July 30, 2010

Moral Hazards, Too Small to Fail, Mark-to-Market, Bernanke and Obama, P2P Lending

p2p lending

When Lenders and Investors Objectives Aren't Aligned The Big Picture does a nice summary of how disconnects between lender and investor alignments can create moral hazard on the scale of mortgage implosion and financial market meltdown. Overstructuring risk mitigation combined with dangerously low interest rates makes credit feel like cash, debt like wealth. And, here we are... Seth Godin Reminds Us There is "Too Small to Fail" A great little post about the value of being small. It doesn't imply … [Read more...]

Weekend Notes

baseball economy

Weekend Read File: Will economic collapse hurt contracts for baseball players? Time to Clean Up After the Party An Example of Economics at Work Bernanke is Fighting the Last War Churchill's Dictum and Henry Paulson PIMCO's Gross sees market confidence restored 'in weeks' on bank rescue (this guy is incredible-sarcasm in voice) Have we learned the right lessons from the Great Depression? Mark Cuban helping to watchdog our tax dollars Sequoia tells portfolio companies to hunker down (presentation … [Read more...]

Ben Bernanke Talks to New York Economic Club

ben bernanke speech analysis

It is mostly about FINANCIAL MARKETS: Bernanke Themes: Talk about unique nature of the financial market crisis Recent history recapped, as only an economic historian could More about TARP Federal Reserve's role in all this, relative to Treasury and FDIC Stabilization confidence talk Oops, a little talk about inflation again... Global coordination is still important Full Text of Bernanke's address to New York Economic Club. (word analysis: wordle.net) … [Read more...]