Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… Good stuff: M&A boom coming to S&P 500 as cash positions relative to share prices climbs to the highest in decades. (Bloomberg) Or how about big M&A deals coming to the asset management space? Long overdue. (Morningstar) Big report on how to fix compensation comes out today…shocker: they’re not fans…
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Hot Links: So Cute Your Head Will Explode
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… 8 Reasons Goldman Sachs Says Buy The Chinese Selloff. (TPC) Sex offenders living under a bridge receiving stimulus money. I’d say that “stimulus” is the least of their problems, yuk yuk yuk. (DailyBeast) Buffett still selling Moody’s. Sucks to be a ratings agency these days. (Bloomberg) Nikki takes us behind…
Squashing the Goldman Beef
You can always tell when you’re talking to someone who at one point in their career worked at Goldman Sachs. How? Simple. Within the first 5 minutes or so, they will begin a sentence with the phrase “When I was at Goldman,”. This is the real world equivalent of Anchorman‘s Ron Burgundy telling a girl…
Breakfast Links: Toilet Paper Tube Sculptures
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The Epicurean Dealmaker on Harvard the Hedge Fund. (TED) Rushkoff on MicroHoo; Calls Yahoo “Microsoft’s Prison Yard Bitch“. (Daily Beast) Weak Dollar overnight, so you know what that means: Explosive global rally in stocks and commodities? (MarketWatch) CB Richard Ellis in the eye of the commercial real estate storm. (LA…
More Hot Links: Madoff Insider
More Hot Links for Weekend Reading No one on the interwebs has had more big scoops on the Madoff Scandal than Lucinda Franks of The Daily Beast. I just got around to reading her interview with an ex-Madoff employee who breaks down the whole organization and who did what. Some Highlights: The “legit” parts of…
