Week Ahead
U.S. Week Ahead: Jobs and Car Sales Ahead A short week will be marked by a rush of economic data. The headline number will be June...
Top 1000 World Banks for 2009 by Tier 1 Capital
The Banker magazine released the Top 1000 world banks for 2009 based on their Tier 1 capital. “For the first time in the Top...
Video: Top 1000 world banks 2009
Brian Caplen, editor of The Banker and Geraldine Lambe discuss the results of this year’s Top 1000
The Great American Bubble Machine (Redux)
I mentioned The Great American Bubble Machine, Matt Taibbi’s brilliant savaging of Goldman Sachs last week. Saw it, read it, posted...
Fix What’s Broken
> I did an extensive interview with Kate Welling this week: Barry Ritholtz, author of the recently published, “Bailout Nation, How...
Words from the (investment) Wise June 28, 2009
Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (June 22 – 28, 2009) “Words from the Wise” this week comes to you in...
2009 Automobile Quality Ratings
> Source: Toyota Tops Quality Study CHERYL JENSEN NYT, June 26, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/automobiles/28QUALITY.html
7 Habits of Highly Suspicious Hedge Funds
I met Richard Bookstaber at an event recently — very nice guy — and we briefly discussed A Demon of Our Own Design (excerpted...
Credit Card Debt Graphic
Jess Bachman, who did the terrific centerfold graphic for Bailout Nation, has another killer graphic: The Descent into Credit Card Debt...
Book TV: Bailout Nation (Sunday June 28)
* Sunday, June 28th at 3pm (ET) * Monday, June 29th at 2am (ET) Set your TIVOs for Book TV I actually thought the presentation went...