Thursday, February 18, 2010

Financial Darwin Awards, Courtesy of The Daily Reckoning

Nice slide show by our friends at The Daily Reckoning - informative, and entertaining!
The Daily Reckoning's Unofficial Unauthorized Financial Darwin Awards

And a little while back, we reviewed their latest book, Financial Reckoning Day Fallout.

3 comments:

  1. Anonymous1:53 PM

    Someone needs to correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Fed increase interest rates at the end of the Bear market rally in the 1930s?

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  2. Brett Owens2:02 PM

    I think you're right - here's a piece from Evans-Pritchard in '08 alluding to this http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/ambroseevans-pritchard/4502827/Will_Trichet_drive_the_world_over_a_cliff/

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  3. Anonymous8:09 PM

    Yes

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