Tag Archive | "stocks"

nice try, but derivatives aren’t responsible for this

March 18, 2009 No comments yet

Sometimes problems are bigger than we thought.  Sometimes we need a bigger boat.  
Here’s a reblog of an article by DKMatai which calculates the face values of “all derivatives”.   I think this article is sensational and incorrect to use this sort of math to estimate the size of the financial crisis.  
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2008/10/the_size_of_der.php
There are risks to [...]

Staggering 45% of $ gone; Private Equity ready to buy in, but what will they buy?

March 13, 2009 No comments yet

Stephen Schwartzman of Blackstone Group sums things up pretty nicely for where this meltdown might go when it stops melting down.
http://www.reuters.com/article/wtUSInvestingNews/idUSTRE52966Z20090310
As of now, 45% of worlds wealth evaporated in the past 1.5 years.  He mentions that the way out is private equity starting to buy into these assets.
Basically, it looks as if Barack will back [...]


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