Topic: Jose Roncal

Securitization: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comBefore you read any farther, let's start with a little background on the term securitization and how it's evolved to the present times. If you click the link toInsightful Articles and ...READ»

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In Search of the Bottom

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:39 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.com Instead of jumping on the bandwagons of the latest hot trends and letting irrational exuberance push prices up to the unsustainable levels that create financial bubbles, everyone now ...READ»

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Market to Market Revisited

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:45 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comLast October we wrote an article explainingMark-to-Market Accounting. The article gave a basic overview about what Mark to Market means, how it works, and the pros and cons. It was a ...READ»

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Are You Investing or Speculating?

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:04 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comThat's the question we wish we could have posed to scores of individuals before they unwittingly put their trust in Ponzi schemer, Bernie Madoff. On June 29, when the judge handed down a ...READ»

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Risk Management in Today's Economy

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:03 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comIt's a generally accepted fact that to be successful, you have to be willing to take risks. When you consider the practices of contemporary entrepreneurs like Sir Richard Branson, Frederick A. ...READ»

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Has the Face of Capitalism Changed Forever?

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:56 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comThe current financial crisis has changed our perceptions of the term capitalism and everything we have always assumed it stood for. The deeper the recession gets, the longer it drags on, the ...READ»

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New Era for Hedge Funds

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:57 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comAfter years of side-stepping oversight and regulation, the hedge fund industry is about to change. Even though it's not clear what role hedge funds played in the current economic crisis, the ...READ»

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The Next Shoe to Drop: Commercial Real Estate

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 97
Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 4:18 PM

15 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com We’re all aware of the calamitous mortgage crisis with consumers loosing their homes, bank foreclosures, the lending freeze and the rapid unraveling of the economy in ...READ»

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Bonuses Versus the Big Picture

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 95
Tue Feb 3, 2009 at 3:11 PM

2 February 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com On his ninth day in office, President Obama took a broad swipe at Wall Street, calling the $18.4 billion in bonuses for 2008 "the height of irresponsibility" and ...READ»

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By Any Other Name, it's Still the Same

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 94
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:42 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comNationalization. The word makes one shudder! It might even drudge up old images of the hammer and sickle or Mao's men marching in khaki uniforms! We've already mentioned the ...READ»

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Looking ahead to Q1 of 2009

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 93
Mon Jan 5, 2009 at 3:18 PM

5 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com We’ve all heard the old adage, “it’s always darkest before the dawn.” But exactly when can we expect things to lighten up? There’s so much paranoia and ...READ»

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Banks: The Need to Get Personal

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:59 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comWhile the G-20 world leaders meet and discuss ways to reverse the deep global recession, others like Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor, focuses on what's happening back ...READ»

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Bubbles and Regulation

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:01 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comOur current economic crisis is so deep and complex it's not likely to right itself anytime soon. How do we work ourselves out of this hole? Do we need more regulation or less? This is a ...READ»

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The Credit Card Crisis

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:53 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comBack in September, 2008 we covered a topic that we believed was getting too little attention by mainstream media: the looming credit card crisis. In both our white paper,Consumer Debt in ...READ»

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The Future of the Credit Card Industry

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:06 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comLast fall we wroteConsumer Debt in the U.S., an extensive report on the state of credit debt in the U.S. We've also written about the credit crunch in our bookThe Big Gamble. There is valuable ...READ»

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It's Turnaround Time

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 4:08 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comYou've probably read all the flack over this week's cover on Newsweek magazine—"The Recession is Over," with an added footnote reading, "good luck surviving the recovery." The message ...READ»

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Housing Recovery Plan: What's Fair?

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 90
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:36 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspecultaion.comThere have been so many bail-out packages, stimulus proposals and other unprecedented plans designed to save the economy, it's become nearly impossible for the casual observer to keep track of ...READ»

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Another Wall Street Fiasco!

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 89
Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:18 PM

14 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com An epic fraud has just been uncovered – this time it doesn’t involve those new exotic and complex securitized debt/credit default swap packages. No, this one is a ...READ»

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September Song For Wall Street

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 89
Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:38 PM

29 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com It wasn’t just autumn leaves that started falling last September; it was the entire investment banking system. When Lehman Brothers got into deep financial trouble and ...READ»

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Worst Housing Drop Since the Great Depression

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 88
Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:42 PM

30 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com In the book I co-authored—The Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating—I wrote a chapter during the first quarter of 2008 entitled, The Mother of all Crisis: ...READ»

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The Big Bank Balancing Act

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 84
Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 3:12 PM

16 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com I remember the good old days when banks used to lend money to “we the people.” Now we’re being forced to lend money to them. Not so long ago, banks were eager to get ...READ»

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On Investing and Speculating

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 70
Sun Aug 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM

Jose D. Roncalwww.financialspeculation.comIf you've read our bookThe Big Gamble: Are You Investing or Speculating, you may have made the connection between passages of our book and a recent Forbes.com article entitled, Benjamin ...READ»

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Bailouts and Stimulus Packages: Missing the Mark

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 70
Thu Jan 1, 2009 at 9:29 PM

22 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com What exactly was all this U.S. Federal bailout money—the Temporary Asset Relief Program (TARP)—supposed to relieve? Let’s review the highlights First of all, ...READ»

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The End of a Tumultuous Year

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 66
Fri Jan 2, 2009 at 8:53 PM

31 December 2008 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com As we start the New Year, it’s time to glance in the rear view mirror and rejoice that 2008 is behind us. It was a tumultuous year during which nearly every aspect of ...READ»

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What's in Store for Small Business?

BY jose Roncal
Relevancy Score: 64
Tue Jan 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM

12 January 2009 Jose D. Roncal www.financialspeculation.com The economic downturn has hit businesses both large and small, boosting the number of bankruptcies to levels not seen since 1939. Growing unemployment rolls, losses of ...READ»

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