Chrysler: After the Buyout
When Chrysler offered its nonunion salaried employees a buyout in early November, Steve Grames and Jim Badhorn were two of the 5,000...
In-Depth Look: The Housing Crunch
Analysis and Discussion with Nicolas Retsinas of Harvard University (Starting Bell) Bloomberg, February 18, 2009
Housing Starts Slide to Record Low
I’ve been meaning to get to this: Housing starts freefell earlier this week, plummeting 16.8% month-over-month to an annualized...
“Nationalization” of Citi and BofA Inevitable in...
Chris Whalen of Institutional Risk Analytics. via Yahoo Tech Ticker, Feb 18, 2009 “Nationalization” is a poor word to...
Citigroup Buybacks & Dividends: $66 Billion Dollars
David Reilly is on fire: judgment by bankers helped get us into this crisis. They relied too much on borrowed money, lent too freely to...
Bernanke Speaks on Economy
Live! From National Press Club in Washington D.C.: Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke Reveals Fed’s Long-Term Economic Forecast Part I...
The New Housing Plan
President Obama’s housing plan targets seven million to nine million homeowners, making it easier to either refinance / renegotiate...
Is there Any Such Thing as Systemic Risk?
Here are my two shots from TechTicker yesterday: Why Geithner’s Bank Fix Will Fail Analyst: “Nationalization” of Citi...
Experts, Crashes, Media, Skepticism
There is a surprisingly interesting article at Money Magazine on why so many so-called experts utterly missed the market crash, credit...