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Monthly Archives: September 2007
Ben Stein Watch: September 30, 2007
I’m a uniter, not a divider. I’m a lover, not a fighter. I don’t like to engage in the politics of personal destruction. But as Jonathan Landman might say, we have to stop Ben Stein from writing for the Times. … Continue reading
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Song of the Year
On the fourth day of Crisis the markets sold to me Foreclosure loans Three French funds Two structured notes and a sub-prime bankruptcy. From Tim Price, of course. Go read the whole thing.
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Could the UAW buy GM?
As part of the GM-UAW settlement, GM is paying $29.9 billion upfront into an animal called a VEBA, or Voluntary Employees’ Beneficiary Association. It will also add somewhere between $5.4 billion and $7 billion more to that VEBA down the … Continue reading
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Look Who’s Winning a Liberty Medal
A rock star receives the Liberty Medal yesterday in Philadelphia. With her is some Irish dude. (Via TED Blog. Photograph by Jim Young/Reuters/Landov.)
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Apple Solves International Roaming Problem
Thank you, Apple! The iPhone is a great product, but one of its biggest weaknesses was the fact that it was incredibly easy to run up enormous cellphone bills if you use the data services abroad, either inadvertently or on … Continue reading
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Adventures in Aggregation
The entire econoblogosphere, in one place.
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Proof that Manhattan is Still the Capital of the World
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Econowisecrack of the Day
Tyler Cowen: Mark Broski, a loyal MR reader, asks: If you woke up one morning and said to yourself, "You know what my problem is? My damn discount rate is too high." What would you do, if anything, to lower … Continue reading
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The Economics of A-Rod
I neither know nor care much about baseball, which means I don’t read Will Leitch’s Deadspin. I did, however, read his excellent article in New York magazine about what’s going to happen to Alex Rodriguez’s contract at the end of … Continue reading
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John Carney Doesn’t Like Shareholder Democracy
How much do you care about shareholder democracy? John Carney, of Dealbreaker, cares a lot. He’s a fan of people like Lynn Stout and Larry Ribstein, who say that shareholder democracy is a very bad idea, and he’s willing to … Continue reading
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RBS Acquisition of ABN Amro More Likely Than Ever
In the battle for ABN Amro, the consortium of RBS, Fortis, and Santander has now clearly bested its rival, Barclays. The RBS consortium’s bid is about 20% higher than Barclays’ bid, thanks largely to Barclays’ sinking stock price, and Barclays … Continue reading
The Greenspan Irony
Congratulations are due to Alan Greenspan, whose book still sits atop the Amazon bestseller list, and which sold, the WSJ says today, 129,000 copies in its first week. Or, to be precise, it sold at least 129,000, and probably more … Continue reading
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Metaphor of the Day
Nouriel Roubini: The literally plunging figures in new home sales – now down another 8.3% in August alone, the lowest level in seven years – are the last nail in the coffin of a housing market that was comatose until … Continue reading
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Morgan Stanley’s Email Problem
Morgan Stanley has been fined $12.5 million for not providing emails. The Wall Street journal also notes that the company was also fined $15 million in 2005 for not providing emails. It doesn’t note that Morgan Stanley was ordered to … Continue reading
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When Bonuses are Contraindicated
Should companies pay out performance-related bonuses? It turns out that such payments might well be counterproductive: The logic of bonus payments itself seems straight-forward: by paying a bonus on the condition of success, the successful outcome becomes more attractive to … Continue reading
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The Search for Consistently Uncorrelated Assets
Are you worried about your stock-market exposure? Buy into something even more bubblicious: natural resources! That seems to be the message of a recent article in the Journal of Financial Planning by William Coaker. Coaker went searching for one of … Continue reading
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Something Smelly at the Fahey Fund
Michelle Leder points out that the Fahey Fund’s web design leaves something to be desired, and might have tipped off investors to the sketchiness of the operation. She might have added that the email address for the fund manager was … Continue reading
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An Interactive Guide to the Econoblogosphere
Have at it.
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Why 2-and-20 is Here to Stay
So here’s the weird thing about that Citigroup survey of pension-fund managers. Apparently the notorious 2-and-20 fee structure is doomed, even though the fund managers are going to increase their allocation to alternative investments: Almost 60% of managers surveyed indicated … Continue reading
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Airline Economics Datapoint of the Day
Market capitalization of AMR, the parent of American Airlines: $5.4 billion Value of AMR’s AAdvantage frequent flier program: $6 billion
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Misleading Chart of the Day
The Wall Street Journal has a story entitled "Tech Stocks Get Giddy 🙂" today – and yes, the smiley is in the headline. It’s accompanied by a dreadful chart showing three stocks which are currently at all-time highs: Research in … Continue reading
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GE, the Old-Fashioned Lender
Do you remember when commercial banking was all about knowing your client and your clients’ industry and having strong relationships and parking billions of dollars in loans in some dusty old part of the balance sheet which never got marked … Continue reading
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Alan Greenspan, Comedy Mastermind
The penguin nails it.
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When a Property Bubble Isn’t Speculative
Now that I’ve started noticing the "speculative bubble" meme, I seem to be seeing it everywhere. The latest person to use it incorrectly (IMHO) is none other than Robert Shiller: According to the Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller US National Home Price … Continue reading
Who Won in the GM Strike
Andrew Leonard asks today whether anybody won in the showdown between GM and the UAW. "There’s no triumph in this deal," he concludes. "Just resignation." I’m slightly more optimistic, and I’d say that both sides won. After all, a strike … Continue reading
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