Sunday, November 8, 2009

Steepening curve - the only logical outcome

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Gradually but surely, the US treasury curve continues to steepen. In this environment it's simply inevitable. With the unemployment ...
Saturday, November 7, 2009

Risk management wisdom from the math department

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Want to learn about the future of risk management? NYU is on top of it - they know risk management is all about mathematics. They are of...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Sponsors' pain rankings

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The chart below from Moody's takes a sober look at the performance of the largest LBO firms. It presents the percentages of LBO deals b...
Thursday, November 5, 2009

Colleges struggle with "net tuition" revenue

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If you are paying for a private college in the US, you know how painful it is to write that check (often over $20k) every semester. The c...
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Only the strongest survive (and thrive) in the CP markets

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Money market funds continue to struggle to put cash to work , searching for product that would comply with pending new regulation, yet prov...
Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The bipolar nature of inflation expectations

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Back in July we've discussed the tremendous uncertainty surrounding longer-term inflation expectations for the US. This is not an acad...

Did "hedge everything" policy push Goldman into a bad deal?

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Ed Grebeck, CEO of Tempus Advisors had an interesting story to share that may be pertinent to the recent Sober Look post on the Goldman - B...

Foreclosures and the unemployment rate maps

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This may be "intuitively obvious", but it's worth looking at these two maps next to each other. Map of home foreclosures: sour...