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• AIG, the Sequel

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 476
  "After shelling out billions of dollars to Wall Street banks last year on souring trades, [AIG] has gotten some of that money back, thanks to a turnaround in the very securities that helped to level the insurer. ... For the second quarter, the figure may have topped $3 billion, public filings suggest. Goldman Sachs ...
  4 days ago

• Economists Dont Learn

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 476
  "The pain of the financial crisis has economists striving to understand precisely why it happened and how to prevent a repeat. For that task, John Geanakopolos of Yale University takes inspiration from Shakespeares Merchant of Venice. ... For years, his effort to understand this process didnt draw much interest. Now ...
  1 week ago

• Feeding the Vampire Squid

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 476
  Calculated Risk has a 1 November 2009 post about the Vampire Squids (VS) bets on the US housing crash and how it sold clients mortgage-backed securities while expecting they would fall in value. Heres a link: http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/2009/11/report-on-goldmans-bets-on-housing.html . Is anyone surprised VS ...
  1 week ago

• The Partnership Between Wall Street and the Government Will Continue Until the System Collapses

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  “Hindsight is a wonderful thing,” said Timothy W. Long, the chief bankexaminer for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. “At the height ofthe economic boom, to take an aggressive supervisory approach and tell people tostop lending is hard to do.” Post Mortems Reveal Obvious Risks at Banks, NY ...
  1 week ago

• SP 500 Daily Chart: Pete and Repeat Were on a Boat...

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  Just another day doing Gods work on earth..."Hello Lloyd? Yeah, Larry and I were talking, and we would like to see the market go up, not too fast, but on a nice gentle slope, within a range.Whatever you make doing this is yours to keep. Ben will supply the liquidity. We need to make it look like the Administrations ...
  1 week ago

• Citigroups Death Rattle

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 476
  "Over the past 80 years, the [US] government has engineered not one, not two, not three, but at least four rescues of the institution now known as Citigroup. In previous instances, the bank came back from the crisis and prospered. ... Chris Whalen, editor of the Institutional Risk Analyst, calls Citigroup the queen of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Jeremy Siegel on the EMH

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 476
  "Financial journalist and best-selling author Roger Lowenstein didnt mince any words in a piece for the Washington Post this summer, The upside of the current Great Recession is that is could drive a stake through the heart of the academic nostrum known as the efficient-market hypothesis. ... But is the Efficient ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr.Mishkin: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bubble

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  Former Fed governor Fred Mishkin distinguishes between bad bubbles, that hurt banks, and good bubbles like the tech bubble, that just hurt investors and distort the economy.Is the Fed creating a bubble in equities now? Probably. Do they care, are they concerned? No, not according to ex Fed governor Fred Mishkin.We ...
  3 weeks ago

• Krugman Declares "Mission Accomplished," Maginot Line Completed

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  The triumph of financial engineering based on an analysis of the past.Conscience of a LiberalThe story so far, in one pictureBy Paul KrugmanNovember 3, 2009World industrial production in the Great Depression and now:Jesse here. This chart is a bit deceptive because it compares two periods of time based on the start of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Value creating CEO - Steve Jobs, Innovation and Apple

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 416
  $150billion.   Thats a lot of money.  And thats how much shareholder value has increased at Apple since Steve Jobs returned as CEO.   Can you think of any other CEO that has aided shareholder wealth so much?  Do any of the cost cutting CEOs in manufacturing companies, financial services firms, or media companies ...
  3 weeks ago

• Questions on Accuracy Delay Much-Awaited F.H.A. Audit

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Just as the report on the Federal Housing Administration was about to be made public, the auditor, Integrated Financial Engineering, said computer models were producing inconsistencies.
  3 weeks ago

• No more overreliance on consumer spending sagt Volcker

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said his meeting on Monday with President Barack Obama focused in part on reducing U.S. economic reliance on consumer spending.The alternatives to help bolster future economic growth include boosting exports, applying innovative technology to green issues and improving the ...
  3 weeks ago

• No more overreliance on consumer spending sagt Volcker

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 136
  White House economic adviser Paul Volcker said his meeting on Monday with President Barack Obama focused in part on reducing U.S. economic reliance on consumer spending. The alternatives to help bolster future economic growth include boosting exports, applying innovative technology to green issues and improving the ...
  3 weeks ago

• About The Jobless Recovery ....

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  For the first time we had a jobless recovery after the tech bubble bust thanks to the wonders of Greenspans monetary expansion and the willingness (gullibility?) of the average American to assume enormous amounts of debt, largely based on home mortgages, the house as ATM phenomenon. Not to mention the large, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fun with Max Keiser and Paul Craig Roberts, and A Dash of Marc Faber

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 635
  As always overstated, but interesting nonetheless, despite the short but obnoxious commecial at the beginning. Max Keiser is an ex-patriate American living in Paris. Paul Craig Roberts is a former official with the Reagan Treasury. Maxs forte is excess, with valid points throughout. Paul Craig Roberts talks ...
  5 weeks ago

• Ranking of Financial Engineering / Mathematical Finance MS Programs

  
  Admission Sync — Authority: 115
    Rank School Program Tuition$ Type Duration       (000)   Years 1-5 Carnegie MS Computational Finance 74 FT/PT 1.5   1-5 Columbia MS Financial Eng 47 FT 1 1-5 Princeton MS Finance 73 FT 2 1-5 ...
  5 weeks ago

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