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This is part II of the series I began with this post . In this review, we'll look at the drivers of the character of Gordon Gekko. While...

That's what risk management comes down to. Probabilties. The CEO of Wegelin & Co. clearly understands this. In this article , I thi...

Welcome to part two of what started out as a simple exposition about cloud computing and has turned into...this. I apologize for the delay i...

This post will be a bit different, but if you bear with me, I plan to relate it back to investing. This will be part I of a series (as I fou...

In my last post , I wanted to make a point about this, but I think I went in a slightly different direction and forgot to come back. However...

While reading this at the San Francisco Fed web site, a few things struck me that I wanted to share. I've thought about these issues be...

Yaaaay!!! Yay! While it's not the best outcome, compared to what the President is proposing about giving the Federal Reserve more powers...

What was that I once said about second order effects ? As my friend Equity Private might say, " Finem Respice ".

So CBRE says there is effectively no AAA paper in the CMBS market. The TALF program is only accepting AAA paper to be sold to investors. Di...

Wow! It seems like forever since I posted. I know my readers probably feel similarly. What happened, you ask? The short answers is that both...

Yep, I did it. I sold 60% of my position in UCO to lock in my gains. With the exception of $500, I've taken out my entire investment of...

Short US Treasuries and Long US Treasury CDS FTW! Okie, I go now...

Those of you who follow the hardcore investors and finance types on Twitter will recognize the name Dasan . A very sharp and witty guy who m...

I mentioned in my last post that I was stopped out on UGA . Total bummer really, but that's also the point. While the loss would have be...

Actually, it was more like "damn!!" but you get the picture. That's what I said on Wednesday when I pulled the trigger on a tr...

It could just be me, but what I found to be most interesting in the 20 May post from David Kotok of Cumberland Advisors was the story about...

This quick blurb about HSBC over at Bloomberg.com caught my eye. Why? Because for those who recall early 2007, HSBC was the first major ban...