Greece officially asks for help
Not surprisingly, Greece has officially asked for EU/IMF help. The melt down in their bond market this week made it an inevitability. The...
10 Things You Don’t Know (or were misinformed) About the...
I have been watching with a mixture of awe and dismay some of the really bad analysis, sloppy reporting, and just unsupported commentary...
Strategic Defaulters
PBS: ‘Strategic Defaulters’ Skip Mortgage Payments as Home Values Tumble AIR DATE: April 20, 2010 As part of his continuing...
David Letterman – Goldman Sachs Top Ten
Top Ten Goldman Sachs Excuses from April 20, 2010. Hat tip Paul
Thursday Readings
Quite an interesting reading list today: • Take apart Goldmans SEC defense line by line, and it does not look pretty for GS: Fisking...
Busted Homes Behind CDO Bet
Another good infographic, via the WSJ: > > Source: The Busted Homes Behind a Big Bet CARRICK MOLLENKAMP , MARK WHITEHOUSE And ANTON...
Some “Inside Baseball” On The Goldman Case
In the post below we said that the Goldman case is a game changer. We said that based on two assumptions. One was that Goldman loses its...
Existing Home Sales Gain Aheadof Tax Credit Expiration
We haven’t looked at this chart in a while, but let’s pull up the ole NSA Existing Home Sales, courtesy of Calculated Risk:...