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In 2004, while the housing market was going strong and Wall Street was churning out mortgage backed securities, a former Dr. and now hedge fund manager named Michael Burry began to take big bets...
Malcolm Gladwell's book The Tipping Point is a popular read at the moment, gracing many of the world's best seller lists. What exactly is Gladwell talking about and what is there to learn from a...
Harvard today announced that its endowment had dropped by 22% or $8 billion. The loss is greater than the total endowments of all but 4 universities. This marks the popping of one of the last...
The graph below shows what the return on this strategy would look like. I was a bit surprised at just how well it did. Clearly, preserving capital, even when it is stashed in unsexy, lower yielding...
Pimco, one of the largest bond companies in the world hasn't been redeeming its preferred auction rate security holders. It's still working through the mechanism of how to get the money back....
One of the largest money market funds has frozen redemptions for seven days as the net asset value of its shares falls below $1.
THIS IS A MONEY MARKET FUND, NOT A MONEY MARKET ACCOUNT. MONEY...
This Kiplinger article has non-stock investments which are claimed to provide respectable yields with less risk than stocks. Some that were mentioned include blue-chip IOUs, REIT preferreds and...
A division of Cantor Fitzgerald, Cantor Entertainment, recently filed for regulatory approval with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for a commodities futures market called the...
More turbulence in the money market fund world as fallout from the Lehman collapse continues. Putnam closed its $12.3 billion Putnam Prime Money Market Fund while Dryfus and Columbia (a division...
Hedge Fund Manager George Schultze is complaining because the government's bankruptcy settlement for Chrysler puts the worker's underfunded pension obligations above his bond investments. He...
Banks seem more competitive than ever to give away free gifts, cash, or other rewards to bring in new online customers. I think these deals might get even better if interest rates get lower and it...
After the mortgage business imploded last year, Wall Street investment banks began searching for another big idea to make money. They think they may have found one, life-insurance securitizations....