March 2010
March 31, 2010 –
I've read a lot of stupid articles over the years, but this one may be the stupidest. [more]
March 30, 2010 –
What is the cause of the historical success of short-sellers? It appears that now we have an answer. [more]
March 29, 2010 –
A soon-to-be-released study has found that 80 percent of active traders lost money. Actually, that doesn’t surprise me so much. [more]
March 26, 2010 –
I highly recommend this excellent piece by David Leonhardt entitled, Heading Off The Next Financial Crisis. [more]
March 26, 2010 –
As the market continues to rise each day, now might be a good time to ponder these investing lessons of 2008 from Seth Klarman: [more]
March 25, 2010 –
It seems like David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital has been vindicated again. This time by an SEC investigation that delivered a worrying finding about its own capabilities. [more]
March 25, 2010 –
Last week, Congressman John ‘Don’t Pronounce It That Way’ Boehner offered comfort and support to an increasingly oppressed and disenfranchised constituency. [more]
March 24, 2010 –
That was the view of Lehman CEO Dick Fuld who felt that short sellers like David Einhorn brought the company down by questioning its accounting practices. [more]
March 23, 2010 –
In a recent letter to shareholders, Ebullio Capital Management had to report that it was down 90% since inception due to some recent, speculative investing decisions. [more]
March 23, 2010 –
In his provocative Value Investing: Tools and Techniques for Intelligent Investment, James Montier declares that academic theories and tools like the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) are complete rubbish. [more]
March 22, 2010 –
From 2000 to 2008, the top five executives at Lehman Brothers and the top five at Bear Stearns pocketed a total of $2.5 billion from cash bonuses and equity sales. Clearly, destroying companies pays. [more]
March 19, 2010 –
The health care debate has been interminable. The analysis has been muddled. And the posturing on both sides of the aisle has been nauseating. [more]
March 18, 2010 –
Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, visited us at Fool HQ today, and said that he’d ‘sell Tim Geithner’ during a round of “Buy, Sell, or Hold.” [more]
March 17, 2010 –
A way a lone a last a loved a long the / riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs. [more]
March 16, 2010 –
As a father of an eleven year old, I know a thing or two about how junior high schoolers respond to accusations of wrongdoing. Here are three typical strategies they deploy: [more]
March 15, 2010 –
As we all know by now, taxpayers had to pony up $180 billion for the AIG bailout. That’s a huge number. So much so, in fact, that it’s very hard to get your head around it. [more]
March 10, 2010 –
AIG's shares are up approximately 24% over the past two days! [more]
March 09, 2010 –
What do you do when your pension fund is trailing its return targets? [more]
March 08, 2010 –
I'm having a lot of fun reading Andrew Ross Sorkin's "Too Big Too Fail." It's sort of like a People Magazine about investment bankers. [more]
March 04, 2010 –
Who'd have guessed that former Bank of America CEO, Ken Lewis, used to live in Versailles?
Seems a bit ornate for most folks, no? BOA shareholders better hope that Louis XV's famous line doesn't apply here as well: "Apres mois, le deluge."
March 02, 2010 –
By day, I manage our investing talent at the Motley Fool. In my free time, I’ve been coaching my son’s basketball team. The Hoyas, as we call ourselves, have had a difficult season so far. In my attempt to understand how we might get better, I have learned a few things about both basketball and management in general. [more]
March 01, 2010 –
This headline says a lot about AIG and our culture in general:
AIG Seeks to Cut "Retention" Payout to Ex-Employees.
