Bronte Capital

I am a volunteer surf lifesaver at Bronte Beach .  I used to be at North Bondi (one of the softest but most crowded Sydney beaches) but mov...

I used to think that if the government only made the GSE obligations full faith and credit (FFC) obligations the remaining problems in the c...

Brad Delong thinks that the failure of Citigroup is about “risk premium” .  I think it is about trust – and I guess in some sense these are...

I had never heard of Schulman until today – but then Footnoted led me to  a proxy disclosure.  I won’t adorn this: During fiscal 2008, the...

The consensus is that the Citigroup bailout was bad - see Mark Thoma . I am going to differ here.  The bailout was well designed... except 1...

Brad DeLong asks a question which seems obvious enough to me – but seems to elude him.   Le Citi Toujours Dormer... Why oh why can't we ...

It appears that a Latvian academic was detained by the secret police for spreading rumours about the possible devaluation of the Latvian cu...

The most repeated argument against my line that Sheila Bair erred badly when gifting Wachovia to Citigroup is that Wells could only make the...

It looks more and more like Citigroup is going to the Federal Government for help (something that neither Washington Mutual nor Wachovia did...

Sheila Bair is doing a fine job at one thing – modifying mortgage terms in the mortgages she has taken over – particularly those at Indy Mac...