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	<title>Comments on: Bill Ackman&#8217;s letter to the regulators in full, and his monoline model</title>
	<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/</link>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>by: hedgehog</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11774</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[great comment Sam..
It made me laugh despite the fact that when I went to a meeting I was on average 17% up on the day on short positions came back and found after all the monoline news etc the market was up and the banks had recovered - have got the feeling I know nothing !]]></description>
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		<title>by: Vigilant Investor &#187; Monline Insurers Fantasy Ratings: Ackman Letter</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11773</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[...] On that issue, William Ackmam of Pershing Square Capital (a short selling hedge fund) has made headlines today via several publicized letters written to the authorities (e.g. Insurance commissioners and the SEC) pointing out the fiction that is the ratings supplied to these insurers by the mainstream agencies — like S&P and Moody’s. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>by: Leverage This &#187; Blog Archive &#187; Bill Ackman - Open Source Model</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11767</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[[...] Here is Bill Ackman’s letter, courtesy of FT Alphaville - it is a majestically written letter, I suggest you read it (Bill, please contact us at editor@bankloanforum.com - we have a question for you. We will keep your response confidential). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>by: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11764</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[anyone know of a mirro site for the model?]]></description>
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		<title>by: grayder</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11763</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<guid>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11763</guid>
					<description><![CDATA[The harder I work the luckier I become.......Ackman deserves to make money. He has gone into a lot of detail here that others have not (including, it sounds like from the letter, MBIA and AMBAC)]]></description>
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		<title>by: Adri Truter</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11761</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Great!!!!!!! w disclosure!]]></description>
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		<title>by: MadJackMcMad</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11726</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It just finished running after 43 minutes and told me they owe twenty-four pence each.]]></description>
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		<title>by: Sam Jones</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/01/31/10612/monoline-flatline-bill-ackmans-letter-to-the-insurance-regulators-in-full-and-his-models/#comment-11707</link>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note also that you download Ackman's model at your own risk

The FT does not have "a total of eight cores sharing 2x6mb of L2 cache on a 1333MHz front-side bus with 4Gb 800MHz DDR2 ECC SDRAM." We have a word, 2.0 and lotus notes. 

I emailed the model to Paul and now it's touch and go whether there'll be a paper tomorrow.]]></description>
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