Amusing: Via Peattie and Taylor
FOMC Minutes
The new improved FOMC Minutes are out here (and in PDF version) This is the most notable paragraph in my read: "Participants...
Top 10 Online Financial News & Information Destinations
>I don’t know about you, but I find this stuff fascinating: The table below is from Center for Media Research on financial news...
Fannie Mae: Ouch!
On Friday, we noted that Fannie Mae Looks Like Hell. In the weekend linkfest, we noted the Fortune article about Fannie Mae, as well as...
S&P 500 Profit Flips Negative for Q3
This slipped by quietly last week: Standard & Poor’s U.S. corporate earnings projections for Q3 has slipped from prior levels,...
The Panic of 1907 (Book Excerpt)
Time for another book excerpt: I previously mentioned The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm by Robert...
Falling Houses
We get Housing Starts tomorrow morning at 8:30am Sadly Amusing belated autumn leaves:
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...