The Big Short, Michael Lewis I’ve been a fan of Michael Lewis since reading Liar’s Poker when I was studying at Cal a few years […]
Financial Musings
Chinese Local Debt
The below is an excerpt from a Credit Suisse report I was glossing over this morning. What I want to know: how can the world’s […]
The Great Reflation
The Great Reflation, J. Anthony Boeckh This book was recommended to me by a colleage of mine. Cheesey sub-title aside, it provides an excellent in-depth […]
How Goldman Sachs Created the Food Crisis
I have posted many an article on the Pink Lemon focused on the effects of speculation on commodity prices. The article below is from Foreign […]
It All Adds Up!
Flash Crash Controls
New Derivatives Rules for Financial Entities
Skirting The SEC
Mets and Madoff
Commodities and Speculators
An interesting read… “Hard evidence, though, of strong correlations between traders’ positions and price movement is elusive.” Even if there was correlation, I want to […]
CFTC Still Losing Its Mind…
Byron Wien Announces The Ten Surprises for 2011
Byron R. Wien, Vice Chairman, Blackstone Advisory Partners, today issued his list of The Ten Surprises for 2011. This is the 26th year Byron has […]
Quiet Before The Storm?
Earlier this week the SNB stopped accepting Irish debt, now Portugese… Are we in a bit of a quiet lull before the perfect storm?
“You Will Become A Poster Child”
Has The CFTC Lost Its Mind?!
It never ceases to amaze me the ignorance of those in power in this country… There has been study after study demonstrating that speculators in […]
Sentenced For Gaming The Game
Dear A.I.G., I Quit!
The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward […]
JPMorgan Earns $5B Derivatives Profit
By Matthew Leising and Elizabeth Hester JPMorgan Chase & Co. managed to generate $5 billion in profit during the worst year in Wall Street history […]
Mexican Central Bank Currency Intervention
Since the events toward the end of last summer emerging market currencies have been taking an absolute beating. Mexico, Brazil, Hungary, you name it… The […]