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beta Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog

Beta Monsters (1).

Jesse's Café Américain Sat 2009-10-10 11:52 EDT

Beta Monster: The Most Dangerous Banks In the World

The most leveraged bank by far is the-investment-bank-which-must-not-be-named. It is followed by J.P. Morgan on a percentage basis, but JPM is far larger nominally than these charts indicate because of its much larger capital base. Its in the nature of the difference between a cardshark (GS) and a pawnshop (JPM). Or perhaps just the capital requirements of the short versus the long con. [Goldman Sachs astronomical credit exposure, trading revenue, derivatives exposure]

Beta Monsters; Dangerous Banks; Jesse's Café Américain; world.

Mon 2008-01-07 00:00 EST

Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: Minding the Hinges on Pandora's Box - January 7, 2008

"increasingly enthusiastic about the emerging 'dispersion' in valuations"; distinguish alpha, beta, risk free returns; alpha responsible for majority of the returns in the Strategic Growth Fund over time

2008; hinges; Hussman Funds; January 7; mind; Pandora's Box; weekly market comments.