Mon 2009-04-27 00:00 EDT
The last, frantic days of Perot family hedge fund |
News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Dallas Business News ; Perot family hedge fund implosion
Hedge Topic in The Credit Debacle Catalog
Tue 2009-04-21 00:00 EDT
On Speculation, Wall Street and Hedge Funds - The Market Ticker
``securitization is inherently a process of wealth-stripping'' ``the claim of "wealth creation" in any of this "financial product innovation" is a bald-faced lie.''
Rick Bookstaber Thu 2009-04-02 00:00 EDT
Rick Bookstaber: Measuring the value-added of hedge funds
capital-weighted annualized returns measures hedge fund value-added; large hedges funds have on net lost money for their investors since inception
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Zero Hedge: PIMCO Holds Almost $120 Billion In MBS
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Truthdig - A Choice Between Peace and Peril
by Chris Hedges; ``Netanyahus assumption of power in Israel sets the stage for a huge campaign by the Israeli government, and its well-oiled lobby groups in Washington, to push us into a war with Iran''
Wed 2009-04-01 00:00 EDT
Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com
Wall Street on the Tundra, by Michael Lewis | vanityfair.com; Iceland's de facto bankruptcy; ``Iceland is no longer a country. It is a hedge fund.''
Thu 2009-02-26 00:00 EST
FT Alphaville >> Blog Archive >> The United States Oil Fund mystery
-- ETF distorting markets, raising doubts of front-month contract's viability as a hedging instrument; ETF taking NAV loss every time it rolls
blogs Archive; FT Alphaville; United States Oil Fund mystery.
Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST
AlterNet: The Best and the Brightest Have Led America Off a Cliff
Mon 2008-12-08 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Hedge Funds and Berserkers Already Liquidated in Masse
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Hedge Funds and Berserkers Already Liquidated in Masse
berserk; economic; Hedge funds; liquidity; Market; mass; watch; winter.
Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: "Hedge funds face record redemptions"
Sun 2008-08-24 00:00 EDT
Here comes the downsizing of finance
by Martin Hutchinson (Prudent Bear); auction-rate securities (ARS); credit default swaps (CDS); ``CDS market creates many times as much risk as it hedges or transfers''; GSEs ``leveraged more than would have been possible without the governments quasi-guarantee, lobbied like to crazy to ensure they were not properly regulated and collapsed thankfully into the arms of the taxpayer as soon as ill winds began to blow...by their presence they turned the soundest product in financial markets, the home mortgage, into an obscene speculative casino, causing collateral damage of many times their own losses.'' ``much of the financial services innovation of the last generation was spurious and unsound, and needs to be done away with''
Sat 2008-07-19 00:00 EDT
naked capitalism: Blackstone Uses Own Hedge Fund As Stuffee for Its LBO Debt
Blackstone Uses; Hedge funds; LBO debt; naked capitalism; Stuffee.