I was chatting with a friend about our earlier post taking apart the New Housing Sales data (Sales drop 23.5%), and he asked —...
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Nice interactive data set, from FT: Source:US ahead as global R&D spending up 10%John Willman in LondonFT, November 11 2007 18:21 |...
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(Alt title: Move over FASB 157 — FIN46-R is in town). While investors of banks and brokers breathe a sigh of relief over the...
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Abu Dhabi to the Rescue! Late last night, the WSJ reported Citigroup will receive a $7.5B cash infusion from the governmental investment...
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Apropos of our last post, a dozen of you (1st in: Scott Frew of Rockingham Partners) directed our attention to David Einhorn’s...
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On Friday, we noted that Fannie Mae Looks Like Hell. In the weekend linkfest, we noted the Fortune article about Fannie Mae, as well as...
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This slipped by quietly last week: Standard & Poor’s U.S. corporate earnings projections for Q3 has slipped from prior levels,...
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We have previously mentioned our fondness for the acid tongue of Jeff Matthews (see 2005’s Why We Love Jeff Matthews). With...
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Today’s chart porn is this lovely, lovely NYT showing of why Goldman Sachs is Da Man!, and everyone else on Wall Street are...
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Fannie Mae’s fuzzy math: Fortune magazine reported that the lender changed the way it discloses bad loans, which could be masking...
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