Comments on: Fix What’s Broken http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/ Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:00:47 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Pat G. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187763 Pat G. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 01:08:17 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187763 I think you should have been more explicit about how you really felt. lol Good work... And thanks for vociferating for all us taxpayers!! I think you should have been more explicit about how you really felt. lol Good work… And thanks for vociferating for all us taxpayers!!

]]> By: deanscamaro http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187746 deanscamaro Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:48:58 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187746 Good interview and good points. I'm still wading through your book (about half way). It sits right next to the throne, so I don't get to it frequently, but I find I can concentrate pretty well. Ha! Ha! Good interview and good points. I’m still wading through your book (about half way). It sits right next to the throne, so I don’t get to it frequently, but I find I can concentrate pretty well. Ha! Ha!

]]> By: aitrader http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187730 aitrader Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:13:14 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187730 So <i>that's</i> what a swelled head looks like. :-) So that’s what a swelled head looks like.

:-)

]]> By: willid3 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187728 willid3 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:55:07 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187728 and a NIMBY view http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062701630.htm and a NIMBY view
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/27/AR2009062701630.htm

]]> By: willid3 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187727 willid3 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:53:56 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187727 a British point fo view http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/28/keegan-economics-recovery-recession a British point fo view

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jun/28/keegan-economics-recovery-recession

]]> By: willid3 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187722 willid3 Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:17:32 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187722 maybe we need to make regulations less flexible. as put forth here http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1907147,00.html since maybe we had enough regulations that weren't enforced because the regulators wouldn't. we need more regulations to address things not already done. we just need to make it less flexible so regulators have to do their job. maybe we need to make regulations less flexible. as put forth here

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1907147,00.html

since maybe we had enough regulations that weren’t enforced because the regulators wouldn’t. we need more regulations to address things not already done. we just need to make it less flexible so regulators have to do their job.

]]> By: Drewbie http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187721 Drewbie Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:57:43 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187721 "These are A-rated banks that stick to their knitting. They lend money to people who can’t afford to repay it" Say what? ~~~ <strong>BR</strong>: Typo “These are A-rated banks that stick to their knitting. They lend money to people who can’t afford to repay it”

Say what?

~~~

BR: Typo

]]> By: super_trooper http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187715 super_trooper Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:15:50 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187715 "So when the unveiling of the Obama Administration’s regulatory reform proposals left me asking, “Is that all there is?” I immediately put in a call to Barry." You could as well have called Karl Marx in his grave. Anyone with the slightest hint of intellect would have issues with the proposed regulatory reform. “So when the unveiling of the Obama Administration’s regulatory reform proposals left me asking, “Is that all there is?” I immediately put in a call to Barry.”

You could as well have called Karl Marx in his grave. Anyone with the slightest hint of intellect would have issues with the proposed regulatory reform.

]]> By: Mike in Nola http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187713 Mike in Nola Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:06:04 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187713 Barry: Nice interview. Somehow, I hadn't caught why the mutual funds hadn't done the corporate governance they were entitled to do. Your answer makes perfect sense. Not to detract from the fact that you are now a big-time author. When I saw the name on the publication, it reminded my of a remarkable interview you r reprinted last year here: http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/053008_Welling_Edwards-Montier_REPRINT.pdf It was like a roadmap of the past year. Those guys were amazingly accurate across the board, on the green shoots (which hadn't yet been named), the Fed's lack of power to control things, lack of decoupling, how the exportering countries would get clobbered (though many are still in denial about China), about the rally in the dollar, oil, and how cost cutting by companies to shore up profits would lead to a collapse in demand because of unemployment. Do you have any new info from those two? Barry:

Nice interview. Somehow, I hadn’t caught why the mutual funds hadn’t done the corporate governance they were entitled to do. Your answer makes perfect sense.

Not to detract from the fact that you are now a big-time author. When I saw the name on the publication, it reminded my of a remarkable interview you r reprinted last year here:
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/files/053008_Welling_Edwards-Montier_REPRINT.pdf

It was like a roadmap of the past year. Those guys were amazingly accurate across the board, on the green shoots (which hadn’t yet been named), the Fed’s lack of power to control things, lack of decoupling, how the exportering countries would get clobbered (though many are still in denial about China), about the rally in the dollar, oil, and how cost cutting by companies to shore up profits would lead to a collapse in demand because of unemployment.

Do you have any new info from those two?

]]> By: Grahame Grieve http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/06/fix-what%e2%80%99s-broken/comment-page-1/#comment-187702 Grahame Grieve Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:40:25 +0000 http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/?p=30310#comment-187702 Have you any comment on Matt Taibbi's latest article about Goldman-Sachs and the way they created the bubbles? And I tried to buy Bailout Nation in several different airports on Friday, but they were all sold out. Where can I get it in Australia? Have you any comment on Matt Taibbi’s latest article about Goldman-Sachs and the way they created the bubbles?

And I tried to buy Bailout Nation in several different airports on Friday, but they were all sold out. Where can I get it in Australia?

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