I know Carl through a mutual friend — he’s out in Washinton State, and had been very successfully running several 100 million...
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I give Barron’s grief whenever I think a columnist or magazine cover is wrong. But even when some thing rubs me the wrong way, the...
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NY Post quotes a trader fearful of SEC reprisal on When Wells Fargo reported third-quarter earnings last week – which beat Wall...
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I think the debate on Capital Gains Taxes is now irrelevant. Why? The huge stock market losses. Here’s a thought: Most people do...
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A very good description of Fannie/Freddie, via Doug Diamond and Anil Kashyap, posting at the Freakonomics blog: "The Fannie and...
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The NYT graphic department has been working overtime: Source:Government’s Leap Into Banking Has Its Perils STEVE LOHRNYT, October...
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Nothing to see here, move along, everything’s fine. That’s what Gene Epstein, Barron’s Economic Beat columnist, and...
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Fun stuff for a Saturday night — these guys are such pros: McCain Roasts Obama Obama Roasts McCain See also:Finding the Humor in...
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> Interesting graphic from Bloomberg, comparing the present Subprime debacle versus the S&L crisis. Excerpt: The $700 billion...
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