Counterparties

Strangely existential

Most stocks, like most people, fail to live up to expectations

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Abnormal Returns: Tuesday links: who’s your daddy?

Strangely existential

Whitney Tilson's blues: Yes, I'm lonely

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Sheelah Kolhatkar: It's lonely being an Obama supporter on Wall street @BW http://t.co/9i3Hbii5

Strangely existential

Behavioral economics suggests that your brain thinks of your future self as a stranger

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A man stands outside the New York Stock Exchange

Strangely existential

No really cares about which brokerage they use anymore

A demonstrator holds a sign while marching during the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte

Strangely existential

15,000 reporters stare into the staggering, newsless abyss of political conventions

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Are you better off without dumb campaign questions?

Strangely existential

"Groupon investors give up"

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An argument that Groupon's accounting is still highly flawed

Deals
5/24

Yahoo joins the gaggle of bidders for Hulu

EU Mess
5/24
3 Sources

IMF searches soul, blames Europe

UGH
5/24
6 Sources

"It's Rich Kids of Instagram, concentrated in one Canadian"

Bubbly
5/24
2 Sources

Private equity firms and hedge funds are recruiting first-year analysts again

Politicking
5/24

The politicians who hate food stamps but love agricultural subsidies

Housing
5/24

New home sales are up and "will probably continue to increase for some time"

Beer
5/24
1 Sources

Fracking threatens to destroy the German beer industry

Second Acts
5/23

Meet the guy who helps hedge funders cope with prison

Felix
5/23
7 Sources

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

Things We Don't Need
5/23
2 Sources

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

TBTF
5/23
3 Sources

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

Hoarders
5/23
3 Sources

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

Alpha
5/23
1 Sources

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

EU Mess
5/23
5 Sources

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

Crisis Retro
5/23

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

Yikes
5/23
11 Sources

The oil price-fixing scandal has landed in the U.S.

Fannie Mae "is regaining its swagger even as lawmakers plot its demise"

Wall Street lobbyists frequently help draft financial legislation

The deeper agenda behind Abenomics

Strangely existential

Most stocks, like most people, fail to live up to expectations

Whitney Tilson's blues: Yes, I'm lonely

Behavioral economics suggests that your brain thinks of your future self as a stranger

The profound pessimism of America's corporate executives

The shame and social estrangement of using a Blackberry

"The joy of profit" just isn't the same at big banks these days

15,000 reporters stare into the staggering, newsless abyss of political conventions

"Groupon investors give up"

Yahoo joins the gaggle of bidders for Hulu

IMF searches soul, blames Europe

"It's Rich Kids of Instagram, concentrated in one Canadian"

Private equity firms and hedge funds are recruiting first-year analysts again

The politicians who hate food stamps but love agricultural subsidies

New home sales are up and "will probably continue to increase for some time"

Fracking threatens to destroy the German beer industry

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 "

"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

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

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

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

Dairy farmers are drowning in Greek yogurt's acidic byproduct