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Stock Investing > The Longish View

Learning from the Collapse from the People Who Saw It Coming

Tom Hughes | Wed, 12/10/2008 - 4:31pm | bailout, credit crisis, Goldman Sachs, GS, housing prices, investment banks, Morgan Stanley, MS, ratings, regulation, subprime mortgages |  1 comment

With a new Administration in the wings, and the financial crisis, if not resolved, somehow moving into a state where we can think about something besides today's Dow Jones, thought leaders are starting to emerge with suggestions on lessons learned and what to fix.  Some of the most interestin ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Longish View

Another Picture, Another Thousand Words Saved

Tom Hughes | Wed, 12/03/2008 - 5:34pm | bailout, credit crisis, housing prices, subprime mortgages |  Add a comment

The experts at S&P/Case-Shiller make a valuable data set of housing prices available online here.  By chance or design, their index uses January 2000 as a baseline ("100" on the index), and that is just about the tipping point where houses went from being a boring asset class ... Read more

Personal Finance > Don't Mess With Taxes

Closer look at bank bailout tax breaks

Kay Bell | Tue, 11/11/2008 - 9:45am | bailout, taxes, Wall Street |  Add a comment

We Main Streeters must wait until next year for any potential relief from another stimulus package. Even then, as I blogged here , it's not going to be a stimulus rebate check along the lines of those issued in the first round of economy boosting efforts. But some big banks already are get ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Longish View

The Past is the Enemy of the Future -- as in, Our Future

Tom Hughes | Mon, 11/03/2008 - 12:02pm | bailout, education |  Add a comment

Fred Wilson, the venture capitalist with a terrific track record and a great following as a blogger, wrote two posts that I read as being connected in critical ways.  In Sunday's post, " Hacking Education ," he talks about the innovations that are reshaping the world of learning a ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Longish View

Yes -- Let's Lose the Bath Water, Please Keep the Baby

Tom Hughes | Wed, 10/29/2008 - 12:45pm | bailout, rating agencies, securitization, subprime mortgages |  1 comment

There's a great deal of uproar , most of it merited, about the contribution of subprime mortgages and securitization to the collapse of global markets.  It's not hard to describe in hindsight -- too much credit splashed around too generously to borrowers (individuals, companies, countries) u ... Read more

Trading > 247Wallst

The Car Czar: Auto Firms May Go Bankrupt Anyway

247Wallst | Tue, 12/16/2008 - 7:47am | bailout, Bankruptcy, Car Czar, Chrysler, economic recession, GM |  Add a comment

The car czar is a joke, a way to get a few billion dollars to GM (GM) and Chrysler while they move their companies in better shape for certain Chapter 11 filings. The two car companies are not likely to get what they want from the UAW, suppliers, and creditors without some kind of fight. Wh ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Longish View

In A Nutshell: Best Explanation, and Best Solution Yet, for the Credit Crisis

Tom Hughes | Sat, 12/13/2008 - 6:38pm | bailout, British Empire, credit crisis, debt-equity swap, Dilbert, Scott Adams, securitization, Stephen Quinn |  Add a comment

The Longish View tries to be sober, but you can be sober without always being deadly serious.  Scott Adams, the genius artist behind Dilbert, published a cartoon today that explains the credit crisis with deadly precision.  46 words (I counted), and he gets not only the cocktail of dis ... Read more

Personal Finance > Don't Mess With Taxes

More bailout-related tax shenanigans

Kay Bell | Thu, 12/11/2008 - 4:30pm | bailout, Washington bailout |  1 comment

Washington, D.C., is at it again. First it was the U.S. Treasury with its changes in regulations to allow banks to benefit from net operating losses. Now Congress is getting in on the bailout special tax break act. According to the New York Times, "A little-noticed provision ... Read t ... Read more

Stock Investing > Financial Skeptic

Ford Should take Uncle Sam's Money

George | Tue, 12/02/2008 - 4:47pm | bailout, Ford |  Add a comment

Ford (F) announced a restructuring plan that was drafted by their PR dept. Sell the corporate jets, cancel bonuses and the big guy will work for a $1.00 per year if they have to access any government financing. They are going to come out swinging with green products and market their way out. ... Read more

Stock Investing > The Longish View

Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words

Tom Hughes | Wed, 11/19/2008 - 2:56pm | bailout, subprime, visualization |  Add a comment

I've found the resource I need to explain how we got here to anyone who asks.  This picture (which does in fact also have a lot of words in it) is worth hours or even days of my time saved: http://blog.mint.com/blog/finance-core/a-visual-guide-to-the-financial-crisis/ The way it s ... Read more

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