I would like to tell you about the recent Unites States long-term credit rating downgrade by S&P. Now surely, the Republic will stand regardless of the doom and gloom the S&P minions may see in their crystal ball. Rather than piling in right away with Hegelian...
Over the past few weeks of this summer of discontent, the search for sub-prime villains has grown ever more intense and sordid. Media-bound auto da fe has been set up to burn the most obviously flawed Wall Street personalities at the stake of incompetence, allegedly...
At this very moment, throughout this great land of ours, ordinary people dwelling far away from the chaotic nonsense known as Wall Street are probably wondering how so much money could be wasted by so few people -- people who, in fact, live in another...
Step 1:For God's sake, relax! Everyone is so uptight right now that we can't even think. We will only get out of this mess by thinking, not by reacting prematurely with adolescent measures and childish pronouncements. Step 2:Suspend all further Treasury loans to Wall Street...
My recent post on the sorry state of financial engineering seems to have touched a raw nerve in the FE community. I will not attempt to respond to anonymous comments since the US Constitution gives every citizen the right to look his accusers in the eye....
We are the CDO makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams. Betting on lone loss triggers, and trading in eclectic teams. Spread losers and yield forsakers, for whom the pale bonus gleams. Yet we are the sole underwriters, of the deals, forever it seems! Fantasia on a Theme by William Blake All over...
It's probably fair to say that, at this very moment, many of you are looking for an easy resolution, something that would enable you to move on, to accept the unacceptable. You are wondering how the devil we got here, how we could possibly "lose"...
The last entry in this journal was rather pessimistic. In it, we recounted what was likely to happen from the Fed’s irresponsible attitude towards cutting interest rates without a workable plan in mind about what to do next. Our verdict was that nothing good was...
Just a few days ago, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve pumped enough cash into the US economy to lower interest rates by 75 basis points. For the average American citizen, who would be hard pressed to define what a basis point means,...
The last six months have brought American finance to the edge of the abyss. Mortals who, not so long ago, had seemingly achieved demiurge deal-making status are now experiencing their Götterdammerung. A single question now poses and imposes itself: what will the next six months...