Showing posts with label Lehman Brothers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lehman Brothers. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 14, 2009

What was the Proximate Cause of the Market Meltdown in the Fall?

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Conventional wisdom suggests that the collapse of Lehman Brothers precipitated the meltdown that followed, but Kim Thomas, in a letter to th...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

A Difference Between the Dot-Com Bust and the Real Estate Bust

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During the dot-com bust, the bag holders were, for the most part, individual retail investors -- average Americans, who bid up the price of ...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

USEG Expands Share Buyback; More of Mark Cuban on Buybacks

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U.S. Energy Corp (Nasdaq: USEG ) expands its share buyback. It had already bought back about $3.1 million worth of its shares under its pre...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008

The Atlantic's Megan McCardle on the Politics of the Financial Crisis

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Excerpted from Megan McCardle's Atlantic column, "The Blame Game" : Naturally, the two presidential candidates are moving qui...
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Monday, September 15, 2008

Privately-held versus Publicly-traded Investment Banks

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In the course of work for a client, I've had some discussions with senior executives at a decent-sized, privately-held investment bank. ...

More Sunday Night Excitement

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A lot of news for a Sunday Night: - Lehman Brothers is filing Chapter 11 . - Bank of America is buying Merrill Lynch . - The Fed is expan...
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

David Einhorn on Lehman Last Year

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Via Seeking Alpha again, Amit Chokshi's notes on David Einhorn's presentation on his Lehman (NYSE: LEH ) short idea at last Novembe...
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

"Freddie Mac is the Cheapest Stock I've Ever Seen"

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So said value investor Richard Pzena 1 , of Pzena Investment Management , at the 3rd annual Value Investing Congress in New York last Novemb...
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