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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> “How could the credit-rating agencies be so wrong consistently? [They were] wrong on Mexico, wrong on Asia, wrong on Enron, wrong...
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I had to do a double take on this one: "A recent survey of top Wall Street economists by The Wall Street Journal revealed...
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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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We get Housing Starts tomorrow morning at 8:30am Sadly Amusing belated autumn leaves:
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In various publications, Ben Stein has been flogging the meme that because the sub-prime mortgages are such a relatively small percentage...
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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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Apropos to our earlier Thain/Fink discussion:
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Here’s something you may not have heard: The surprise selection of NYSE CEO John Thain as Merrill’s new CEO over the more...
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