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Ticking Time Bomb, May 2009: Fannie Mae Liabilities

MinAkkar20, you forgot to add Goldman to the Fed/Treasury "[Un]Holy Trinity".

Virtualization Out, Expense Management In

Virtualization does not guarantee lower costs: the labor and additional software required to migrate to, and manage, the virtualized environment is not trivial. In addition, in an outsourced environment the fee to the customer for ongoing management is usually "per image" not "per hardware box", further diluting any "spreadsheet" savings.

What the Hedge Funds' Bad September Could Mean for Markets

Don't give the SEC so much credit. Their naked shorting rules were toothless and never meant to be enforced. The only way they could temporarily stop the naked shorting was to stop ALL shorting. They are seriously bent by the industry they are supposed to regulate. Naked shorting of Goldman into oblivion would have been nothing less than schoolyard justice.

The Death of Market Fundamentalism

re "detached": Not to mention the rampant naked short selling condoned by a toothless and co-opted SEC.