Category Archives: Notices

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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. […]

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I am in beautiful Vancouver Washington to speak at the Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference. My posts will be a bit light until I am back in New York (very late Tuesday, which effectively means Wednesday).

I commented last week on the rising lack of civility and accompanying decline in the quality of comments. I do not know if these are independent developments or not. I cannot control for the latter, but the former is disturbing and serves to drive out good observations. In particular, I find ad hominem attacks particularly […]