Media Bistro reminds us that last year, Eric Bolling made a big $50,000 bet (loser donates to the charity of winner’s choice) with...
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Another week in the books, and some more red ink spilled. This week, Gold was the big winner (+3%), while Crude Oil gave up the most...
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Original title: Tyler Cowen, Apologist for Fraud? > Over the years, I’ve noted the problems I’ve had with Economists...
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Interesting webtool for visualization of option strike prices: via Option Pain
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Here’s another example of a court refusing to roll over for an attempted Foreclosure by a bank, that may — or may not —...
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This week, the Federal Reserve reported that revolving consumer credit had risen 7.4% from the same period last year. Outstanding...
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Here’s an interesting name for Friday Night Jazz: Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly. The WSJ called The Nightfly "one of pop...
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Nothing like a combination of reckless lending standards, aggressive stupidity and irresponsible behavior being rewarded. For pushing no...
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Shorter Floyd Norris: We bankers are idiots, we can’t do basic math, have little in the way of risk management. Lobbying for FASB...
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