"If you could somehow start a large, well-capitalized bank today, with no legacy loans to deal with, you could rake in the money."...

Floyd Norris takes the conventional view : How bad are the new housing start numbers? Horrid. Here’s one statistic: The government calculate...

NYT's Floyd Norris publishes some interesting data from Sungard Astec about stock borrowing actiivity for short sales during the period...