All our times have come
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April 2013
Six-Year-Old Drummer Plays ‘Hot For Teacher’
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Jim Chanos on the Cycle of Frauds
The below section comes from a larger, must-read Jim Chanos interview that just popped up at Salon.com, of all places. In it, the legendary skeptic and short-selling maven talks about why frauds tend to cluster around the back-half of expansions and booms… What do we know about the timing of frauds? When are they most…
Wall Street’s “Original Sin”
I’d like to share with you a key pair of sentences from the congressional report on MF Global’s collapse, summing up a long investigation led by Louis Freeh: Corzine, an active trader at the firm, was supposed to be supervised by the company’s chief compliance officer. But the oversight mechanism was put in place to…
Ritholtz and Vigna Talk Markets, Endless Intervention
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Boy, Interrupted
There I am, minding my own business and taking my first weekend away from the work and the kids in god-know-how-long and before you know it, I’m doubled over in gastrointestinal agony. One moment I’m having dinner with my wife and our friends at a New Jersey mountaintop resort and the next thing I know…
361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing
361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…