via NYT > Source: Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans’ Emptied MARK LANDLER NYT, December 26, 2008...
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I don’t get this entire “Reckoning” piece in today’s NYT. Somehow, its China’s fault? I need to reread this...
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Are the various central bank liquidity facilities and capital injections having the desired effect of unclogging credit markets and...
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This is not only my nomination for video of the year (from Seeing Sounds), it gets the nod for sentiment indicator of the year! >...
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Some toothless watchdog: This year, the S.E.C. has brought the fewest number of securities fraud prosecutions since 1991. That’s...
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An excerpt from a training video produced in 2005 by World Savings Bank. The video demonstrates how brokers were encouraged to sell...
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via NYT > Source: Once Trusted Mortgage Pioneers, Now Pariahs MICHAEL MOSS and GERALDINE FABRIKANT NYT, December 24, 2008...
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The indispensable Carol Loomis takes on AIG in Fortune. Having an overview of the government’s bailout (and re-bailout) of AIG is...
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Missus Big Picture and I are watching CNBC early on the 23rd. Some woman from a large mall is discussing how the naysayers are wrong, and...
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Speaking of interesting watches: This Chopard is named after the Mille Miglia automobile race in Italy — note how the watchband,...
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