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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
By Trader Mark. Some great posts this weekend over at The Big Picture by Barry Ritholtz; Barry is essentially the trailblazer of financial blogging and many a blogger has followed in his footsteps. In my piecethis past week on the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.a) Burlington Northern (BNI) buyout I didn't have time to get into it but detail oriented readers might of noticed this seemingly...
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Fund my Mutual Fund (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Some great posts this weekend over at "The Big Picture" by Barry Ritholtz; Barry is essentially the "trailblazer" of financial blogging and many a blogger has followed in his footsteps. In my piece this past week on the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.a) Burlington Northern (BNI) buyout I didn't have time to get into it but detail oriented readers might of noticed this...
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The Complete MoneyScience (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
moneyscience: Barry Ritholtz on The Hubris of Economics - http://bit.ly/3Ase1c
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The Left Coaster (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
In the past couple weeks, a couple of very powerful bankers literally invoked the name of Jesus , to defend their obscenely exorbitant profits ; and today, there is a buzz about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein claiming he doing God's work . Well, Senator Bernie Sanders is apparently without fear, because he is ready to take on these self-styled saints. As explained by Barry Ritholtz...
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The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... then! One of the more widely read and take-no-prisoners posts on the topic this weekend comes from Barry Ritholtz at The Big Picture : This paper transaction would have provided precisely zero value to the taxpayers, and allowed these firms to add to the piles of bailout monies already received by avoiding billions of dollars in taxes otherwise legally owed. It would have been a license...
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George Washington's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... School of Economics who served on the Bank of England's policy-making committee until recently. Barry Ritholtz has an excellent criticism of the article, pointing out : There are many areas I would have liked to see the [journal's] article explore: The lack of Scientific Method, the mostly awful performance of economists, its misunderstanding of the value of modeling, the bias inherent...
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FinanceProfessor.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
The Hubris of Economics | The Big Picture:Barry Ritholtz discussing a WSJ piece ( Crisis Compels Economists To Reach for New Paradigm.) "...an intriguing look at the problems of the the field of economics. It went, however, way too easy on both the profession and its practitioners. The article fails to ask some very basic questions about the soft science, and does not discuss the...
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naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... School of Economics who served on the Bank of England’s policy-making committee until recently. Barry Ritholtz has an excellent criticism of the article, pointing out : There are many areas I would have liked to see the [journal's] article explore: The lack of Scientific Method, the mostly awful performance of economists, its misunderstanding of the value of modeling, the bias inherent...
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Abnormal Returns (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... between a too-big-to-fail bank and a too-big-to-fail automaker: leverage.” ( Felix Salmon ) Barry Ritholtz , “The belief in the validity of their models — like the theories they are based upon — is the Achilles heel of the profession.” ( Big Picture ) Bloggers go to the Treasury . Still no plan to really deal with TBTF. ( naked capitalism , Accrued Interest , Financial Armageddon...
