Stimulus Package Explained (Q&A)
Circulating via email: Sometime this year, taxpayers will receive an Economic Stimulus Payment. This is a very exciting new program that...
A Breakdown of Bank Losses
Friday the 13th Black Swan
> What could be a more appropriate thing to do on Friday the 13th than have lunch with Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan author...
Video-o-rama: Risk appetite fades on stimulus gloom
Events this week were dominated by the announcement of US Treasury Secretary Geithner’s Financial Stability Plan and a deal reached in...
Mr Mortgage: HELOC Hard-Ball
Mr Mortgage is a 20-year residential mortgage banking veteran, specializing in wholesale and correspondent sales and sales/operations...
$100 Bills As Toilet Tissue?
Efforts to avoid a deflationary depression will probably produce the opposite — a nasty bout of inflation, says John Williams of...
Fair Value for S&P = 440
Interesting article in the WSJ this AM about earnings collapse. The flip side of earnings is valuation — and that is the main...
Struggling to Save
25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis
There is a strange and strangely interesting list of people to blame for the Financial crisis from Time magazine. It is quirky and odd...