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Mehtafiscal
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occasional articles, brief essays, comments, links, etc on financial topics
Recent Posts
It’s a Cohmad Mad Mad World!
Following Friday’s announcement by the trustee of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities that Madoff apparently hadn’t executed a single trade on behalf of his investment customers for at least 13 years, the operations of Cohmad Securities Corp....
Loyalty on the Slopes: Madoff Goes Skiing in 2004
Bernard Madoff may have wiped out the life savings and shattered the confidence and trust of thousands of investors around the world, but Madoff could be a loyal friend and patron. Witness his January 2004 boondoggle to Zermatt, Switzerland, accompan...
The End of a Sure Thing: Madoff’s Long Bet
The Madoff affair has been unfolding for just over a week, yet the legacy of what is now being learned is likely to resonate long into the future for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. regulatory infrastructure, legions of individual in...
Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis
From Mint comes this visualization of the financial crisis: Source: Mint A Visual Guide to the Financial Crisis http://blog.mint.com/blog/finance-core/a-visual-guide-to-the-financial-crisis/ By WallStats.com on 11/13/08 The chart above goes through...
The High Church of Finance
Running an errand the other day, I did a double-take on Park Avenue in the east fifties. The New York Stock Exchange’s familiar lantern-blue floor column gleamed off a poster on Park and 51st, at St. Bartholomew’s Church. I crossed the street. Th...

