TARP 2.0

Johnny Upside: "I'm All About Distressed Assets, Yo!"

Today we bring you another interview with Johnny Upside (read the first one here).  Johnny’s a Wall Street hotshot armed with an MBA, very little brain power and a limitless ego.  Today, Johnny discusses his new venture, Distressed Asset Investing. The Reformed Broker: Hey Johnny, what’s happening? Johnny Upside: Happening?  IT’S ALL HAPPENING, BABY! TRB:…

Geithner Makes His First Impression…And It Sucks

As I watched the Dow Jones Industrial Average do that cascading-down-400-points thing that it’s gotten so good at, I listened in disbelief as our new Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner went through the whole litany of how we got to this point.  Does anyone really need a recap of the last 18 months and what’s gone on? …