…Truth.
According to the kind Hindu fellow that sits beside me. Check this if you don’t know what I’m referring to.
The Structured Credit world has its share of ill conceived or just plain ironic names as well. Here are a couple of my faves:

High-Grade Structure Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund (A Bear Stearns concoction, not surprisingly.)
Absolute [...]

Via The Big Picture today, Ritholz shares a bit of blue-skying on whether the Big 3 (Chrysler, particularly, in the example) would fare better if they simply focused on design, marketing and selling their products, much like Apple does. Its a pretty interesting thought.
What the discussion really emphasizes is that in order to succeed, one must [...]

So I was hoping to be the only person in the entire blogosphere to not write about the 2008 Election. But I just can’t resist. Looks like there is going to be a record turnout at the voting stations, which is probably the most newsworthy item of the entire day!
Instead of writing about the outcome, [...]

I haven’t been blogging much over the last few days. I suppose its because I’ve been busy trying to make sense of what is going on in the markets, as well as trying to figure out a way to create my own “soft landing” if things really get ugly.
Ugly? You mean things aren’t ugly already? [...]

OK, so I’m getting a bit nervous about the Paulson Bailout vote that happens with the Senate tonight and the House tomorrow. Its become quite clear that the folks in the Senate and the House were scared six ways from Sunday after a 738-point drop in the Dow on Monday, and they’re very unlikely to let [...]

I’m sure that the broad opinion of the attraction of the Olympic Games is the spirit of international competition, national pride and spectacular feats of humanity. But that’s just the broad opinion. In my humble opinion, the attraction is the controversy that fosters seemingly endless debate. There are hundreds of examples. Here are just a [...]

I know that winning an Olympic Medal is an honor that all amateur atheletes aspire to, but I think I’d pass if I was risking being known as the guy who faked being a girl to get the gold. Gardian.co.uk says that there are five “tweeners” heading to the Beijing Olympics. So to all you [...]

My guess is, this goes over like a fart in church. I’m not referring to the release of the new GnR song on Rock Band 2. That video game will make a killing. I mean the Chinese Democracy record in general. I do think its cool that they’re choosing to embrace a new and hot [...]

Mark Cuban is right. The Internet is passe. He’s got a pretty insightful piece on his blog from a few days ago talking about how the Internet is recognized as the solution for everything these days, while he argues that its seen its potential, and that something better is surely on its way.
I think I’ve [...]

This happened to me recently (you’ll have to click to find out what I’m talking about). But instead of headaches and nausea, the smell induced nostalgia. I guess its just one of those things that should have grossed me out, but instead, it did something different. I opened up the package and the smell automatically brought [...]