Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon 1/6/2012

01:05 : Should the SEC Try to Boost the IPO Market? - Felix Salmon submits: Clare Baldwin and Sarah Lynch are unambiguous: “As U.S. regulators review rules on shares issued by private companies,” they write, “they must not make it too easy for hot Internet companies such as Facebook or ...

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Felix Salmon 12/9/2011

17:57 : The multi-trillion Euro avalanche - Two bloggers diametrically opposed: would a bailout save the euro zone or destroy it? Watch Business Insider's Simone Foxman take on Reuters' own Felix Salmon.

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Felix Salmon 12/6/2011

13:29 : One of the reasons why Apple's ([[AAPL]] -0.5%) share price is cheap is ... - One of the reasons why Apple's (AAPL -0.5%) share price is cheap is because it's a megacap, Felix Salmon writes, and "the entire market for megacaps has been utterly miserable for the past decade." It therefore stands to reason that ...

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Felix Salmon 12/1/2011

18:44 : Pumping dollars into Europe may bolster confidence for a bit, but will ... - Pumping dollars into Europe may bolster confidence for a bit, but will fizzle unless Europe's policymakers and the ECB act more forcefully to shore up the eurozone's overly indebted governments, FT writes. Felix Salmon|Felix ...

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16:24 : Artist rips into the financial crisis - What do the financial crisis and art have in common' William Powhida. Hear the artist describe his work to Reuters' Felix Salmon and Newsweek's Blake Gopnik.

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Felix Salmon 11/29/2011

15:57 : Should we ship U.S. bank regulators to Helsinki? - Why are U.S. bank regulators so terrible at ... regulating? Authors Nick Dunbar tells Felix Salmon why it is so hard to regulate the financial system, especially now.

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Felix Salmon 11/11/2011

13:26 : Felix Salmon digests the brutal Q3 performance of the Hawaii Employees' ... - Felix Salmon digests the brutal Q3 performance of the Hawaii Employees' Retirement System, down 11.2%, and finds it symptomatic of how volatility and risk-taking hurts pension plans. Not only do managers underperform ...

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Felix Salmon 11/4/2011

16:15 : Felix Salmon on Jon Corzine's resignation: 'I'm sure you're sad - that ... - Felix Salmon on Jon Corzine's resignation: "I'm sure you're sad - that often happens, when you become the living embodiment of the destructive greed of the 1% and a hate figure for millions. But are you sorry?... Chances are, Corzine ...

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Felix Salmon 10/12/2011

20:51 : Felix TV: The Gawker Showdown - Felix Salmon takes us inside an exclusive party at Gawker Headquarters where Gawker Media Network founder Nick Denton pays up after betting his sites' pageviews would rebound after a controversial redesign in February 2011.

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Felix Salmon 10/11/2011

10:48 : Reuters blogger: High unemployment will last a long time - Felix Salmon, the economics writer for Reuters, writes a column in the wake of last week’s jobs report in which he says that high unemployment is probably here to stay — and that government can’t do much to change that. It’s always ...

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Felix Salmon 10/8/2011

00:38 : Should the SEC Try to Boost the IPO Market? - Felix Salmon submits: Clare Baldwin and Sarah Lynch are unambiguous: “As U.S. regulators review rules on shares issued by private companies,” they write, “they must not make it too easy for hot Internet companies such as Facebook or ...

Source : seekingalpha-com

Felix Salmon 9/15/2011

13:19 : Lessons with Legos: the EU crisis - The Euro zone's financial crisis is a mess and it does not appear to be remedied anytime soon. Reuters finance blogger, Felix Salmon, explains the complex nature of the Euro zone with simple Legos.

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Felix Salmon 9/13/2011

18:00 : But Felix Salmon says municipalities' cost of funds wouldn't rise much ... - But Felix Salmon says municipalities' cost of funds wouldn't rise much if tax deductibility was curbed via Obama's jobs plan: "20 basis points' 30? 40? We're not talking here about the kind of numbers which change the economics of ...

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Felix Salmon 9/2/2011

13:53 : FHFA lawsuits against big banks mitigates against any mortgage settlement - FHFA lawsuits against big banks mitigates against any mortgage settlement from happening, Felix Salmon writes. The banks won't agree to anything unless they get immunity from securitization-related suits, and the government - a plaintiff ...

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Felix Salmon 8/10/2011

11:24 : Volatility Is Coming, Look Busy: Investors Ignore Warnings, Go On Trading ... - Despite hordes of financial advisors ? Vanguard founder Jack Bogle among them ? cautioning investors to stay calm, the stock market has seen heavy trading this week, taking investors along for a rollercoaster ride of reaction. After dropping over 500 ...

