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Steve Forbes Video

2009-07-12T15:33:00.002-05:00

Steve Forbes drags Julius Caesar into the current financial crisis in a video from late June 2009. He compares Caesar's hubris to that of those who led our financial system into disaster. Hubris...

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What Will The End of Newspapers Mean For Blogging?

2009-07-10T08:33:00.002-05:00

Here’s the real issue behind the fall of the Newspaper industry. What will all those bloggers do when there are no newspapers left and they can’t scrape content from a newspaper while hiding behind...

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So Much For Chinese Demand

2009-06-29T08:25:00.001-05:00

"The International Energy Agency cut its oil demand estimates for every year through 2013 by about 3 million barrels a day, it said in its Medium- Term Oil Market Report today. Consumption will...

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Two More Oil Bears

2009-06-17T08:38:00.007-05:00

James Mulva, the CEO of Conoco Phillips said that the doubling in the price of oil off of its bottom to $73 a barrel was "a little bit ahead of the actual supply and demand situation and inventory...

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When General Motors Ruled The World - Part III

2009-06-13T09:26:00.002-05:00

General Motors was formed in 1908 by William Durant, when he incorporated the Buick Motor Company. Later that year, Oldsmobile becomes the second company to join General Motors. In 1909, General...

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When General Motors Ruled The World - Part II

2009-06-11T09:25:00.002-05:00

They Did Have Good Intentions

2009-06-10T08:56:00.002-05:00

Another video from a lecture series called "The Culture that Spawned the Crisis: A Closer Look" held at The National Constitution Center in May 2009. The speaker is Peter Wallison, who worked in...

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A Pathological Mutation of Capitalism

2009-06-06T08:30:00.002-05:00

I wanted to share an interesting video from a lecture series at the National Constitution Center entitled "The Culture that Spawned the Crisis: A Closer Look." Several speakers argue that the...

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When General Motors Ruled The World

2009-06-04T08:42:00.009-05:00

White Mountains Insurance Analyst Day 2009 - Part II

2009-06-01T08:26:00.003-05:00

Here are my notes from the White Mountains Insurance Analyst Day held on May 20, 2009. These are for the introductory section, the financial highlights and a review of bad news in 2008. When I...

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White Mountains Insurance Analyst Day 2009 - Part I

2009-05-30T08:21:00.013-05:00

The Mind of Wall Street - Part II

2009-05-29T08:04:00.003-05:00

I just started reading a book called “The Mind of Wall Street,” by Leon Levy. Levy died in 2003, but had a fifty year career on Wall Street and was one of the early partners at Oppenheimer and...

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FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile - Q1-2009

2009-05-28T05:48:00.001-05:00

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) just released its quarterly banking profile for the first quarter of 2009. Highlights include: 1) FDIC-insured institutions post an aggregate net...

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Varsity Notes

2009-05-27T12:29:00.007-05:00

I recently stumbled across an interesting web site that contains hundreds of free lecture notes and other materials for various courses at different colleges and universities across the world. The...

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The Mind of Wall Street

2009-05-25T08:07:00.004-05:00

I just started reading a book called “The Mind of Wall Street,” by Leon Levy. Leon Levy was one of the first partners at Oppenheimer and Company. Levy died in 2003, and was a value investor...

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White Mountains Insurance Analyst Day

2009-05-15T10:34:00.001-05:00

White Mountains Insurance is holding its annual investor meeting on May 20, 2009. The meeting is in New York City, but is being webcast. White Mountains Insurance doesn't hold earnings conference...

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The Credit Crunch Peaks

2009-05-05T06:21:00.001-05:00

The April 2009 Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending was released yesterday and the results show that the "credit crunch," may have peaked. Here are highlights: Forty percent of...

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Gulf South Bank Conference

2009-05-04T10:38:00.003-05:00

I’m heading down to the Gulf South Bank Conference later in the week. This is an industry-sponsored event that has about 20 or so banks presenting to investors. These aren’t the giant commercial...

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TXCO Resources Gets Hit

2009-04-23T13:37:00.012-05:00

TXCO Resources (TXCO) looks like it may become the first casualty of the credit crunch in the exploration and production sector. The company just received an acceleration notice from its lender...

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What is or What Was The Financial Crisis?

2009-04-14T09:26:00.003-05:00

Here’s the bitter truth about the “financial crisis.” Things were never as bad as people thought, and now things are not as good as people think. Over the last six months, there was too much...

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Festival of Stocks Number 136 - April 13, 2009

2009-04-13T05:44:00.003-05:00

I humbly present the 136th edition of the Festival of Stocks. This is the eighth time I have hosted, and if you want to sign up as a host then go to this web page. Stock Ideas Jae Jun presents...

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Lympho-Maniac Charity Event

2009-04-05T08:16:00.015-05:00

Chad Landry is an institutional equity salesman and works for Capital One Southcoast out of New Orleans. Once a year he organizes a charity event to raise funds for research into cancer. He is a...

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Tom Gayner of Markel Insurance (MKL)

2009-04-02T13:23:00.014-05:00

Thomas S. Gayner, the Chief Investment Officer of Markel, will be interviewed on the blog - Manual of Ideas - on Monday, April 6th. Gayner manages the investment portfolio at Markel and has a strong...

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Origins of Value Investing

2009-03-23T15:05:00.005-05:00

The origins of Value Investing has been pushed even further back than Henry Clews. I am currently reading “Devil Take The Hindmost,” by Edward Chancellor. The book is an excellent review of the...

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A Letter From A TARP Recipient To The Government

2009-02-25T10:17:00.002-06:00

Banks have received billions of dollars from the government as part of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) of the Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP) set up by the Bush Administration. Here is the...

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