Meet Uncle Sam, Your Partner in Crime
Meet Uncle Sam, Your Partner in Crime Lack of criminal prosecutions for bankers, hedge funds managers and other moguls has altered the...
10 Things You May Not Have Known About Lehman Brothers
Short list: 1. At the Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference in May 2008, hedge fund manager David Einhorn explained why he believed...
Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank...
Foreclosure settlement a failure of law, a triumph for bank attorneys Barry Ritholtz Washington Post February 25 2012 ~~~ After...
NYTimes Takes on “The Big Lie”
I am please to report that calling out the Big Lie has now gone fully mainstream. Recall last month, I had two Big Lie columns in the...
1 in 6 Home Owners ‘Under Water’; Thwarting the...
Here's another part of the problem: From 1991 to 2001, new home construction averaged between 1.0 and 1.7 million new units -- about 1.35...
Vanishing Act Timeline
How various firms on Wall Street are disappearing: > click for ginormous > Source: Wall Street, R.I.P.: The End of an Era, Even at...
Tally of Federal Rescues
In the Sunday NYT print edition, there is an excellent visual depiction of costs all the Federal bailouts relative to ordinary fiscal...
Cramer Calls (Yet Another) Bottom in Housing
This week, one of my fellow LIRR commuters handed me a New York Magazine, and asked me my opinion about an article by Jim Cramer...
Where’s The Ref?
Where’s The Ref? The U.S. had moved from a state of excess regulation to one of excess de-regulation Forbes, Sep 12, 2008 ...