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07:39 : Felix Salmon thinks there's a reason S&P, and not Moody's, was first to ... - Felix Salmon thinks there's a reason S&P, and not Moody's, was first to downgrade the U.S: While Moody's ratings estimate the potential for losses on debt investments, S&P only tries to gauge the probability of default. And while the ...

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Felix Salmon 7/22/2011

12:31 : The horrifying AAA debt chart - Reuters' blogger Felix Salmon explains the risks of believing that triple-A-rated bonds are risk-free in a world where more than half of all bonds are considered risk-free and the value of issued debt reaches $7 trillion per year.

Source : reuters-com

Felix Salmon 7/20/2011

12:44 : Action hero? No! - July 20 - You might like action heroes in movies, but here is why you don't want an action hero managing your money. Reuters' blogger Felix Salmon talks with Josh Brown about the downside of "action bias."

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Felix Salmon 7/10/2011

00:20 : Should the SEC Try to Boost the IPO Market? - Felix Salmon submits: Clare Baldwin and Sarah Lynch are unambiguous: “As U.S. regulators review rules on shares issued by private companies,” they write, “they must not make it too easy for hot Internet companies such as Facebook or ...

Source : seekingalpha-com

Felix Salmon 7/6/2011

13:28 : A portfolio of high-dividend stocks may seem like an enticing, low-risk ... - A portfolio of high-dividend stocks may seem like an enticing, low-risk alternative to bonds, but don't be fooled, Felix Salmon writes; barring a wave of defaults, bonds remain a safer bet. But he notes one good thing about holding ...

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Felix Salmon 6/15/2011

16:56 : Felix Salmon ponders the state of Wall Street nearly three years after ... - Felix Salmon ponders the state of Wall Street nearly three years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers: “The ingredients that spelled disaster were simple: bigness, interconnectedness, ...

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Felix Salmon 6/8/2011

15:26 : Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn From the NFL - Roger Martin, Sebastian Mallaby, Chrystia Freeland and Felix Salmon discuss critically important, but largely overlooked business practices. Unlike NFL players, business leaders have been allowed to continue betting on their own game. ...

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Felix Salmon 5/27/2011

18:12 : The Fed's secret lending program which seems to have been aimed mostly ... - The Fed's secret lending program which seems to have been aimed mostly at European banks shows we still have a lot to learn about the Fed's actions in the midst of the financial crisis. Felix Salmon asks: Why was the program set up? ...

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Felix Salmon 4/18/2011

13:27 : Felix Salmon doubts that the S&P would really pull the trigger and lower ... - Felix Salmon doubts that the S&P would really pull the trigger and lower the U.S. credit rating: "A U.S. downgrade would probably mean that just about everything else in the U.S. which is rated AAA... would also get downgraded... A ...

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Felix Salmon 4/11/2011

18:32 : Should the SEC Try to Boost the IPO Market? - Felix Salmon submits: Clare Baldwin and Sarah Lynch are unambiguous: “As U.S. regulators review rules on shares issued by private companies,” they write, “they must not make it too easy for hot Internet companies such as Facebook or ...

Source : seekingalpha-com

Felix Salmon 4/7/2011

03:56 : How the Pros See the Fixed-Income Market - Felix Salmon submits: Every year, the Loomis Sayles PR team drags its top fund managers down to New York for lunch with the wonkier end of the financial-journalism spectrum: there’s lots of talk of curve-flatteners in a rising interest-rate ...

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Felix Salmon 4/5/2011

12:28 : The Unexpected T-Bill Rally - Felix Salmon submits: With time rapidly running out before the debt ceiling is reached, and doom-mongering rampant about the disastrous possible consequences of the US Treasury being unable to repay its debts, just look what’s happened ...

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Felix Salmon 4/4/2011

13:01 : Why Private Equity Markets Are on the Rise Now - Felix Salmon submits: I got some predictably super-smart reactions to my questions about private equity markets at the Kauffman Bloggers Forum today.Matt Yglesias said he couldn’t see what the fuss was all about: the Securities ...

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Felix Salmon 4/1/2011

07:52 : Why Are Private Markets Booming Now? - Felix Salmon submits: I’m spending today at the Kauffman Foundation’s Economics Bloggers Forum in Kansas City. A dozen bloggers are giving short presentations, and I’m flattered to be one of them, along with the likes of Tyler Cowen, ...

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Felix Salmon 3/31/2011

02:06 : Greenspan Squanders His Final Reserve of Credibility - Felix Salmon submits: Thank you, internet: Henry Farrell and his commenters have all the snark so desperately required in response to Alan Greenspan’s ludicrous op-ed in the FT. And they’re not alone: as Alex Eichler notes, “everyone ...

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