Think the subprime crisis was bad? The skyrocketing loan defaults and related corporate writedowns were just the first phase of a much wider housing crisis, fund manager Whitney Tilson and…
Day: December 15, 2008
Five Top Managers Are Buying -- Cautiously
Noticing a trend that we’ve picked up on in recent weeks, Fortune notes that several extreme value investors have begun to see good, safe buys in the current market. In…
Romney, Schmidt, Fiorina on The Crisis
David Gregory’s tenure on NBC’s “Meet The Press” got off to a particularly interesting start over the weekend, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, Google…
Turnaround Guru Calls for More Help for Mortgage Owners
John Bogle (“Help for Mortgage Holders Is What We Need”) isn’t the only influential voice saying that the government needs to focus more on mortgage owners if it wants to…
Institutional Ownership Driving Momentum?
Another investment idea that piggy backs off of Bespoke Investment Group’s great research. Bespoke broke down the S&P 500 into groups of 50 based on levels of institutional ownership, and…