Celebrating Incompetent Insider Stock Buys
The investor capacity to lie to themselves is truly an awesome thing to witness. The most recent example is the rally in bank stocks...
Nationalize Like Real Capitalists
Steve Randy Waldman writes the blog interfluidity. His take is usually away from the mainstream, and always interesting. His most recent...
FDIC Seized Banks
The Daily Deal brings us this updated, short list of seized banks (with Friday’s 2 additions): Below is the full list of...
Good-Bye and Good Riddance to Chris Cox
“Chairman Cox has increased to 34 percent of the S.E.C. work force from 32 percent in 2005 and 29 percent in the 1990s. This...
Inauguration Rally — “Take Two”
Good Evening: A day after stocks endured their worst pounding ever on the inauguration day of a U.S. president, investors decided to take...
BBC: THE ORACLE (part I)
Lovable financial curmudgeon, goldbug, and activist Max Keiser has a new show on BBC Worldwide: The Oracle, in which he predicts the...
Oath of Office
By Dutch cartoonist, Jos Colligno: > Oath of Office > Here’s a link to other cartoons he did for inauguration day, poking fun...
Agnotology
Fascinating discussion via Wired‘s Clive Thompson, and Stanford historian of science Robert Proctor, on Agnotology: “When it...
Volcker Report
Be sure to check out the Volcker report we published over the weekend . . . Paul Volcker / Group of 30 Report on Reform