• 25 Oct 2010 at 6:15 PM

Write-Offs: 10.25.10

$$$ BofA: Foreclosure Sales ‘Accurate,’ Moratorium Stands [CNBC]

$$$ Paul Krugman: “Is it really possible that the CNBC-watching crowd doesn’t understand that right now a weak dollar is good for America?” [NYT]

$$$ Todd Combs, the leading contender to manage Berkshire’s billions [Fortune]

$$$ AIG says Benmosche has cancer [MarketWatch]

$$$ “Our hope is that [the November 13-14 tournament] will be a real coming out party for the league,” says Alex Benepe—one of the sport’s founders and president of the newly formed nonprofit International Quidditch Association.

$$$ Finance Pros More Confident This Quarter [FINS]

$$$ Goldman’s mortgage bets bite back hard [Crain's]

$$$ 14 Things from Back to the Future II That Actually Came True, and 4 That Haven’t…Yet [Gawker]

$$$ Goldman Sachs employee bets colleagues he can finish a triathlon (2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike, 26.2 mile run) without training (according to his Facebook update today, he did finish, in 15.5 hours) [WSJ]

Comments (4)

  1. Posted by youpig | October 26, 2010 at 12:32 AM

    There’s no reason for him to criticize China’s Yuan.He’s hypocrite!

  2. Posted by Lewis Winthorpe III | October 26, 2010 at 12:46 AM

    Just when I thought I couldn’t possibly dislike Krugman more, he stabs me in the heart.

  3. Posted by Guestorama | October 26, 2010 at 12:51 AM

    Thoughts on the hydrodynamics of a gold-plated scrot?

    Personally I suspect that while it does add a nontrivial amount of weight, the costs are more than compensated for by the additional counterbalance to wave action.

  4. Posted by Guest | October 26, 2010 at 2:13 AM

    Re: Krugman’s chart – Was there no data available after 1937?

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