavy — they look like they are all zeros. My head trader says the bank is on the Highway to...