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• Jeremy Siegel on the EMH

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  "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 ...
  23 hours ago

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

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  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 ...
  4 days ago

• Krugman Declares "Mission Accomplished," Maginot Line Completed

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Value creating CEO - Steve Jobs, Innovation and Apple

  
  The Phoenix Principle — Authority: 119
  $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 ...
  1 week ago

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

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  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.
  1 week ago

• No more overreliance on consumer spending sagt Volcker

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• No more overreliance on consumer spending sagt Volcker

  
  Get Out of Dodge! — Authority: 137
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• About The Jobless Recovery ....

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  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, ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ranking of Financial Engineering / Mathematical Finance MS Programs

  
  Admission Sync — Authority: 125
    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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• The US Power Elite: An Alliance of Convenience or a Ménage à Trois?

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  "I submit that our spendthrift government, the Federal Reserve System and the TBTF banks together now comprise the paramount political tendency in America today. This tripartite "Alliance of Convenience," lets not call it a conspiracy, fits beautifully into the corporatist mold that seems to be America in the 21st ...
  3 weeks ago

• Martin Hutchinson on Capitalism

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  Martin Hutchinson (MH) has a 28 September 2009 post attacking: financial alchemy, economists, bad accounting, the Fed, ratings agencies, banks, AIG, Goldman Sachs, phony statistics and the bond markets. He writes heresy, "It would have been much better to allow Goldman Sachs and the other major counterparties to AIG ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dow 10,000: A Celebration

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  Team coverage today on Bloomberg by the Money Honeys as the Dow Jones Industrial Average crossed 10,000 intra-day, led by J.P. Morgan and IBM, two companies that surely epitomize the illusions of wealth compliments of modern accounting practices. Can you believe the NYSE had the nerve to prepare new Dow 10,000 hats ...
  4 weeks ago

• Not Again

  
  Skeptical CPA — Authority: 477
  "A new wave of financial alchemy is emerging on Wall Street as banks and insurers seek to make soured securities look better. Regulators are pushing back, saying the transactions dont have enough substance and stand to benefit bankers and ratings firms. ... The popular deals are known as re-remic, which stands for ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Sorcerers Apprentice Handguide to Monetary Witchcraft and Wizardry

  
  Jesse's Caf Amricain — Authority: 653
  The title of this blog may appear a bit rude, and it is not intended to be denigrating of this particular paper, but rather the organizational mindset that uses it to adjust anything more complex than the timing on a 1967 Chevy with a straight face and a clear conscience. Although a bit wonkish, the paper does an ...
  5 weeks ago

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