Comments on: Links 9/21/08

By: Hirsch

Hirsch — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:44:00 +0000

Testing how to comment on your excellent blog

Hirsch

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 19:39:00 +0000

Yves;
You’re a beacon during a very stormy time, thank you for your very intilligent analysis.

Stay the course.

By: donna

donna — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:16:00 +0000

With the other commenters, here — keep us informed. I am pissed as hell at this bailout at the moment. If we do this, I want those quants who saw this coming testifying, I want to know who told the quants to shut up, and I want the people who knew this was coming and let it happen anyway in jail. They don’t get to live on their yachts while we bail them out.

Mortgage business is cyclical, and the risks were obviously calculated based on normal distributions and didn’t consider the fat tail risk of a lot of these loans going down at once. Somebody knew this was Wrong, and somebody had to have told them to be quiet. I want those quants testifying, and their bosses locked up.

By: dearieme

dearieme — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:00:00 +0000

All strength to your arm, madam. Keep up the good work.

By: Richard Kline

Richard Kline — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 10:07:00 +0000

Hang in there, Yves; you are our window on a clearer view of the world. This coming week will be a wild one, so I hope we’re rested and ready. . . . Do you get _any_ sleep these days?? Best for now.

By: gsm_73

gsm_73 — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:43:00 +0000

Dear Yves:

In UAE (and Doha, Kuwait Muscat) We had markets rejoice today as the $700 bn plan got unveiled,
we had short selling in UAE; players part of it have been dissuaded from doing so.

I dont like the response of the markets arent we closing our eyes to impact on dollar atleast for GCC countries....

I am not finding any analysis of the plan. If you find some would post it on your site.
thanks a ton.

Like your site, I visit it daily.

regards:

gsmani@gmail.com