Podcast: Bailouts, the Fed, and the Crisis
I did a podcast last week, for those of you who cannot get enough of my dulcet nasal tones. Note: I found the download was easier than...
Gross Says Sovereign Debt to Resemble Corporate Returns
Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest mutual fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., talks with Bloomberg about the outlook...
Does Baltic Dry Freight Index Lead Commodity Prices ?
Interesting parallels between the cost of shipping dry goods, and the prices of those goods themselves. The caveat is the past 2 years...
Cashin on Dollar Correlation
Art Cashin, director of floor operations at UBS. Airtime: Tues. Mar. 2 2010 | 8:50 AM ET
Geithner, Summers Lead FOMC Vacancy Search
Oh, goody, the status quo duo are leading the search for not one but three FOMC governors. These two are notable not only for their...
What Were the Actual Losses in Madoff’s Fraud?
Here is a deceptively complex and subtle legal question involving Ponzi schemes and fraud: What are “losses” in the legal...
A Banker’s Progress
Doonesbury had a funny strip Sunday titled “A Banker’s Progress“. > > Ernst adds: “You’ve probably heard...
Monday Reads
Quite a few interesting stories today in them papers. Here is what caught my eye: • Will Toyota’s problems hurt Honda?...
Corzine Says Goldman Unpopular Because `It Brings Envy’
Former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine talks with Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton and Erik Schatzker about the U.S. budget deficit,...