Broad Oak Magazine

"Wall Street’s biggest banks squeezed out a victory this week when the House narrowly approved a spending bill with provisions that wo...

"... total money and credit are contracting, [...] the world of derivatives and leverage is contracting despite our government’s best e...

Michael Panzner's prescient book "Financial Armageddon" listed four major threats to the economy: debt, retirement and health...

J. S. Kim (htp: Jesse) considers the $700 trillion derivatives market (worth maybe 23 times all the stockmarkets in the world), and notes t...

Denninger's question: With the $7 trillion dollars we have committed we could have literally given every homeowner with a mortgage a fif...

This blog looks at the implications of failed investment bank Lehman's call on their "insurance" in the form of derivatives co...

You could be forgiven for thinking that financial bloggers are hysterical and fantasy-ridden, far more so than the middlebrow newspapers tha...

The problem with looming economic disaster is that you look out the window and since what you see is normal, you wonder what that mad Cassan...

The world's economy is now like a huge gambling table, and the players collectively are betting several times the value of their assets...

John Carney, in DealBreaker.com today , discusses Warren Buffett's recent involvement in derivatives, notwithstanding his previous publi...

The Market Oracle yesterday and Gold Seek today both feature an article by Michael Kosares from his own site ( USA Gold ) on why he thinks ...

Richard Bookstaber's interview on Financial Sense (21 July - audio file) was interesting. He discussed the derivatives market (which is...

Bob Hoye, in Prudent Bear (yesterday), discusses " the Unholy Trinity of central banking, derivatives and artificial rating of credit ...

The Contrarian Investors' Journal concludes its series on exploiting the possibility of a crash, by suggesting a series of short-term b...

A very interesting article today in The Daily Reckoning Australia by Nassim Taleb, on asymmetric outcomes. As the Daily Reckoning put it on...

The Contrarian Investor's Journal continues its series on crash preparation. Part 1 showed how you could lose your shirt on shorts; now...

Michael Panzner's view on the dangers of derivatives is confirmed in a new book by Richard Bookstaber , a senior insider in that world. ...

Michael Panzner continues to warn of a possible financial earthquake. His 17 May article in Seeking Alpha (see my link list) quotes the NY ...