An Ounce of Prevention, SEC Edition
Zachary Goldfarb reports in today's Washington Post about the SEC's efforts to reform its enforcement image. There are plenty of examples given that illustrate how far the SEC has to go, and I am not...
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Bond Vigilantes Are Now Deficit Cheerleaders
My column from this morning's Roll Call is about Wall Street's clearly changing opinion about the federal deficit and national debt. I wonder why CNBC hasn't discussed this yet.Bond Vigilantes Are Now...
View ArticleWall Street Hasn't Been Telling Us The Truth On The Debt Ceiling
For weeks, Wall Street has been saying that it was convinced there would be a deal on the debt ceiling in Washington and wasn't at all concerned about the possibility that nothing would get done by the...
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Wall Street Doesn't Seem To Be Expecting Much From The Not-So-Super Committee
One of the factors that has been leading some to predict that the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (aka, the super committee) will come up with a deficit reduction plan of its own is the...
View ArticleNever Underestimate Wall Street's Ability To Overestimate Washington
This is a true but hard-to-believe story.Last October, when I was talking one-on-one with a number of hedge funds and other Wall Street firms about what the anything-but-super committee was likely to...
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Bond Market Vigilantes Are The U.S. Economy's Big Foot
My column from today's Roll Call explains why and how Wall Street is again...or, rather, still...demanding a higher rather than a lower federal deficit and that the bond market vigilantes that legend...
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Wall Street CEOs Hoping We Don't Get The Fiscal Cliff Joke
My column from today's Roll Call explains why the letter about avoiding the fiscal cliff sent last week by the CEOs of many of the biggest names on Wall Street to Congress and the White House was...
View ArticleCollender Podcast: "The Fiscal Cliff Joke Is On Us"
My latest podcast -- the third in my new weekly series -- is the stage and screen version of my latest reading of the fiscal cliff tea leaves.You can find the podcast here.
View ArticleIs Wall Street Really This Clueless About The Fiscal Cliff?
The Dow Jones Industrials Average was in negative territory on Friday morning when congressional leaders emerged from their first fiscal cliff meeting at the White House. At that point the Dow was down...
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Fiscal Cliff Showing Many GOP Budget Beliefs To Be Myths
My column from today's Roll Call explains how the debate over the fiscal cliff is proving many of the (largely GOP-driven) beliefs that have dominated the federal budget debate for the past decade are...
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