Where to get 50x leverage on stock indices (20/11/09 21:43)
Last Friday, Jason Kelly put up a very funny blog entry about his launch of a pair of fictional 100..
The Miller-Moore amendment's not that bad! (20/11/09 19:53)
John Jansen reprints some BarCap research on the Miller-Moore amendment , and now I think I underst..
The SEC surrenders to the oil industry (20/11/09 16:44)
What are the consequences of allowing multi-billion-dollar systemically important multinational cor..
Hitting secured creditors (20/11/09 15:34)
Ira Stoll notes that the Miller-Moore amendment has passed. He calls it the “Bair-Miller-Moor..
Counterparties (20/11/09 03:56)
A classic 2002 Calvin Trillin piece on wine tasting — TNY How TV works — YT HFT “..
Disclosing journalists' pasts (19/11/09 20:00)
Dear Henry , I'm not annoyed by you! How could I be, when you call me the “king of financial ..
The unbearable pain of 0.01% (19/11/09 19:08)
Bill Gross isn't earning much interest on his cash: in fact, he's only earning 0.01%. Tell us, Bill..
Overdraft opt-in messages: Brace yourselves (19/11/09 18:30)
It's good that we're moving to an opt-in system for debit-card overdrafts. But in order to get ther..
How to slow down foreclosures (19/11/09 17:41)
Buried in Peter Goodman's 2,300-word tale of Christopher Hall's foreclosure woes is a gem of a prog..
Navigating the news (19/11/09 15:56)
The indispensable Abnormal Returns has a smart post up on aggregation: Aggregators, investment or o..
Fire the lot of ‘em! (19/11/09 14:12)
John Hudson has an interesting round-up of responses to the signs of humanity from Goldman Sachs on..
Democratizing art (18/11/09 23:29)
I had a very interesting lunch with Jen Bekman of 20×200 last week — a woman who has jus..
Kicked out of finance, and into journalism (18/11/09 20:13)
Up until yesterday, Michael Whitney was a presenter on Bloomberg TV; he would occasionally get his ..
How US investors can play the carry trade (18/11/09 18:40)
When I wrote my blog entry on currency ETCs yesterday, I wasn't aware of the various carry-trade pr..
Providing credit to the poor (18/11/09 17:17)
Megan McArdle is cutting up her credit cards, but she doesn't want to force anybody else to do the ..
