Archive for October, 2010

  • COMPLIANCE: Settlements Freeze
    , October 18th, 2010 at 12:43 pm, Comments: 0

    Smart and tough, seasoned and scrappy, prosecutor Robert Khuzami came charging into his new job has head of SEC Enforcement to great fanfare.  Journalists who [...]

  • COMPLIANCE: Qualitative Easing
    , October 18th, 2010 at 12:42 pm, Comments: 0

    Time and persecution brings many wonderful things to pass. -         George Washington We are reading the new biography of George Washington from the pen (ok… [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Malthusian Tails
    , October 15th, 2010 at 2:34 pm, Comments: 0

    “The power of population is indefinitely greater that the power in the earth to produce substance for man.” -Thomas Malthus Any regular reader of our [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Hope, Process and Music
    , October 14th, 2010 at 2:04 pm, Comments: 0

    “As long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance.  We’re still dancing.” -Charles O. Prince (Citigroup CEO) July 10th, 2007 [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Lecturing Myself on Shorting
    , October 13th, 2010 at 2:09 pm, Comments: 0

    “Not realizing that giving someone no map is much, much better than giving him a wrong map.” -Nassim Taleb I’m almost a third of the [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Inflation Wars: Snorting QE
    , October 12th, 2010 at 2:17 pm, Comments: 0

    “I didn’t even like coke that much, it was just a case of getting on whatever train I needed to take to get high.” -Carrie [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Defend Yourself
    , October 11th, 2010 at 1:57 pm, Comments: 0

    “Defense is superior to opulence.” -Adam Smith Thankfully, I didn’t waste much of my time this weekend listening to professional politicians at the IMF meetings [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Shallow Charlatans
    , October 8th, 2010 at 10:25 pm, Comments: 0

    “A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: American Bliss
    , October 7th, 2010 at 2:12 pm, Comments: 0

    “There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is [...]

  • EARLY LOOK: Guido’s War
    , October 6th, 2010 at 8:28 am, Comments: 0

    “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin America, we have a serious [...]

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