Counterparties (07/11/09 03:24)
“The Volkswagen Beetle did far more damage to the environment than the Hummer ever did, or wi..
Mutual fund fee datapoint of the day (06/11/09 20:41)
What happened to mutual-fund fees and expenses in the wake of the financial crisis? Lipper has crun..
John Reed apologizes (06/11/09 19:00)
John Reed wasn't even on the list of people who I thought should apologize for their role in creati..
Headless BofA (06/11/09 16:57)
Mark DeCambre is right: it seems that BofA is going to remain headless at least until Thanksgiving...
A global problem with no solution (06/11/09 15:22)
Mohamed El-Erian, the CEO of Pimco, sent me a note this morning which sums up the dire straits of t..
10.2% (06/11/09 13:38)
Wow : In October, the number of unemployed persons increased by 558,000 to 15.7 million. The unempl..
Price elasticity datapoint of the day, citizenship edition (05/11/09 22:12)
John Quelch reports: Legal immigrants to the US who are resident for five years (or three years for..
Why there can't be a cap on bank capital ratios (05/11/09 20:11)
I don't understand much of the mathematics in Nassim Taleb's new paper , co-written with Charles Ta..
CEOs: Founders beat out managers (05/11/09 16:33)
We're less than two months from a New Year's where a 9 ticks over into a 0, and so that means all m..
Those lucrative interest-rate hedges (05/11/09 15:05)
Peter Eavis notes something quite astonishing today: The interest rate on [Goldman's] long-term bor..
The roots of the coming crash (04/11/09 20:08)
I've had a vague sense of late that there's a connection between the weak dollar, on the one hand, ..
Schwab's ETF innovation (04/11/09 17:44)
Charles Schwab has an interesting new idea: ETFs which are commission-free for Schwab brokerage cli..
A brief history of Goldman Sachs heads (04/11/09 15:50)
With Jon Corzine losing the governorship of New Jersey yesterday, it was yet another bad day for fo..
Building boring nationalized companies (04/11/09 13:25)
I'm back, relaxed, after the longest amount of time I've spent off-blog in three years. Trying to g..
Gone fishing (22/10/09 18:02)
This is getting a bit surreal: both Clusterstock and Dealbreaker are now phoning up Charlie Gaspari..
