Tokyo MadHatter's Posts

  • Market Talk #4 – Blackmail on an Institutional Scale
    February 17th, 2009By Tokyo MadHatter
    Well, we’ve had an interesting couple of weeks. In my mind, the biggest event these past two weeks was definitely the admission that Bank of America got cold feet over the Merrill Lynch takeover and the chief executive had to effectively be blackmailed by Paulson and Bernanke to continue with the » Continue Reading
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  • Market Talk #3 – Does Davos Matter?
    February 13th, 2009By Tokyo MadHatter
    Stock markets continue to go down, the uber wealthy gather in Davos and populist sentiment turns against the media nominated heroes of the past decade. Nothing can equal the collective outrage poured on John Thain from Merrill Lynch for first asking for a huge bonus and then denying he had made » Continue Reading
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