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- Markham's Mix Tape: March 23, 2009
- Markham Lee submits: The usual "Mixture" of news stories and other items I think you may find interesting; as I didn't publish a mix-tape last week this version will be mixture of the old and the new. Here is a look at the...
- External links 2009-03-23
- Markham's Mix Tape: February 17, 2009
- Markham Lee submits: The usual mixture of news stories and other tidbits I think you may find interesting: An update on the Sirius-XM Radio SIRI situation: it appears that there is a proposal on the table whereby John Malone's liberty media would invest into the company in exchange...
- External links 2009-02-17
- OECD Economic Forecasts Remain Gloomy
- Markham Lee submits: Here is an graphic from the Economist depicting the forecasts from the OECD for the U.S., the Eurozone, Japan and OECD overall: click to enlarge by Markham Lee
- External links 2008-11-17
- Circuit City Unlikely To Successfully Emerge from Bankruptcy
- Markham Lee submits: Several months ahead of my earlier prediction of the company falling sometime after the holiday shopping season, Circuit City CC filed for bankruptcy this morning: From the WSJ: "Troubled electronics retailer Circuit City Stores Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday in an...
- External links 2008-11-10
- AIG and the Free Lunch Myth
- Markham Lee submits: Monday's WSJ had a rather astounding passage contained within an article on AIG and the risk models utilized within their Credit Default Swap business referred to as their Financial Products Unit: From the WSJ: "AIG began selling credit-default swaps around 1998. Mr. Gorton's work...
- External links 2008-11-05
- Circuit City Blows a Fuse
- Markham Lee submits: Let's check in on one of my favorite whipping boys: Circuit City CC. Needless to say the news isn't particularly good: From the FT: Circuit City, the troubled US consumer electronics chain, is taking urgent steps to keep its business afloat even as the holiday shopping season...
- External links 2008-11-04
- Housing Data Shows Downturn Could Be Prolonged
- Markham Lee submits: The image below comes from the Economist's daily chart feature, and looks at the YoY change in home prices from 1988 to present: by Markham Lee
- External links 2008-11-03
- Nationalizing Detroit? It's a Good Idea
- Markham Lee submits: A recent FT article discussing a study by the NY Federal Reserve that estimated that each job within NYC's financial industry was responsible for generating 2.5 additional jobs within the city, got me thinking about the number of jobs that are dependant on the American auto industry....
- External links 2008-10-31
- U.K. Debt Burden from Current Crisis to Last 20 Years
- Markham Lee submits: Here are a couple of graphics related to the debt burden British taxpayers are likely to face over the cost of the current economic crisis: First a graphic depicting net borrowing as a % of GDP from 1980 - through the...
- External links 2009-01-29
- Buy a GM Car, Get 50 Shares Free?!
- Markham Lee submits: From the WSJ: "The steady stream of bad news coming from the U.S. automotive industry prompted one Texas dealer to take some creative license on its latest incentive: Buy a new car, get 50 shares of General Motors GM stock. Frank Kent Motor Co.,...
- External links 2008-10-21
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- Will Ultimate Electronics' Wattles Get Circuit City?
- Part 1 of a series. (See Part 2, "How Mark Wattles Fixes Broken Retailers.") Mark Wattles, the dissident Circuit City shareholder, has gotten almost everything he wanted from management to date. With a $200 million "blank check" stock offering in registration, a track record turning around Hollywood...
- Blog posts 2008-06-25
- Can Gap Come Back?
- The Gap has faltered for several quarters, with slowing earnings growth and an increasingly obscure brand identity. Younger buyers flock to cooler competitors like Abercrombie and American Eagle, and Gap's Forth & Towne brand failed to win its target market of middle-aged women. Some key executives, including the company's vice...
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
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