Thanks to Barry Ritholtz, I came across this latest by Matt Taibbi (famous for his description of Goldman Sachs as vampire squid) on how the present democratic administration sold out to Wall Street. I have not read it. But, thought I should flag it. It should be interesting.
I was there in CNBC studios in Singapore [...]
Alastair Darling’s one-off bonus windfall tax seems theoretically sound, to me. People can quibble with the floor above which the tax is applicable but the principle is sound. Emanuel Derman wrote about it a while ago. I had blogged it here. He reckoned that since bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, he felt that it [...]
I have not posted in a long time. It was not meant to be this way. It just happened. Let me break the stalemate with a post on bubbles. Nothing original. It just so happens to be the topic on which I spoke in Mumbai over the weekend. The Indian Alumni Association of the Asian [...]
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