25 Feb 2009

Shall we 'modify' away Wilbur Ross' wealth?

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Shall we 'modify' away Wilbur Ross' wealth? During the past few weeks the chorus of experts in politics, academia and business h...
21 Feb 2009

Madoff - could he have done it alone?

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What is the similarity between the Fritzl case in Austria and the Madoff scam? In both cases it is extremely unlikely that those close to th...
10 Feb 2009

More on Mark-to-Market

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See also: Former FDIC Chairman William Isaac on some historical perspective on mark-to-market accounting: Market Value Accounting Crippling ...
8 Feb 2009

Regulators too close to Lobbies

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Reading that Jay Levine, the former head of Royal Bank of Scotland's US Capital Markets Business, has made substantial donations to Chri...
5 Feb 2009

Failure of Accounting Reform

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An interesting article supports our view about the problems associated with Mark-to-Market: Jesus Huerta de Soto : Financial Crisis, The Fai...
15 Jan 2009

Death Spiral in the Banking System out of Control?

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After having watched the Banking System all our adult life (and some more) we are the first to admit that managements have committed serious...
12 Jan 2009

Incompetent Regulators

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'Catastrophic interaction of governmental and managerial incompetence that led to the collapse of Fannie Mae and Lehman Brothers' (A...
11 Dec 2008

Spending no solution to debt problem

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Jim Rogers - in-depth Bloomberg interview. In case you also wonder if spending more is the right way to reduce the debt mountain.
28 Nov 2008

Alan Greenspan - long on Words, short on Insight

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That is what he produced for years, and Media and Investors were hanging on his every uttering. It went so far that the gullible Commentaria...

Alan Greenspan - long on Words, short on Insight

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That is what he produced for years, and Media and Investors were hanging on his every uttering. It went so far that the gullible Commentaria...