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10 Mar

Who Painted Ambac’s Tape?

by Barry Ritholtz
Have a look at this run of transactions in the stock of Ambac (ABK) on Friday: > Source: Bloomberg Data Services >Here’s why...

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8 Mar

FBI Investigating Countrywide

by Barry Ritholtz
Why am I not at all surprised about this? "The Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing subprime lender Countrywide Financial...

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5 Mar

Bankruptcy & Countrywide

by Barry Ritholtz
A quick post before I head over to CNBC:  Two NYT articles caught my eye this morning on the theme of consumer bankruptcy: •...

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6 Feb

Real Estate, Speculation & “Occupancy Fraud”

by Barry Ritholtz
Today’s WSJ had a run of Real Estate related articles that quite frankly, were rather surprising in their gentle naiveté. The...

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6 Feb

Moodys Warning Labels (sub-prime version)

by Barry Ritholtz
From Tuesday’s WSJ: "In an acknowledgment that the system it used to rate billions of dollars of mortgage-related securities...

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22 Aug

Truth-in-Lending Disclosure Failure Leads to Mortgage becoming...

by Barry Ritholtz
Every now and again, a potentially significant story manages to slip through the cracks, barely noticed by anyone. A recent Dow Jones...

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  • About Barry Ritholtz

      Barry L. Ritholtz is the co-founder, chairman, and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management LLC. Launched in...

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