y-intercept blog

I started writing up my proposal for the Open Source Real Time eXchange on the site y-intercept.com . I have to take Coco for a walk. I wil...

In recent posts, I've been ranting about abuses in the Stock Market. Truth be told. I prefer doing to ranting. IMHO, the problems in the...

Apparently one of the prime reasons that the market started allowing short selling of stock some 300 hundred years ago was "market effi...

People should be up in arms at Wall Street greed. The problem is that the current market is not being driven by long greed. The downturn in ...

On the post Shorts Say WooHoo! , I deep linked a graph from DeepCapture.com showing the role FtDs played in the final days of Washington Mut...

Today is National Hunting and Fishing Day . It is a day in which we celebrate and engage in the cultural activities of hunting and fishing....

DeepCapture has a good presentation of how Failure to Delivers destroy equity in this graph of the fall of WaMu . A Failure to Deliver show...

In the first presidential debate, Barack Obama did a great job framing the mortgage crisis as one of regulation v. deregulation. Republicans...

The pundits are wrong. I keep hearing people who frame the bailout as a case of evil investors taking unnecessary gambles, and that society ...

I am happy to finally see a few Republicans openly acting like Republicans and voicing loud opposition to the bailout plan. I wish they had ...