Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT
1. to crash, to collapse, to plummit, to fail; 2. The rapid loss of confidence in one's capabilities from one's traditionally supportive network of friends, customers, etc. 3. Buying an item and then realizing a week later it is worth 3.33% of what you paid for it.
Thu 2008-03-20 00:00 EDT
1Q loss; Credit Suisse Bombshell; naked capitalism; surprise warning.
Sun 2008-01-27 00:00 EST
by Werther; "Fascism is a business strategy whose simple, consistent, bludgeoning rationale is, privatize the profits and socialize the losses."
Sat 2007-12-29 00:00 EST
Thu 2007-12-20 00:00 EST
Bear In Mind > Fannie Mae: Systemic time bomb; half of issued debt bought by non-US investors; risky mortgage exposure 10x capital base; falling home prices drive foreclosures, huge Fannie Mae losses
Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
Bear In Mind > Goldman and Lehman: How much did you hedge? Lehman takes 1% loss on fixed income portfolio despite "bsolute worst month on record by any measure for the fixed income markets"
Fri 2007-12-14 00:00 EST
"he best we have is palliatives. We can either take the losses, as the US has repeatedly told third world countries in similar fixes to ours, or we can go the Japan route of socializing the cost of propping up bad businesses and deals, or we can expand the money supply considerably and let inflation eat away at the value of the debt overhang." bearish UBS economist George Magnus calls for rate cuts
Mon 2007-12-10 00:00 EST
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; "Chinese plan...accept a loss of even $2 trillion if this means the utter destruction of the US military due to the USA going bankrupt"
Tue 2007-12-04 00:00 EST
CreditSights believes MBS pricing in line with fundamentals, since severity loss ratio is historically elevated
fundamental; liquidity conditions; MBS crash; naked capitalism.
Wed 2007-11-28 00:00 EST
by Elaine Meinel Supkis; Chinese forcing rising yen caused July dislocations; carry trade debunked; "money, like sex, is best done in the dark"; "England pretended to be moral and upright while looting the world, enslaving Africans, stealing gold,..., patting themselves on the back when they finally stopped committing one crime or another."
Sun 2007-11-25 00:00 EST
CDO Dumping Ground Still Sinking, by Jonathan R. Laing, Barron's Online; ACA Capital facing downgrade, destruction, forcing banks to recognize billions of CDO losses
