About Those Companies Brought Down by Rumors . . .
Here’s a question I’m curious about: We’ve heard from oh-so-many people how whisper campaigns have brought down so many...
Same As It Ever Was
Welcome to the second half of 2008. We begin the second half pretty much the same way we finished the first half: Equities under...
Reshaping of Wall Street
Mike Santoli on the Reshaping of a newer, smaller Wall Street: click for Video This is based on the article in this week’s cover...
Chuck Prince Discovers the Housing Slump
An amusing Bloomberg article details the difficulties that former Citigroup Inc. CEO Chuck’ Prince III is having selling hios...
Updating Lehman Sell Call
2 weeks ago, we reiterated a previous Sell on Lehman Brothers (LEH). That worked out pretty well. Even with the Dow up 160 points today...
Fuld’s Misquote Contest
At Lehman’s annual meeting held in April of this year, Richard Fuld, CEO of Lehman Brothers, was rumored to have said: "I will...
Sell Rating on Brokers
Note: This was written Sunday, and scheduled to post later this week — but given the Lehman news, its more timely this AM: >We...
Lehman posts Jumbo $3B Loss; To Raise $6B
I’ll have more on the brokers later today, but this is simply an enormous whack: Lehman Brothers to post $3 bln loss; sets $6 bln...
Gasparino vs Einhorn, Kohn & Ritholtz
We have a rugby scrum! ProBanks, ProLehman: Dick Fuld (Lehman CEO), Charlie Gasparino (CNBC), Doug Kass (Seabreeze Partners), Thomas...
Dirty Tricks at Lehman?
Today’s must read commentary: naked capitalism calls shenanigans on Lehman Brothers illegal leak of an insider memo to CNBC’s...