Green or some other shade of shoots
Reading snippets of CEO comments after their earnings releases highlights the tug of war between the bulls and the bears over where this...
Financial Pugilism and Offbeat Analysis
Proinsias O’Mahony: “Blogs have gone from being eccentric postings to become essential financial reading: SOME OF the...
Portfolio Cover Story on Timothy Geithner
Gary Weiss of Portfolio has just published a profile of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner:...
Where Are the Buyers?
According to the MBA data, purchases still cannot get any traction in response to the multi decade low in mortgage rates and the...
Delinquencies Rising at Fannie & Freddie
No surprise here: Even amongst the most credit worthy borrowers — aka “Prime” — defaults are rising rapidly. Job...
Site Issues Resolved
We seem to have buttoned down all of yesterday’s site issues (remind me to do major upgrades on weekends from now on!) A database...
KC Fed Pres Hoenig on “Negotiated Conservatorship”
Testimony Before the Joint Economic Committee United States Congress Thomas M. Hoenig President and Chief Executive Officer Federal...
Countertrend Tuesday?
Good Evening: While many investors felt stressed yesterday about the upcoming release of our government’s attempts to test bank...
Geithner/TARP
I’m not sure if this was the reason or not but Geithner in the Q&A seemed to be open to accepting back TARP money and would...