Archive - Oct 29, 2009 - Blog entry

George Washington's picture

Conservatives and Liberals Agree: Proposed Bank Oversight Bill Will Make Things Worse





Washington's Blog.

When a liberal labor leader and a conservative financial policy
analyst unite against something, you know that something is really bad (actually, I don't believe in the whole fake left-right dichotomy;  I think its Americans versus those trying to steal our wallets and our rights, but that's another story).

 

Reggie Middleton's picture

Hotel Hell: Reggie Middleton's Review of CRE and Starwood's Q3-09





How bad will the luxury hotel market get? Well,,, Pretty bad. All of those BS, "better than expected" earnings surprises off of severely lowered estimates stem not from top line revenue gains or economic progress, but from hacking jobs and cost cutting. Ya' think those Four Seasons', et. al. hyper-luxury executive suites are included in those cuts somewhere??? Here are all of those pretty graphs and interconnected hyperlinks to help tell the story...

 

Cheeky Bastard's picture

European Highlights: October 29





These are some of the more important stories concerning the European economy

 

Reggie Middleton's picture

Deposit Insurance Arbitrage





Hey, the little banks are doing their derivative thang too!

 

inoculatedinvestor's picture

The Unforgettable Lessons of Hyman Minsky





In the ongoing debate between the so called freshwater and saltwater economists about how the US got into this mess and how we are going to get out, what somehow often gets lost are the prophetic words of Hyman Minsky. Investors would be well advised to understand Minsky’s ideas concerning financial instability, especially given the current market euphoria.

 
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