Entries tagged "Felix Salmon"

Nationalization, resolution and TBTF

Felix Salmon has sparked a renewed discussion among the blogs with his recantation of his position from last year that the government should have nationalized the banks.

Disco-ing to 'The Greenback Effect'

Warren Buffett's New York Times op-ed 'The Greenback Effect' says the economy could return to the days of disco and we could be singing, 'Sad Songs.'

Debating the blogging use of free and paid

The debate over Matt Taibbi's Rolling Stone article has turned away from its provocative conspiracy theory about Goldman Sachs and now centers on how to link to the story.

Bankslaughter won't work

The Guardian's Paul Collier has offered up a solution to deter bankers from risky behavior: jail.

More on the accessibility question

The dialogue about a journalist's responsibilities to the audience continues.

Why lenders are extending maturities

CLOs lenders are extending maturities of the loans without limit for higher fees.

The challenges of communicating the crisis

Are finance writers and bloggers often willfully obscure?

Goldman Sachs vs. Rolling Stone

The drama rages on: Goldman Sachs Group versus Rolling Stone's contributing editor Matt Taibbi.

CRA boogeyman returns

Fingers are pointing at the Community Reinvestment Act as the main culprit for the credit crisis, even though this tired meme has been debunked over and over again.

Friedman and Andrews play the clueless defense

New York Times journalists try to explain away behavior for which they recently came under fire.

Michael Lewis on Warren Buffett

Lewis suggests Alice Schroeder's new biography of Warren Buffett is too long, too windy and too reverential. But he admits it's highly readable and full of revelatory personal details.

A GM bankruptcy would be no easy fix

Felix Salmon paints an accurate picture of the woes facing General Motors Corp. in a blog post for Portfolio.com. But his suggested remedy, a GM bankruptcy filing with a Chevy spinoff to shareholders, seems needlessly complicated and in fact might do little to solve what ails the automaker....

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