There is a special CNBC program on Lehman tonight, 8-10 PM New York Time. > Holy Shit! Latest Update: Merrill Board voting on $29 per...
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Huge WaPo article on Fannie & Freddie that’s (mostly) worth reading: "Blessed with the advantages of a government agency...
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Asian markets are now open, and nary a Lehman bailout in site. (Nikkei Dow is closed) Before you start congratulating the powers that be...
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Goldman Sach’s Jon Hatzius just published an interesting Brookings Paper on the inter-relationship between falling home prices, the...
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This week, one of my fellow LIRR commuters handed me a New York Magazine, and asked me my opinion about an article by Jim Cramer...
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Interesting info graphic comparing prior sell offs in today’s Barron’s, via the boys at Bespoke: Source:...
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I have a short piece in Forbes, discussing the bailout culture, and how things devolved into the current mess: The credit crunch. Bear...
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"America is more communist than China is right now. You can see that this is welfare of the rich, it is socialism for the rich…...
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Its Friday night after a long week, and we all have things to do. But I couldn’t sign off without passing along these two tidbits:...
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Where’s The Ref? The U.S. had moved from a state of excess regulation to one of excess de-regulation Forbes, Sep 12, 2008 ...
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