Dear Patient Readers, We are still debugging the WordPress version of the site. It was taken offline by our webhost for about an hour, much to our consternation. I also learned that the blog was set up to filter spam comments. It seems to be overly zealous in doing so, in that the number tagged […]
Read more...We are transitioning this site from Blogger to WordPress (and a new hosting service) today. For readers there should be no changes required to continue reading us via the website, email or newsfeed. However anyone posting comments or articles (i.e. guest bloggers) will notice a few changes to the editor interface. We expect problems so […]
Read more...We will be transitioning this site from Blogger to WordPress (and a new hosting service) this evening. The ability to leave comments will be disabled for approximately an hour until the transfer is complete. There may be up to a 20 minute service outage when the actual switch happens. For readers there should be no […]
Read more...Dear patient readers, Loyalists may have noticed that I am still not back up to my old level of posts. That is because I still have heavy duty book responsibilities. I now know why Spaulding Grey called one of his books “the monster in the box” (in the box in those days because manuscripts were […]
Read more...Dear readers, There are some points in the book I need to nail down re CDOs (particularly mezz CDOs, circa 2006 and 2007) and the various relative value plays major banks and hedge funds were engaging in around that time. I may also have some questions re CLOs, to the extent that hedge funds were […]
Read more...A bit of advice: do not try to do an ambitious book on a compressed schedule. If I didn’t have quite a few people helping on important aspects, it would be impossible, but even so, this take a ton of persistent effort. To wit: all the chapters are in to the editor, I believe I […]
Read more...Absent major unexpected developments, the book is due to be published March 2, 2010, or 3/2/10, which strikes me as auspicious. I hate the need for self promotion, and I hope reader will take this sort of thing in stride. But if I don’t do it, only my publisher will. Actually, Palgrave is treating this […]
Read more...I am provisionally opening comments back up. Regulars may recall that I went to restricting them to people who had registered. Unfortunately, Blogger limits that to Open ID or people with Blogger accounts. I had hoped to be switched over to WordPress an eternity ago, which allows for much more user friendly ways of registering, […]
Read more...Any takers? Some smart publisher types have noticed our reviews and are sending blurbs. If interested, ping me at yves@nakedcapitalism.com with your coordinates and a bit about your background. Thanks! The first is A COLOSSAL FAILURE OF COMMON SENSE: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers by former Lehman VP Lawrence G McDonald. […]
Read more...Dear readers, I am traveling from Budapest to NYC today, which meant by the time I am operational I will probably be sufficiently travel-addled so as not to be much use on the blogging front. Barring mishap, I expect to be back to a semblance of normalcy Monday. Thanks for your patience.
Read more...Dear Readers, As you may know from my occasional grumbles of the last week or so, I am currently abroad and bandwidth-impaired, yet trying to keep the blog and book moving forward. I wondered therefore if you might be able to provide me with some leads on a topic I would like to discuss: the […]
Read more...Dear readers, I am traveling this evening and will be overseas for the next two weeks. I am still working but will have a satellite connection, and thus may not be posting at quite my normal level of frequency. I also hope you do not mind if some of my posts are more terse than […]
Read more...Dear readers, I have the high class problem for you and me that this blog is sufficiently popular that it is straining the capacity of the new hosting environment (a database issue of some sort). There are ways to fix this, but temporarily I have gone back to Blogger, and will probably be back on […]
Read more...The blog will be switched from Blogger to WordPress starting at 8:00 PM this evening. It should be on WordPress by 10:00 PM. There will be NO change in address or RSS feeds. There may, however, be an interruption in your ability to leave comments, as the new address related to the www.nakedcapitalism.com domain name […]
Read more...Given that we are (hopefully) going into a time of year when the news will continue to be less than gut-wrenching, and therefore provide less ready grist for blogging, I wondered if any readers might enjoy taking a hand at a book review. It can take either the “what is this book about and do […]
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