Category Archives: remainders

Prince Alwaleed: Why Chuck had to go Redstone: ‘If Content Is King, Copyright Is Its Castle’: The codger comes out swinging. Who’s Afraid of a Falling Dollar?: "For the vast majority of the country, a ‘strong dollar’ is more like … Continue reading →

Deregulated thinking: "Deregulation could be causing higher [electricity] prices. But I suspect it’s only one factor among many, and would look relatively small if you could effectively control for many of the other factors." Bending Ears on Economics as ’08 … Continue reading →

Two for the pot: Citi needs more new hires than just a CEO. The Carbon Calculus: Energy sources which become cost-efficient if you charge for carbon emissions. No government after 149 days and no one notices: [insert obligatory Belgian joke … Continue reading →

GM Watch, Again: Foreclosures and Fees: Tanta on Morgenson. "High rates of foreclosure and bankruptcy are money-losers for mortgage servicers, not profit centers". More Bank, Brokerage Writedowns, Ratings Cuts Inevitable The dollar hits an all-time low against the Deutschmark Price … Continue reading →

CIBC: Citi’s math doesn’t add up How Messed Up is Citi?: "The SIVs may be why Citi held on to this crappy paper when it should have dumped it. It would have required them to mark the prices down of … Continue reading →

Paulson Funds Cut Bets Against Subprime Mortgages Media Maneuvers: Meta scoops: "The traditional definition of a scoop is that you got something first. The new definition is that you were the first in the neighborhood to yak about it. The … Continue reading →

$75 Billion Fund Is Seen as Stopgap: The best explanation yet of what The Entity can do, and what it can’t. Another VaR Horror Story: "In Q3, UBS experienced 16 (s-i-x-t-e-e-n) days were losses overshooted daily VaR at the 99% … Continue reading →

Research that aids publicists but not the public "Universal Widgets is not a very interesting company, widgets are not a very interesting product, and Nigel Snooks, the chief executive, is not a very interesting man. But a survey that shows … Continue reading →

Housing wealth isn’t wealth: Have you heard much about the "wealth effect" recently? No? Willem Buiter explains why it might not exist anyway. How Big Is Rhode Island, Anyway? Still Demise-ing: "In a world of greater volatility, mean reversion will … Continue reading →

Economics for Adults: David Warsh on pop-economics books. He really likes this one. How America must handle the falling dollar: Larry Summers on his favorite subject. Brad DeLong responds. Hank Paulson takes a close interest in vultures. No, not that … Continue reading →

The Joint Economic Committee report on subprime lending. Notes Calculated Risk: "In 2006, 29% of all mortgage loans were originated through mortgage brokers, but 63% of all subprime mortgages were originated through brokers." The Brazilian stock exchange, at the end … Continue reading →

Fed Plans to Increase Transparency, from Greg Ip. Mark Thoma provides background. 6th Grade Econ Question of the Day: Yes, they try to teach economics to 6th-graders. And yes, they do a very bad job of it. The economics of … Continue reading →

Richard Prince is "tacky" and "trashy". What, you think that’s a bad thing? How to Cool the Globe: Sprinkle tiny particles in the upper atmosphere! We should turn the clocks forward, not back: John Kay likes his daylight. A Storied … Continue reading →

Brazil’s Bovespa stock exchange could raise $3.67 billion in its IPO, on a valuation of as much as $9 billion. It costs $9.99 per minute to talk to a human at mortgage servicer HFC. The BIS’s Nout Wellink makes a … Continue reading →

News No. 1 in the world with $67.8 bil: News Corp is now worth more than Time Warner. Some points about the Superfund: Alexander Campbell asks pertinent questions. Dumpster Divers Go Mainstream In Thrifty Germany: My favorite WSJ Page One … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to try a daily links blog, where I can and will go off-topic a little bit, as well as throwing in a lot of those interesting things I run across every day but never get around to writing … Continue reading →

Sometimes a blogger finds himself with a vast number of tabs open in his web browser, some of which are getting decidedly stale.
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Starting on August 30th, before we invest in low-yield, illiquid securities with high default risk we promise to “think-twice”.
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Subprime: it’s not just about ball-bearing
manufacturers. It’s the
menthol cigarette of loans.
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Bill Clinton, blogger.
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Does Italy really have better management than the UK?
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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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News and views from around the web.
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