Category Archives: Econoblog

Chart of the day comes from Deloitte’s Carl Steidtmann. You wanna see what a bubble looks like? He’ll show you what a bubble looks like. There’s much more where that came from, and of course the comparison isn’t really fair: … Continue reading →

In the FT vs Bloomberg stakes, it’s looking increasingly as though the score is 1-0 to the Brits: Bloomberg put out a follow-up article yesterday headlined “Gold Fields Takeover Interest Can’t Be Verified”, and today’s New York Times quotes Bloomberg … Continue reading →

Ya gotta love Dan Loeb. Just check out his letter to the board of directors of PDL Biopharma, a biotech company he owns stock in, which is well worth reading in full. Most of it is a full-on broadside directed … Continue reading →

There was much press a couple of days ago when Trader Monthly announced that the top five earners on its top traders listing all brought home more than $1 billion last year. (Of course, “brought home” is a really stupid … Continue reading →

Last year, Vonage founder Jeffrey Citron wanted to take his company public. The problem was, he’d been indicted for securites fraud back in 2003, in a case surrounding his previous company, Datek Securities. So he needed someone else to be … Continue reading →

If you read my entry from last night, you’ll know I went to a discussion on climate change at Columbia yesterday, which was kicked off with a presentation from the man himself, Sir Nicholas Stern of the Stern Review on … Continue reading →

Let me stick my neck out on the future direction of housing prices in the US. I think that we’re in the middle of a mildly chaotic move from a pretty flat price distribution to one which looks much more … Continue reading →

There are few stories as popular as the ones ogling the multimillion-dollar paychecks of the business and finance honchos who eat at swanky New York eateries such as Balthazar and Telepan. I wonder what those masters of the universe would … Continue reading →

The lead headline on CNNMoney.com right now is “Home prices headed for historic drop”: we’re told this will be “the first annual decline in nearly 40 years of tracking.” The headline comes in response to news from the National Association … Continue reading →

Ooh, this is juicy! The FT’s Alphaville blog has come out and declared that one of Bloomberg’s biggest stories today is a hoax. The story, headlined “Gold Fields May Receive Bid From Pastorini-Led Group,” is very long, very detailed, and … Continue reading →