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12 Tips on Live Blogging & Content Marketing at SXSWi

So here I sit in the DFW airport hanging out with David Berkowitz and Joe Morin waiting for my connection to Austin. What better way to spend that 45 min than to write a helpful blog post? A big part of my “mission” for SXSXi is to create content after all. I have several other [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Lee Odden - March 13, 2010 at 3:10 am

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Net shorts again a record in the euro

According to the CFTC data for the week ended Tuesday, net shorts again went to a record high in the euro after last week’s modest drop. Net shorts in the pound fell a touch from last week’s record high. In contrast, net longs in the Canadian $ rose by 60% to the most since Nov [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Peter Boockvar - March 12, 2010 at 10:35 pm

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Lehman Brothers, the Next Enron?

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 10:34 pm

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Global House Prices May Have Further to Fall, but U.S. Looking Better

House prices across the globe still have room to fall, but the U.S. may be in better shape than other developed nations, according to an International Monetary Fund research article.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by WSJ.com: Real Time Economics - at 10:00 pm

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Senator Kaufman: Reform That Will Prevent The Next Financial Crisis

Your weekend reading assignment is this terrific long form piece by Senator Ted Kaufman, titled Wall Street Reform That Will Prevent The Next Financial Crisis. I do not know anything about him other than to say that he understands the recent crisis and is proposing reasonable fixes. The Senator wants to restore Glass-Steagall, and repeal the Commodity [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 9:30 pm

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Also On the Fed Short List: One Consumer Advocate, One Social Security Expert

The Obama administration is considering a Maryland regulator awarded "Consumer Advocate of the Year" and a Massachusetts economics professor known for his Social Security expertise to join Janet Yellen as nominees to the Federal Reserve Board.

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by WSJ.com: Real Time Economics - at 9:16 pm

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Members of Fed’s Consumer Council Want Fed Out of Consumer Regulation

In 1976, the Federal Reserve established its Consumer Advisory Council at the direction of Congress to advise the central bank on its responsibilities tied to consumer issues. But some members of the council, even as they plan for their next meeting later this month, don't seem to think very highly of the Fed on this front.

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Blinder: Lack of Good Financial Reform Is a ‘Tragedy’

Former Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Alan Blinder said Friday he fears Congress will fail to act to revamp the financial regulatory system, calling it a "tragedy."

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by WSJ.com: Real Time Economics - at 6:50 pm

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Charlie Gasparino Owes David Einhorn (and me) an Apology

In the early days pre-meltdown, there were a handful of skeptics pointing to problems at firms like AIG, Fannie Mae, Bear Stearns and most especially Lehman Brothers. It was not the media or the analyst community that identified the frauds, but the short sellers. In this sad tale of criminality and corruption, the shorts were the [...]

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Be the first to comment - What do you think?  Posted by Barry Ritholtz - at 6:30 pm

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Hintz Calls Lehman’s Accounting Actions `Shenanigans’

BLOOMBERG TV: Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., talks with Bloomberg’s Erik Schatzker about a report on the failure of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., which concluded the company used off-balance-sheet transactions to understate its leverage in late 2007 and 2008, deceiving shareholders about its ability to withstand losses. On whether Dick [...]

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