R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes comments on the Goldman Sachs controversy in the French weekly Les Echos. Read the full article, "« Le grand déballage ne fait que commencer »," Les Echos, April 20, 2010. For an earlier article by Pierre De Gasquet, read "Comment la «...
Back in the Bronze Age, when Windows 3.11 was the latest thing, I worked as an American reporter for a British magazine via the Internet. Yes, those were the magical days when virtually everything was in text, Usenet was around, and we all spent many...
Stock-picker Don Harrold interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes about his recent controversial encounter with Jim Cramer on CNBC. Watch the full interview on YouTube....
Ann Rutledge and Sylvain Raynes offer a timely insight into the intricate inner-workings of structured finance. Oft overlooked financial theory is explored and explained with expert precision, making the case for the industry to take a thorough and honest look at financial engineering and the...
R&R principal Sylvain Raynes is deemed insufficiently polite in a tussle with Jim Cramer over the SEC's fraud charges against Goldman Sachs. People who don't have a problem with that may enjoy this clip on Youtube. UPDATE: Bloggers weigh in on Raynes vs Cramer: Trader Mark on...
In a race closer than the 2000 election, the two-dimensional Date Night has apparently unseated the latest exercise in 3D mythology. Or at least it had, until the slightly bizarre recount. But no matter how the figures are re-jiggled (barring a Supreme Court decision), the...
Maybe we need to change the name of this column. Something a little more upfront, like The Wall Street Journal. Since you will soon be able to bet on the weekly box office gross, you're going to need some solid advice on the betting spread...
R&R Consulting Principal Ann Rutledge talks with Bloomberg Television about the "toxic" resecuritizations that doomed AIG. Watch the Bloomberg telecast on YouTube, "Rutledge Says AIG Had 'Recipe For Implosion' With CDOs: Video," and read a write-up on Bloomberg.com, "How Lou Lucido Let AIG Lose $35 Billion...
Success has a thousand fathers, but failure has a movie named Motherhood. This ambitious but unsuccessful little film has scored the dubious honor of having the poorest opening weekend in British box office history. Its US opening last fall was pretty gawdawful as well, though...
The 3D revolution is supposed to be the salvation of the Hollywood commercial film industry. Or is it about to devour the industry? This is actually a pretty important question, because we have now been hit with the first two major punches (Avatar and Alice...