Waiting for Geithner
Vincent Farrell, Jr. is Chief Investment Officer of Soleil Securities, a New York based investment management company. Over his long...
The Recent History of Gold, 1954-2009
Attention Gold Bugs: Warm up your credit cards! Back in 2007, we ran this terrific chart by JP Koning of the History of the Dow. JP is at...
Roubini: How Long Will the Recession Last?
Interview with Nouriel Roubini, Economics Professor at NYU Stern School of Business Length 13:31 Bloomberg, February 10, 2009
Fannie & Freddie: Mo’ Money
No surprise here: As Home prices have fallen, more mortgages have defaulted. The increasing default levels are further pressuring the...
Obama Says Crisis Calls for More Jobs
President Barack Obama addresses the economic crisis in his first prime-time press conference as Commander-in-Chief, saying “The...
Fix Housing, Fix the Banks and the Securitization Markets Both
In our latest issue of The Institutional Risk Analyst, we tell the story of Westamerica Bancorp (NASDAQ:WABC) and how it acquired an...
And Death is Not an Option…
Good Evening: The only truly meaningful news today came in the form of a delay in Treasury Secretary Geithner’s much anticipated...
Media Appearance: CNBC’s Fast Money (2/9/09)
> Tonite I will be on Fast Money with Dylan Ratigan on CNBC at 5:30pm discussing tomorrow’s Bank bailout plan and the good and...
Stiglitz: Gov’t Should Bail Out Homeowners, Not Banks
Joseph E. Stiglitz – Joseph Stiglitz was chief economist at the World Bank until January 2000. Before that he was the chairman of...
Household Employment from Peak
One final visual look at the Employment situation that’s worth looking at: The chart below shows the recession decrease in...