“The problem to date has been that those that have been laid off have been sitting on their couches because they do not want to take a downgrade in pay. They are not going back to work and the longer you are out of work, the more difficult it is to get a new job. My advice to them is take what you can get. It is very hard to transfer skills from a high-paying job…so recalibrate your expectations." [BloombergTV]
Meredith Whitney Suggests Morgan Stanley Start Working On Its Craiglist Ad
The way Whitney sees it, some kind of sugar daddy or "rich uncle" setup is Morgan Stanley's only hope for survival going forward. ...in the wake of a disappointing second-quarter report. Meredith Whitney, of her own Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, said there was little to “chat about” given the particularly weak 4% return on equity Morgan Stanley sported. “It can’t be much fun to be a shareholder of Morgan Stanley, and, things got a lot worse this past June when Moody’s downgraded the company’s debt to one of the lowest ratings of its competitors,” Whitney wrote, as the first sentence of her research report. “With a 4% ROE, at what point does it make sense for Morgan Stanley to begin looking for ‘a rich uncle’?” Morgan Stanley Gets Some Tough Advice From Whitney, Mayo [DealJournal]