I ‘ve been wanting to write about a number of things over the past few days, but Thanksgiving swept in and I’m just now beginning to see the light of the day after. First, that this Dubai situation is strange — strange how our core financial situation can be so tied to something on the [...]

I have just finished reading a quite amazing piece in Vanity Fair: “Wall Street’s Near Death Experience”, by Andrew Ross. (http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2009/11/too-big-to-fail-excerpt-200911) An astonishing piece if only half of it’s true and I suspect much more than half is correct. It chronicles in a very personal way what happened with the key players as the markets [...]