I came across an interesting piece in BusinessWeek from December 2007 on one of my favorite subjects: Corporate Bailouts Through History....
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From our Things that make you go Hmmmm department: There is a meme going around about the death of Bear Stearns (BSC). According to some...
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What a crazy week — and the market is the least of it! We moved from our old space on Park Avenue & 49th (across from the...
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I love a capella, and enjoy a good economic parody. So how could I not love the Richter Scales ode to the 2007 credit crunch, sub-prime...
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Regular readers know that I am not a fan of the WSJ Op Ed page. In addition to their playing fast and loose with facts, I find their...
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That’s the intriguing question asked in a recent WSJ article, New Rules For Picking A Bottom? Don’t leap to the wrong...
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I previously mentioned A Demon of Our Own Design in a linkfest a few weeks ago. I enjoyed the book a great deal, and just about finished...
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Here’s an email I received late yesterday from a friend, "R," who was in the CDO business from way back when to right...
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These are floating around anyway, so we might as well offer them all up in one place: (Thanks, Rob!) Below you will find the various...
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Floyd Norris posted a fabulous take down of the report from Goldman Sachs entitled “The Quant Liquidity Crunch." The...
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