Counterparties

Modest Proposals

Smart people confused / not confused by satire, Henry Blodget edition

Heidi N. Moore: "So what if they laugh? More money for me!" Oddly, @hblodget's paean to being hated will make you like him more. http://t.co/qGBeEiOs

Modest Proposals

It's time to sell Alaska

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Mitt Romney in 1990 with Bain & Co. founder Bill Bain

Modest Proposals

Journalists should work for a Romney presidency -- he's their stimulus plan

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Poll shows "the 47%" remarks hurt Romney with independents

Modest Proposals

The Uncollateralized BWCGTFBCWT Obligation, Series 17.01

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Downtown Josh Brown: this might work: RT @ritholtz: Uncollateralized Trillion Euro Perpetual Zero Coupon http://t.co/bG3I8Cpv $$

Modest Proposals

Securitize the Queen

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Mick Weinstein: Securitise the Queen! http://t.co/TPcktOq7

Bair gestures as she testifies before the Senate Banking Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington

Modest Proposals

Sheila Bair: $10 million loans for every American

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Binyamin Appelbaum: Sheila Bair has a modest proposal: http://t.co/TCkfjd7q

Second Acts
11 hrs ago

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

Felix
11 hrs ago
7 Sources

"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

Things We Don't Need
11 hrs ago
2 Sources

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

Alpha
5/23
1 Sources

No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Crisis Retro
5/23

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

EU Mess
5/23
1 Sources

Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas

Primary Sources
5/22
1 Sources

The full Fed Minutes

Oxpeckers
5/22
9 Sources

Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"

New Normal
5/22
2 Sources

While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"

It's Academic
5/22
2 Sources

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

Bitcoin
5/22
1 Sources

There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"

EU Mess
5/22

Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers

Energy
5/22

Why the structure of electric utilities is broken

Alpha
5/22

Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan

Servicey
5/22
4 Sources

Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be

JPMorgan
5/22

"The Too Big to Fail Subsidy is Negative Ten Billion Dollars, Says Goldman Sachs"

Corporate America's hoarding more and more cash, even as the economy improves

Rogoff: Fixing the eurozone crisis will require massive writedowns of debt

Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct

Modest Proposals

Smart people confused / not confused by satire, Henry Blodget edition

It's time to sell Alaska

Journalists should work for a Romney presidency -- he's their stimulus plan

The Uncollateralized BWCGTFBCWT Obligation, Series 17.01

Securitize the Queen

Sheila Bair: $10 million loans for every American

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

"The view that 'we have to pay a price for past sins' is nearly always wrong"

New rifle allows uses "user to stream live video and audio to an iPad "

No one's particularly sure why the Nikkei dropped 7% overnight

Ratings agencies are not rating RMBS high enough, so investors are ignoring them

Greek youth unemployment is close to 75% in some areas

The full Fed Minutes

Everyone secretly hates "Snow Fall"

While life may feel more fluid, "America appears to be getting stuck in place"

Slick presentations make you overestimate how much you've learned

There is a "disturbing cultishness to the Bitcoin community... everyone is as bullish as can be"

Italy considers job sharing between older and younger workers

Why the structure of electric utilities is broken

Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loeb's spin-off plan

Broker pitchbooks are exactly as sleazy as you expect them to be

How Jamie Dimon kept control during the shareholder challenge