Bailout

Counterparties

Posted on October 12, 2010
John Carney has the best explainer yet on the foreclosure crisis -- CNBC

When brokers aren?t followed

Posted on October 12, 2010
I can't help but think that UBS's widely-publicized tax issues are hurting its US brokerage:

Can we trust the WSJ on Wall Street pay?

Posted on October 12, 2010
Back in January, the WSJ's Stephen Grocer ran an startling article about Wall Street's 2009 bonuses:

Tyson and Hubbard, blithe technocrats

Posted on October 12, 2010
Chrystia Freeland interviewed Laura Tyson and Glenn Hubbard here at Reuters this morning, and the whole thing was surprisingly friendly.

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How the Google car could boost electric-car sales

Posted on October 12, 2010
Google's driverless car is one of those technologies which makes me feel old, in a bad way: I would dearly love to have been able to grow up with this technology.

How to attend the Value Investing Congress

Posted on October 12, 2010
It's the Value Investing Congress today and tomorrow.

How Dealbook lost its HP scoop

Posted on October 12, 2010
The NYT's Dealbook franchise spent a chunk of yesterday in internal discussions on how to use Twitter, which is hopeful. But first they should work on their ability to use the web.

The Congressional insider-trading non-story

Posted on October 11, 2010
The WSJ splashes the results of a major investigation on its front page today -- so major, indeed, that it has its own ominous "On The Inside" logo.

Counterparties

Posted on October 11, 2010
More than two thirds of state attorneys general plan to launch a joint probe into fraudulent mortgage paperwork -- Reuters

The bumpy New Normal

Posted on October 11, 2010
Mohamed El-Erian delivered this year's Per Jacobsson lecture at the IMF annual meetings, and was very clear that the international community has failed in its job over the past year or so:

The UK press vs the FSA

Posted on October 11, 2010
Remember the FSA's hilarious attempt to stop M&A leaks coming out of investment banks? Well, the UK press certainly does.

Gasparino vs Roubini

Posted on October 11, 2010
Charlie Gasparino takes a swing at Nouriel Roubini today; I'm not sure why, beyond general unhappiness at the fact that Nouriel still gets a lot of respect both inside and outside Washington.

Sifma?s unhelpful take on the foreclosure mess

Posted on October 11, 2010
Sifma CEO Tim Ryan released this statement today:

Gawker?s numbers

Posted on October 11, 2010
Ben McGrath's long-awaited New Yorker profile of Nick Denton is out, and it has (unsourced) numbers:

Horowitz defends HP

Posted on October 09, 2010
Ben Horowitz has published his first Siwoti post!

Time?s running out for job growth

Posted on October 08, 2010
There's absolutely nothing to get excited about in the September payrolls report.

Counterparties

Posted on October 08, 2010
The market is paying a huge premium for traders willing to run weekend risk, which is when all the disasters occurred -- ZH

The solution to the mortgage mess

Posted on October 08, 2010
As people like Mike Konczal and Annie Lowery try and explain the foreclosure mess, it's worth stopping to think about a possible long-term solution to the crisis.

Bike lane datapoints of the day

Posted on October 08, 2010
Matt Chaban has found a new study from Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer, looking at the amount of misbehavior going on in New York's bike lanes.

The cost of being unbanked

Posted on October 08, 2010
Candice Choi has a great first-person story about the cost of not having a bank account.

Strategic default just got a lot more attractive

Posted on October 08, 2010
Has Bank of America's PR department been taking lessons in gnomic utterances from Alan Greenspan? Here's their announcement today in full:

Judging TARP

Posted on October 07, 2010
Warren Olney had a very interesting conversation this afternoon about TARP, as the official disbursements come to an end and the debate begins over whether or not it succeeded.

Where is the foreclosure mess leading?

Posted on October 07, 2010
Yves Smith and 4closureFraud have doing an astonishingly good job of keeping on top of all of the legal matters surrounding mortgage foreclosure.

Counterparties

Posted on October 07, 2010
The US govt spent $1.15 billion in investment-banking fees in the first 9 months of 2010 -- Fortune

Counterparties

Posted on October 06, 2010
Mexico readies century bond paying around 6% -- Reuters

Bloomberg?s move into consumer media

Posted on October 06, 2010
Bloomberg CEO Dan Doctoroff wants to become a fully-fledged media mogul, not just in the hermetic space of financial terminals, but in consumer-facing media too.

The IMF worries about international banks

Posted on October 06, 2010
The IMF held its first-ever blogger meet-up on Friday. 'The discussion here is on the record, because I've been told that bloggers don't do on-background,' said Atkinson -- which made for an interesting contrast with how they do things at Treasury.

For-profit colleges? increasingly desperate tactics

Posted on October 06, 2010
Back in June, it was very puzzling why Tom Matzzie, the former Washington director of MoveOn.org, would be waging a campaign against Steve Eisman and other people who are exposing the abuses of the for-profit college industry. Now Mike Elk has uncovered what many of us suspected at the time:

Whither the bank tax?

Posted on October 06, 2010
Remember the Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee?

Counterparties

Posted on October 05, 2010
On the evolution of Las Vegas-Los Angeles U-Haul rates -- MR

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