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Mark to Pricey Market Data

| Fri, 05/08/2009 - 9:10am | easy to price easy to sell, investment exposure, market data, OTC |  3 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Mark to pricey Market data. I reckon 80% of my exposures are to listed instruments. They are easy to price and easy to buy and sell. The other 20%, and I am not telling you the value because I haven't a clue, is exposure to unlisted, unquoted, OTC, off exchange stuff. I own debts i ... Read more

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Fiddling

| Wed, 03/25/2009 - 10:35am | AIG, bank bailouts, Goldman Sachs, government bailouts, Obama administration, President Obama, UK banking, US banking |  3 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Fiddling. Now the US has decided to interfere with capitalism by ramming a huge lever into the largest cog of all, the unexpected rears its ugly head. Banks don't want any government bail out money and are trying to hand it back. They are however hampered by the small print of the ... Read more

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Printing

| Mon, 03/09/2009 - 8:45am | bad economics, economic policy, Inflation, printing money, UK economics |  3 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Printing. I have spent much of the weekend fretting over the printing of money. When I did my Phd in Economics [Editor: Steady on], the concept of a developed country printing money to stimulate was always just a theory. Never did I for once believe that a fully developed country li ... Read more

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FINTAG COMMENT<br />Black

| Thu, 10/22/2009 - 1:59am |  4 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Black armband day. So Goldman, JPM et al who were saved from bankruptcy have lobbied Obama to avoid comp caps and instead thrown BoA, ML and AIG into a cesspit where country club membership will be banned and a few top earners will not get paid. Savings? I reckon less than 100m. Pa ... Read more

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Begging Bowl

| Wed, 10/21/2009 - 9:40am | banking debt, budget forecasts, hedge fund commentary, Hedge Funds, hedgies, national debt, war debt |  1 comment

FINTAG COMMENT Begging bowl. So the UK's debt is a few billion off the budgeted forecast. Like the USA, the UK has its largest ever debt since the Second World War when there was a good reason for a large amount of debt - War. This time around, the reason for the debt is ...Investment Banking. ... Read more

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FINTAG COMMENT<br />Pop.<br

| Tue, 10/20/2009 - 12:59am |  3 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Pop. Funny how the people I talk to are waiting for the big pop. And yet they are piling into the markets because they believe it has some way to go before the big bang 2.0. Many commentators have gotten bored about debt, protectionism, Bernanke china bashing, export crazy Asian ... Read more

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FINTAG COMMENT<br />Marriage.<br

| Sun, 10/18/2009 - 10:59pm |  5 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Marriage. Trading is like being married. It is a contract between an ego and a lifestyle that starts out on the right tracks but can often lead to a hatred of that Bloomberg or Reuters screen and turns into a nasty love hate scenario what-if denial depression. My divorce started at ... Read more

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Ordering the Last Wine on the List

| Thu, 10/15/2009 - 9:33am | bad debts, Banking, Hedge Funds, hedgies, investment banking |  Add a comment

FINTAG COMMENT Back to ordering the last wine on the list. Why the media is so surprised at the latest stellar profits from the Investment Banks is rather bizarre. Any company that can offload its bad debts and get a decent fair value as well as pushing its hard to price illiquid assets into off ... Read more

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FINTAG COMMENT<br />Disenchanted.<br

| Wed, 10/14/2009 - 2:59am |  6 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Disenchanted. Spending all day and night grinding my teeth to the sound of the opening and closing bells takes its toll. I have been so selfish and focused on nothing but performance for the past few years. Performance on the race track, performance of my funds, performance of my c ... Read more

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FINTAG COMMENT<br />Flying

| Tue, 10/13/2009 - 6:59am |  4 comments

FINTAG COMMENT Flying high. The problem with luxury is it wears thin pretty quickly. It soon becomes a real hindrance as it is supposedly meant to be the best but it never is. Once you find yourself flying First Class you demand the best seat (having checked out seatguru of course), complain abou ... Read more

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