Wall Street Definitions, via Jeff Matthews
We have previously mentioned our fondness for the acid tongue of Jeff Matthews (see 2005’s Why We Love Jeff Matthews). With...
GS: Our Bonus Pool is Bigger than Bear Stearns’ Market...
Today’s chart porn is this lovely, lovely NYT showing of why Goldman Sachs is Da Man!, and everyone else on Wall Street are...
If the US has a Recession, Who is to Blame?
> "Alan Greenspan really made a mess of all this. He pushed out too much liquidity at the wrong time. He supported the tax cut in...
Pre-Thanksgiving Linkfest: Week in Preview
Yesterday, we looked at the week that was. Today, we preview the week that will be. We have an abbreviated week coming up: Wednesday is a...
3 Things You Need to Do (but Won’t)
I had a very interesting conversation this week with a writer/editor from a Men’s fashion magazine. Not, as you may have first...
Pre-Thanksgiving Linkfest Week in Review
Another week in the can. This one was a near mirror image of last weeks: The Dow and the Dollar were up, Gold and Oil were down. We...
The Big Threat of Mortgage Credit Losses
In various publications, Ben Stein has been flogging the meme that because the sub-prime mortgages are such a relatively small percentage...
Friday Night Jazz Soul: Sharon Jones
It seems that the ongoing retro throwback trend in music is continuing unabated. We’ve noted quite a few of these retro modern...
Fannie Mae Looks Like Hell
Fannie Mae’s fuzzy math: Fortune magazine reported that the lender changed the way it discloses bad loans, which could be masking...