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A Prince Turned Pauper - WSJ - Sympathizing with another member of the aristocracy.  The Prince does love those petro dollars.

 

Surveying the Best Deals - The Deal - The attitudes and perspectives of top executives, investors, advisers and outside consultants in the emerging-technology industry during 2007.

 

Wall Street Compensation: Issues, Structure and Accountability - Information Arbitrage - Some more interesting ideas and commentary on fixing compensation incentives on Wall Street.

 

# of Homes Sold http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2008/03/where-foreclosu.htm">Where foreclosures > # of Homes Sold - The Big Pictures - Falling home sales and rising foreclosures.  Can it get worse in housing?

 

Schwarzman’s School Ties - DealBook - Congratulating Schwarzman on his gift to the Inner-City Scholarship Fund, a program run by the Archdiocese of New York.  He might have some future competition in the world of PE from Victor Anoiske. “I used to do homework and got a 90, but not much above that,” he told Victor Anoiske, a quiet, reed-thin fourth grader at the Sacred Heart School in the Bronx. “But I couldn’t get 96’s like you did.” 

 

Hedge Fund Implosion: Wall Street Blamed - Alea Blog - Will Peloton sink the ABX or did it get killed by it?  Who is to blame.  Following the links Alea has put up.

 

Installment of Diary of A Fake Goldman Trader: Becoming Your Dream - Dealbreaker - Nothing more can be said about this.

 

Walking Away and Reading Delinquency Reports - Calculated Risk - Gives some interesting insight on what we should infer from delinquency reports and what we shouldn’t infer.

 

Leveraged Losses Lessons from the Mortgage Meltdown - Calculated Risk - Excerpt from draft paper by David Greenlaw (Morgan Stanley), Jan Hatzius (Goldman Sachs), Anil Kashyap (Chicago GSB) and Hyun Shin (Princeton) in its entirety here (Leveraged Losses: Lessons from the Mortgage Market Meltdown).

 

Warren Buffet on Efficient Markets - Alea Blog - Great commentary excerpts from Warren Buffet’s letter to shareholders.  Also see the New York Times article, "Buffet’s State of the World: There’s Folly in Wonderland".

 

The Path of Co-Investor Hatred - Going Private - Oh, the headache and then the hangover from imbibing with co-investors.

 

Networking Your Way into Investment Banking - Mergers and Inquisitions - Advice for non-targets that does work, although, good luck if you don’t already have a full-time or summer analyst offer by now.

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