NYU Stern School of Business
I am off to Tunku Varadarajan’s MBA class with John Carney of Silicon Alley Insider to discuss blogging and the media. The class is...
Bernanke Bombshell: AIG Insurer Exposed to FP
In researching and think about AIG, I have been writing about them as if it were two separate companies: A well regulated Insurer, and a...
Dark musings, 2009-03-24
Steve Randy Waldman writes the blog interfluidity. His take is usually away from the mainstream, and always interesting. His most recent...
Merrill/Bank America Departures
Two heavy hitters have departed Merrill Lynch (or, as it is now called, Bank of America ): David Rosenberg, the chief North American...
Paul Krugman & Donald Marron discuss Geithner’s plan
News Hour – Paul Krugman & Donald Marron discuss Geithner’s plan, Part I Part II via Firedoglake
Buying Risky Assets
via NYT > Source: U.S. Expands Plan to Buy Banks’ Troubled Assets EDMUND L. ANDREWS and ERIC DASH NYT, March 23, 2009...
The Annual Existing Home Sales MSM Errata
Redux: No, Existing Home Sales were not good Its March, and that means its time for our favorite annual mainstream media math mess up:...
7% Market Gains
> Huge day today! Major indices saw 7% plus moves upward. And as Bloomberg noted, this capped off the biggest 10 day rally since...
A Deflationary Depression
Dr. Martin Weiss, chairman of Weiss Research, talks to Kelsey Hubbard about what’s being done to fix the economy and assesses...
First 5% Plus Month in 5 Years
My friend Josh points out: We have not had a 5%+ up month on the S&P since December 2003 — a streak of abut 62 months. With a...