RISK Mismanagement - What Led to the Financial Meltdown
nytimes.com 1/3/2009 — Post-Bubble Portraits The great housing-fueled market bubble couldn't burst, could it? The best Wall Street minds and their best risk-management tools failed to see the crash coming.

Links 3/16/09
nakedcapitalism.com 3/16/2009 — Monkeys 'teach infants to floss' BBC Women opt out of math/science careers because of family demands Science Codex. Please tell Larry Summers. AIG Bonuses – It Gets Worse Bruce Krasting. This post is NOT about AIG bonuses, but about other less ...

Links
quantifiableedges.blogspot.com 5/20/2009 — I have some sizable projects going on and some detailed studies that are taking longer than normal to construct. In the next few days or week I hope to have some exciting edges to share. In the meantime, below are some recent/current reads that I found worthwhile: Mr. VIX (Bill Luby) with some ...

The Enterprising Investor’s Guide 6-1-2009
blog.ockhamresearch.com 6/1/2009 — The price to peak earnings multiple advanced to 10.3x as of the close of trading in May.  The stock market’s three month rally has been the strongest for the S&P 500 percentage-wise since 1938.  Prior to the rally, stock valuations were extremely depressed, but the strength ...

links for 2009-03-24
economistsview.typepad.com 3/24/2009 — Geithner's plan isn't money in the bank - S Johnson and J Kwak - LA Times Making the world work again - Barak Obama Inflation 'felt' to be not so bad as a wage cut - EurekAlert Is Tim Geithner's toxic asset plan toxic? Mark Thoma and Dean ...

Dawn.com: Militants torch 30 more Nato vehicles
dawn.com 3/17/2009 — Militants set ablaze vehicles bound for Western forces in neighbouring Afghanistan on Monday in the second such attack in two days, police said. Militants stepped up attacks on the road through northwest Pakistan into land-locked Afghanistan last ...

links for 2009-02-16
economistsview.typepad.com 2/18/2009 — Bank solvency and the "Geithner Plan" - Bronte Capital Proposals to fix the financial system: A stocktaking - voxeu.org To Fix Detroit, Obama Is Said to Drop Plan for ‘Car Czar’ - NYTimes.com Co-ordinated inflation could bail us ...

Monday Links
aleablog.com 6/9/2009 — Being right is overrated put your money where your mouth is Ferraro and performativity: can economic sociologists cash in? Paul Krugman: The Wicked Economist? Maximum negative convexity More on maximum negative convexity What ...

We’re All “Dogs of the Dow” Investors Now
ritholtz.com 6/2/2009 — Good Evening: Grappling with an already confusing investment climate, investors were treated today to a GM bankruptcy filing and a scorching stock market rally. To the list of firsts previously set during the 2007-2009 bear stock market, we can now ...

Sentiment's Edge
sentimentrader.blogspot.com 4/27/2009 — The Bloomberg Chart Of The Day today shows that when the jobs market has started to improve from a very poor level, the economy at large was about to take a turn for the better. As The Pragmatic Capitalist points out, however, it's a pretty tricky ...