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Criminal, Victim or Just Stupid?? 9 Aug 2013 | 06:50 pm
So Bruno Iksil will (apparently) not face charges. Hmmmm. I've had nothing to say on The Whale, mostly because the debacle (and its intricacies) have been covered rather well (particularly by Matt Le...
Team Japan Drafts Message to Loeb 6 Aug 2013 | 02:41 pm
It should surprise no one that Sony Corporation, an icon for Japan's collective successes and failures over the past two decades, has rejected Dan Loeb's suggestions for helping the company's share pr...
Greenlight.. Redlight? 1 Aug 2013 | 07:01 pm
Marrying reinsurance to speculative investment has held allure to many for more than two decades. Of course, everyone who has proceeded down this route has had a good reason, be it a tax roll-up, juic...
Some Out-of-The-Box Suggestions For a New FRB Chairman 31 Jul 2013 | 02:18 pm
I do not believe there has ever been such a fuss - coming from all sides - regarding the appointment of a new chairman of the FRB. Markets swooned when PV exited, but I cannot recall in all my observa...
Clever Dicks 30 Jul 2013 | 01:05 pm
At the next opportunity, when you see a clever-looking high-frequency trader, coder, developer or other predatory HFT enabler in the local Wholefoods market foraging for his dinner after "work", shado...
Syphilis Stages a Comeback 28 Jul 2013 | 01:38 pm
This article from Reuters dispels any doubts about whether Overstock founder Patrick Byrne is syphilitic. Raving looney rantings should best be left aside so as to not distract or confuse authorities ...
Lancing The Boil 26 Jul 2013 | 05:00 pm
Steve Cohen almost certainly didn't set out to be the biggest nor the most successful insider-trader in the history of the world. No one does, or could do, that with the requisite premeditation. Life ...
SEC Launches Torpedo at SS Cohen 20 Jul 2013 | 12:50 am
It seems obvious from the SEC's complaint that SAC was in need of a compliance oversight department to insure that its compliance dept was insuring that PM's were in compliance with SAC's Code of Ethi...
Confidence Crisis 1 Jul 2013 | 03:33 pm
I am in a reflective mood, navigating, what one might call say, a crisis of confidence. What is the root of this self-doubt? I am, you see, squarely in my middle years, and as I look out at the vast p...
Let's Play, Financial "Would You Rather...?" 20 Jun 2013 | 07:53 pm
With loadsa' people getting hammered, it might not be a bad time to take a break with your collegaues, grab a Skinny Grande Latte and play: "Financial Would You Rather...?" Would you rather have Bil...
