Big Bang Briefly
Introducing the Briefly series. Taking theory and presenting it in it’s most concise form. We start with the Big Bang because the...
A Brief History of Lehman Bros
Great ‘toon, just in time for the one year anniversary of Lehman’s collapse, via India’s Economic Times: > click for...
Afternoon Reading
A few articles worth reading: • Mortgage problems are walloping Americans’ credit scores (LA Times) • U.S. Economy May See Its...
Free Market Day (but just a day)
James Pethokoukis is ready to celebrate Free Market Day: “At a House Financial Services Committee hearing just after Lehman...
Capital markets/bank lending
To the question of whether banks are lending to businesses and the flip side of what’s the demand for loans, from Friday’s...
Dow: 9/11/01 = 9/11/09
This has been circulating Wall Street trading desks via UBS’ Art Cashin: On both 9/11/01 and 9/11/09, the Dow industrials were at...
Happy Anniversary !
While everyone is so focused on the anniversary of Lehman Brothers (9/15) and AIG (9/16), today is a different sort of anniversary: Its...