This week on FT Alphaville,
- Short UK mortgage banks, long Manhattan’s Upper East Side – welcome to the TR-3
- But the real HBOS villian was long gone
- A invitation to chat over beer..
- became a brawl by the end of the week
- Dame damned?
- The British property market crash, LIVE!
- Avoiding reality in ratings
- Oh no! “SEC Announces ’21st Century Disclosure’ Initiative to Fundamentally Rethink the Way Companies Report and Investors Acquire Information”
- Anatole Kaletsky gave us four ways to make money
- Barclays showed us how to raise money and reclassify assets
- Turned out, money actually grows on trees
- Then equities and credit fell out of bed (again)
- After Goldman attacked Citi, and then Citi attacked Barclays…
- Leaving Albert Edwards went all “y-shaped”
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