Here are the insiders at work…the people the central bankers are trying to help. Bloomberg has the story, from Richard Teitelbaum about a one Henry Paulson and his involvement with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac …and friends.
December 2nd, 2011 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "fund managers"
Gold in the Next Stage of a Bull Market
Gold is on track for its best monthly performance in a decade. The money metal reached $1,180 earlier this week, another all-time high.
November 30th, 2009 | Addison Wiggin | 1 comment | Continued
Dubai Debt Story More Like Bear Stearns Less Like Lehman Brothers
But first things first. Dubai World is not nearly large, leveraged, or systemically important as either Bear Stearns or Lehman Brothers when both those firms failed. For those reasons, it’s unlikely that the failure of Dubai World (and we’re not saying it will fail) would, by itself, cause a global deleveraging.
November 30th, 2009 | Dan Denning | 18 comments | Continued
Bear Market Bounce a Sure Thing
Well, we’re still not there. But an analyst from Morgan Stanley tells us that markets tend to do better than that. The typical bounce is about 70%, says he.
October 26th, 2009 | Bill Bonner | 0 comments | Continued
China and its Perplexing Investment Strategy
But let’s start with sovereign wealth fund of China, the China Investment Corporation (CIC). CIC was set up in 2007 with US$200 billion of China’s nearly $2 trillion foreign exchange reserves. It’s been shopping ever since, with mixed results. Last year, for example, CIC stood pat and only invested US$4.8 billion outside China.
September 3rd, 2009 | Dan Denning | 2 comments | Continued
The Average Investor Makes Far More By Accident than by Fund Manager
This they did in the last two decades with a variety of gaudy theories. It didn’t seem to matter that the theories were contradictory and absurd. On the one hand, prices were said to move randomly – permitting them to ‘model’ risk and sell extravagant securities. On the other hand, private equity experts and fund managers pretended to know which way the ‘random’ movements would go…
May 26th, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 2 comments | Continued
