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Wall Street Gains on Citigroup Rescue

Nov 24, 2008, 11:29 AM

President-elect Barack Obama was one of the few people that could have restored confidence in the financial markets through the appointment of a Cabinet members... Read »

Citigroup Scores

Nov 24, 2008, 1:36 AM

If you had any doubt at all about the primacy of Wall Street over Main Street; the utter lack of transparency behind the biggest government giveaways in history... Read »

Citigroup: Massive Rescue Plan Announced

Nov 24, 2008, 1:36 AM

The U.S. federal government agreed on Sunday night on a massive rescue plan for banking giant Citigroup (C). The plan consists of two key features: the Treasury... Read »

We, the People: Good Bank, Bad Bank, OUR BANK

Nov 24, 2008, 12:13 AM

With the news that the U.S. Government is on the cusp of striking a Good Bank/Bad Bank restructuring deal with Citigroup, I am left with the following question:... Read »

Understanding and Identifying the Winners of Tomorrow

Nov 23, 2008, 7:46 PM

My friends Fred and Howard each penned “Lost Decade” posts that offered valuable perspectives on who the winners of tomorrow might be. Fred points to... Read »

Why is the Balance of Payments Constraint Such a Mystery?

Nov 23, 2008, 4:31 PM

Fareed Zakaria usually writes very interesting pieces on international policy issues, but it seems to me that there is so much mystery about how the global balance... Read »

Free the Analysts From Ratings and Estimates

Nov 23, 2008, 4:14 PM

This is an often written about topic, so let’s beat this horse a bit more, shall we? Every year, in the October issue of Institutional Investor magazine, the... Read »

How Obama is Already Taking Charge

Nov 22, 2008, 4:46 PM

Obama’s immediate challenge is to fill the leadership vacuum created by a lame-duck president with historically-low approval ratings who seems to have lost... Read »

Why CitiGroup is About to Be Bailed Out and Not General Motors

Nov 22, 2008, 4:07 PM

Citigroup (C) was once the biggest U.S. bank. General Motors (GM) was once the biggest automaker in the world. Now, both are on the brink. Yet Citigroup is likely... Read »

Bulging Side Pockets: Turning Hedge Funds into Private Equity Funds?

Nov 22, 2008, 4:02 PM

Many hedge funds are in trouble. Whether due to bad security selection, issues that were once considered liquid that now “trade by appointment” or by... Read »

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