Who Holds Corporations Responsible for Bad Behavior?
As per our prior post (Let the litigation begin!): Have you ever wonder why investors and counter-parties never take heed from really...
FREDDIE MAC: Spending as if they had a good year
One of the more interesting things about the inter-tubes is that a great many things manage to find their way to the public than in the...
CFO Optimism Spirals Downward
Duke University/CFO Magazine year-end 2007 survey is out, and the results are not encouraging. According to John Graham, director of the...
Goldman Sachs: Sell Tech Selectively
Yeoman’s work by Barron’s Eric Savitz, who pens the must read techblog Tech Trader Daily, in assembling a laundry list of...
New Home Sales Cut in Half
I was chatting with a friend about our earlier post taking apart the New Housing Sales data (Sales drop 23.5%), and he asked —...
US Leading Global R&D Spending
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 |...
More Off-Balance Sheet Risks: Conduits
(Alt title: Move over FASB 157 — FIN46-R is in town). While investors of banks and brokers breathe a sigh of relief over the...
Citibank Receives Emergency Cash Injection
Abu Dhabi to the Rescue! Late last night, the WSJ reported Citigroup will receive a $7.5B cash infusion from the governmental investment...
David Einhorn on Credit Agencies
Apropos of our last post, a dozen of you (1st in: Scott Frew of Rockingham Partners) directed our attention to David Einhorn’s...
Fannie Mae: Ouch!
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...