January 7, 2009
Just because I didn’t get a chance to pop in and I wanted to see what was talked about, here is a Wordle tag cloud of all 187 papers presented last weekend at the American Finance Association 2009 annual conference...
Interesting Bloomberg interview with ex-Paulson & Co partner Paulo Pellegrini. The first question is idiotic though: "How are you going to raise money for a new fund?" Be serious. The guy helped architect one of the best two-year performances in...
Missed this back in December, but there was a good Planet Money segment containing interviews with Satyajit "Traders, Guns & Money" Das and William "Intelligent Asset Allocator" Bernstein. Check it here....
Complete diversion, but if your heart isn't pumping madly by end of this you're not alive: wingsuit base jumping from Ali on Vimeo....
This is such a lovely piece of understatement: This development is going to have a major impact on Satyam’s business with its clients. -- Analyst in NYT taking about billion-dollar Satyam accounting fraud (Source)...
Oil tankers doing the contango oceanic thing (Bloomberg) John Paulson Profits in Downturn (Portfolio) Boston-area commercial real estate sales plunge (The Boston Globe) US and China Must Tame Imbalances Together (Yale/Petsis) Why Spain’s Economic Crisis Is Something More Than...