Wild Days
Floyd Norris notes that we have just had “two consecutive trading days when the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index rose more...
Another Crisis, Another Bailout
Only a week after the Treasury Secretary said that the government bailouts had stabilized the most important financial institutions,...
Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucks
Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved....
Three Day Rallies?
Dan Greenhaus is at the Equity Strategy Group at Miller Tabak + Co. where he covers markets and portfolio theory. He has contributed...
Rogers: Dollar to Be ‘Devalued’
Jim Rogers on Bloomberg TV The U.S. dollar will be “devalued” as policy makers seek to weaken it, undermining the...
Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
Via Mint, comes this not quite perfect (some causation omissions) but close enough to be intriguing enough visualization of the credit...
Turning Point?
Good Evening: It was simply getting too easy. For most of the past 10 weeks, market participants have been able to profitably sell every...
Pithy Quotes for 2008 Bailouts?
So the never ending book is coming along. Thanks to Paulson, Bernanke, et. al., it just keeps getting longer. One of the things I decided...
Lawrence Summers: ‘Beyond the Crisis’
The usually provocative Lawrence Summers takes a middle-road approach to evaluating the future of the economy. Here’s the entire...
What Citigroup Says About Health of Banking System
WSJ’s Deputy Markets Editor Dennis Berman tells colleague Evan Newmark what he thinks about the Citigroup bailout. He says the...