The Barron’s Interview: A Leading Bear Turns Bullish,...
As per your requests, here is the Barron’s Interview from this week. Note I sat with them for this in early November: >...
Frank Rich on Summers, Geithner, Obama Economic Team
I keep wondering why the honeymoon hagiography about the best and the brightest has been so over the top. Washington’s cheerleading for...
Getting Mortgage Fraud Down to an Art
Astounding: Orson Benn, once a vice president at the nation’s largest subprime lender, spent three years during the height of the...
Video: Mortgage Racket as Art
Orson Benn’s network of mortgage brokers wrote thousands of subprime loans in Miami-Dade which have gone into foreclosure. via the...
Crude Oil Support at $40
David Singer is a technical trader, who took a long term look at Crude Oil: >
Boston Globe: A field guide to economics and finance blogs
Very cool article in the Sunday Boston Globe: A field guide to economics and finance blogs: “As the bailout plan unfolded, the...
Joseph Stiglitz is Pissed
The Guardian has an opinion piece by Joseph Stiglitz that is simmering with rage and resentment. Stiglitz, perhaps a bit too early, is...
Why Washington Wants to Save Wall St. and Sink Detroit
Mark Gimein has a good piece on The Big Money trying to limn the ideological framework that has aligned against Detroit. He makes the...
Four Biggest Public Exchanges May See Slump
The four biggest public exchanges NYSE Euronext, Nasdaq, CME (Chicago mercantile Group) and ICE (Intercontinental Exchange) may see their...