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Author Archives: Felix
Jockeying Begins for IMF Position
Is there some kind of rule which says that high-profile international technocrats
have to be French?
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New York State’s Mind-Boggling Economic Irrationality
I said
back in 2003 that New York behaves much like a dysfunctional Latin American
nation. Since then, most Latin nations have got their act together, certainly
in terms of fiscal policy. New York, meanwhile, has gotten precisely nowhere.
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Blogging Risks in the CDO Market
After having my coffee
with Armond Budish this morning, I found myself in the neighborhood of my
old offices at Roubini Global Economics,
so I popped in to say hi. Nouriel
was there, extremely alert and rested for someone who’d made two trips to Singapore
in the space of one week, and so was Brad
Setser, who, being Brad, wanted to talk about the potential systemic consequences
of a rebalancing of Arab states’ foreign exchange reserves.
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Control Your Money Even After You Die
I had coffee with Armond Budish this morning, who’s plugging
his new
book on estate planning.
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Whither the UBS Investment Bank?
Maybe the attempt to grow the investment bank will turn out to be more theoretical than real. Rohner is a veteran of UBS’s buy side; it’s not yet clear that he has a lot of love or understanding for the sell-siders in New York.
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Monday Morning Links are Feeling Charitable
I’m going to be travelling for a large part of this morning, and then having
coffee with an expert on estate planning, so here’s a few links to keep you
going until I can get up and running.
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Who Will Get Acquired On Monday?
Cotten
Timberlake has been looking at action in Macy’s and Target shares, and reckons
it’s consistent with the kind of insidery
trading which often precedes an acquisition announcement or a shareholder-friendly
spinoff.
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Why Dell Won’t Get Delisted
In the staredown between Dell and Nasdaq, it’s the stock exchange, not the
computer company, which blinked
first.
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The World Bank vs China in Africa
Africa’s need for infrastructure is urgent, and any African government should jump at whatever the quickest, cheapest option is. Right now, that’s much more likely to mean looking east than looking west.
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Crazy Leverage in the Hilton Deal
Russ Winter notes that Blackstone’s acquisition of Hilton
hotels doesn’t make
a lot of sense from a cashflow perspective.
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Payrolls: Unhelpful, As Usual
The monthly jobs report has increasingly little credibility.
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Bono Bashing
Does anybody have a nice word to say about Bono?
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Adventures in Technical Analysis, Apple Edition
Every so often, one comes across a piece of technical analysis mumbo-jumbo
so glorious in its meaninglessness that one can only stand back in admiration,
as though it were a Leonardo painting or perhaps a magnificent skyscraper.
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Wuffli Out at UBS
The UBS press
release announcing "senior executive management changes" (aka
the firing of CEO Peter Wuffli) is a classic of the raises-more-questions-than-it-answers
genre.
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Edward Pastorini Unmasked as Theodore Roxford
Theodore Roxford makes something of a career out of bogus takeover bids.
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How Citi Reached the Top of the M&A League Tables
Maybe it’s not so surprising that Citi is now atop the M&A league tables: the league tables simply aren’t measuring advisory services any more.
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Addressing Climate Change at the World Bank
"Marshall
Jevons" has been watching the telly, and saw Sebastian Mallaby
telling Fareed Zakaria what Robert Zoellick
should be doing at the World Bank.
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Hedge Fund Analysts’ Salaries Soar
Mark Malyszko of Institutional Investor says that pay at hedge funds is through
the roof.
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Economists vs Political Scientists on the Web
Ezra Klein wants
to know why economists are overrepresented in the blogosphere, while political
scientists are nowhere to be found.
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Emerging Markets Reach Parity With Developed Markets
Emerging-market
equities are now trading at the same multiple as developed markets
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What (Fake) Steve Jobs Thinks of the Music Industry
Could Fake Steve Jobs has the most astute
analysis of the simmering tensions
between Apple and the music industry that I’ve seen anywhere.
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Why There Are So Many Frame Stores
Bryan Caplan has vacated the guest-blogger perch over at the Economist’s Free
Exchange blog, but he did leave his readers with an interesting puzzle
in microeconomics, lifted from his
own blog.
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Blackstone vs KKR: Schwarzman Wins
Now that both Blackstone and KKR have lifted their kimonos for the investing
public, it’s pretty obvious that Blackstone has won the face-off.
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Carlos Slim, The World’s Richest Man
Carlos Slim is now the
richest person in the world. Congratulations, Mr Slim. In honor of the news,
let’s generalize wildly from this one datapoint.
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Where Hits Come From
Chris
Dillow and James
Surowiecki both weigh in this week on the subject of where hits come from.
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