How Greece hid its borrowing in the swaps market (09/02/10 12:55)
Beat Balzli has an intriguing story at Spiegel saying that Greece has been hiding the true nature o..
Goldman Sachs joins the blogosphere (09/02/10 12:33)
If I may put on my hat as Reuters Blog Ambassador for a minute (really, it says that on my business..
Counterparties (09/02/10 01:03)
Make sure not to get hit by a government SUV in Washington — Daily Caller Distilled Geography..
Debt taxation datapoint of the day (08/02/10 22:58)
I've been banging on for a while that one key cause of the crisis was the tax-deductibility of inte..
Can German wage hikes save Greece? (08/02/10 22:02)
Marco Annunziata has a diagnosis of what ails the PIGS: Germany has been relying on an export-led g..
Another idea for breaking up the banks (08/02/10 17:35)
Justin Fox tried to adjudicate a debate on Friday. In the blue corner is Philip Augar , a British i..
Citi reinvents end-of-the-world insurance (08/02/10 15:16)
In hindsight, one of the silliest and most dangerous excesses of the Great Moderation was the large..
Can Europe print money to get out of its fiscal hole? (08/02/10 14:02)
Warren Mosler has an interesting and provocative remedy for Europe's current fiscal woes: the Europ..
The second-mortgage underwriting failure (08/02/10 13:16)
In case you missed it on Friday, it's worth checking out Tracy Alloway's post about second mortgage..
Giacometti and the primacy of the fungible (07/02/10 23:25)
How did I miss the $104 million Giacometti ? Marion has a good round-up of the reactions, to which ..
Why the government should have nationalized AIG (07/02/10 14:20)
This weekend's big NYT story on Goldman Sachs and AIG does not, I think, say anything much we didn'..
Measuring total risk (07/02/10 12:41)
Peter Conti-Brown has a new paper proposing the creation of what he calls a Fat Tail Risk Metric, o..
Eurozone worries and market volatility (06/02/10 23:14)
I'm in England right now, spending more time going on walks and eating oysters than trying to keep ..
Immelt and Paulson meet again (06/02/10 22:46)
This event — Hank Paulson being interviewed by Jeffrey Immelt at the 92nd Street Y on Februar..
Blankfein's seven-figure bonus (06/02/10 00:41)
I was expecting Lloyd Blankfein's bonus to be small this year, but I wasn't expecting it to be as s..
