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I graduated magna cum laude in International Business and Finance with training in valuation and modeling at the Investment Banking Institute in Manhattan while doing my internship in the Global Wealth Management division of a major financial services conglomerate. A candidate in the CFA... More
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  • Citi is a Dog - Go Long At Your Own Risk

    A fellow author at Seeking Alpha has ventured to recommend Citi as a great long term investment, ostensibly on the grounds that it is too important to fail and implicitly backed by the government, among other considerations of global scope and overall market share. To avoid the hazards of paraphrasing, you may access this article in its entirety here: 

    seekingalpha.com/article/145105-citigrou... 

    Meanwhile, the Office of the Controller of the Currency has published statistics as of Q4 2008 showing derivative exposure as a percentage of risk-adjusted assets - classifying the top banks that in their opinion are overexposed to default risk. Citi stands at a whopping 286%.  

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    Tags: C, PSY, HPF, HPI, MSFT, Citi, FASB, mark-to-market, fair value
    Jun 24 03:58 pm | Link | Comment!
  • Did the Japanese Try to Dump $135 BILLION in US Bonds on the Black Market?

    Last Friday morning, Treasuries rallied as the Japanese Minister of Finance Kaoru Yosano went on the public record to say that his faith in US Treasuries and America’s ‘strong dollar policy’ was ‘unshakeable’.

     

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    Tags: Italian Incident Italy Switzerland
    Jun 15 04:11 pm | Link | 19 Comments
  • Why a Japanese -Style Recovery Model Can't Happen in the US

    Prominent economists have stepped forward to allay inflationary fears amidst rising treasury yields, a falling dollar, and growing concerns over the viability of the deeply embedded assumption that global aggregate demand for US debt is fundamentally inelastic. 

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    Jun 11 01:13 pm | Link | Comment!
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