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85 ArticlesCrisis 2008

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Bangalore Pink Slips and Resilient People

Meltdown impact: It was over in 5 minutes Sandeep Jadhav, a 27-year-old professional in India’s outsourcing industry, had only seen the good times. He worked ...

World Recession Is Here

From Stratfor’s Geopolitical Diary (Subscribe only) The world, at least by our reckoning, is now officially in recession. The downturn has three strands. ...

The Starbucks Theory

Says Daniel Gross, in Slate: …I propose the Starbucks theory of international economics. The higher the concentration of expensive, nautically themed, ...

Citi laying of 50,000?

According to CNBC: Citigroup plans to announce a writedown of as much as $24 billion and layoffs that could total as much as 24,000 due to subprime and ...

Michael Lewis calls the End

A fantastic article by Michael Lewis called “The End“, on That’s when Eisman finally got it. Here he’d been making these side bets with Goldman ...

ABX and CMBX: Meltdown

As I’d mentioned in a post one week ago, the ABX indices were hitting lows. Today I checked again, and every single price is at all time lows. The ABX ...

Why aren't we seeing fuel price cuts?

Political and Economic nightmare: World going into recession, everyone’s worried about serious asset price deflation, Auto and Steel companies are ...

A gripping story about Dick Fuld and Lehman Brothers (Bloomberg): The end came after months of frantic activity to find a solution — reaching out to, ...

GM At An Inflexion Point, CDS isn’t so bad

Bloomberg: General Motors Says It May Run Out of Operating Cash This Year General Motors Corp., seeking U.S. aid to avoid collapse, said it may not have enough ...

Markit ABX indices still at or near all time lows

Increasing liquidity (TED spread at 2!) hasn’t helped subprime prices it seems. The Markit ABX prices, for 07-2 AAA (The AAA tranche of home equity ABS ...