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85 ArticlesCrisis 2008

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Cyprus Deposits Have To Pay Bailout Tax; It Is India’s 7th Largest FDI Source

Cyprus is now in the news, as it gets bailed out by the IMF, the ECB and the European Commission. Unfortunately, as a condition for the bailout, all bank ...

Burry: Why didn’t the Fed see the crisis coming?

A phenomenal Op-Ed by Michael Burry, “I Saw the Crisis Coming. Why Didn’t the Fed?” I have often wondered why nobody in Washington showed any interest in ...

Einhorn VIC speech: Banks Even More “Too Big To Fail”

David Einhorn’s speech at the Value Investing Congress. Great read, even in the tired but roaring bull market: Einhorn Vic 2009 ...

RBI Governor Subbarao Speaks on Emerging Market Exit from Stimulus

RBI Governor Subbarao speak with a lot of unanswered questions, in Istanbul. (“Emerging Market Concerns: An Indian Perspective“) From the ...

Paulson, ethics waivers, Goldman and the AIG bailout

From the New York Times: “I operated very consistently within the ethic guidelines I had as secretary of the Treasury,” Mr. Paulson responded, adding that ...

Zero Hedge on the Stress Tests

Zero Hedge, a fantastic blog that I’ve only recently discovered, has some interesting comments on the Stress Tests that were recently conducted on the 19 ...

Crisis Video by Frontline

Excellent video on the whole crisis ...

CLO Defaults have “systemic risk”

FT: S&P sees new systemic risk in CLO defaults Standard & Poor’s has highlighted that many collateralised loan obligations – which pool leveraged ...

Obama is President, Markets Drop 4-5%

Obama’s speech yesterday was inspiring, admitting the challenges ahead and asking for a greater responsibility of America. It’s time the world owns ...

China cuts rates again

China slashes rates again (Bloomberg): China cut interest rates for the fifth time in three months to support the world’s fourth-biggest economy after trade ...