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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway Annual report 2008 / a must read</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/berkshire-hathaway-annual-report-2008-a-must-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/2008ar/2008ar.pdf
You can&#8217;t be mistaken when you are reading from the greatest punters in the Financial space &#8211; Warren Buffett. The Chairman&#8217;s letter to shareholders did not dissappoint me. It was filled with the usual interesting titbits on his insurance ops and business, the concept of insurance &#8216;float&#8217;, his profit margins, the stake he took in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=809&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Satyam fiasco &#8211; Ramalinga Raju&#8217;s misadventures</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/the-satyam-fiasco-raju-confessions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sorry for not blogging about this earlier. I did not have access to broadband Internet at my home for the last 3 days and was working off my Blackberry for office related tasks.
While the economic and financial implications have been written about far and wide and everyone is busy reading the tea leaves, what are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=681&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street &#8211; the movie / 1987</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/12/30/wall-street-the-movie-1987/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_(film)
I saw this captivating movie on TV today and it really sums up what has been happening. A great movie about a young broker who decides to go the fast track unethical way of conveying insider information but thankfully stops short but does get nailed towards the end.
Michael Douglas (Gordon Gekko in the movie) and Charlie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=643&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Government bails out CITIGROUP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:07:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As expected, the US Government bails out CITIGROUP. They are extending a lifeline of $20 billion at a higher rate of interest than that given by the TARP plan. Also, they plan to absorb some of the bad assets provided CITI takes the initial $5 billion followed by the US Government followed by the FDIC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=596&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can large banks fail / CITIBANK on the brink</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/can-large-banks-fail-citibank-on-the-brink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw the developments of the last week where CITI (NYSE: C) shares really fell to $3 a share and was in danger of going bust as public confidence was eroding sharply. CITI faces a real threat of a collapse.
There were two options open to the board: 1. Fire the CEO, Vikram Pandit as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=592&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I crazy about Wall Street/US monetary policies?</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/why-am-i-crazy-about-wall-streetus-monetary-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simply because, it has a huge impact - no matter where you are in this world!
What happens out there impacts every single country in this world. It impacts you you and you. It impacts the decision making we make on our jobs etc. It impacts our local domestic economy. No matter how much we claim of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=518&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CITIGROUP takes over Wachovia banking operations</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/citigroup-takes-over-wachovia-banking-operations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tumble continues. The Fed&#8217;s $250 billion immediate injection to buy toxic assets of troubled financial institutions, followed by the $100 billion based on President&#8217;s approval followed by another $350 billion subject to approval of Congress did not help.
Wachovia (NYSE: WB) is the latest in the casuality list with a $2 billion takeover by CITIGROUP [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=508&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wachovia is in trouble</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/27/wachovia-is-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Wachovia is going to be the next casuality to get acquired. Potential suitors include Citigroup (NYSE:C), Wells Fargo among others.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/business/27bank.html?hp
The $ 700 billion bailout is taking time but taking its casualities as well.
Going forward &#8211; I will blog more about the correlation between this credit crunch and a more economics, freakonomics type [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=505&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WaMu goes to JPMChase</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/wamu-goes-to-jpmchase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington Mutual is the largest bank failure in US history. It went up for grabs yesterday as JPMorgan Chase &#38; Co. quickly acquired it for $ 1.9 billion.
This continues the series of fallouts of companies since last week when Lehman announced bankruptcy and Merrill got acquired by Bank of America.
How did JPMorgan stay clear of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=496&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fed tries to come up with a solution</title>
		<link>http://ecofin.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/fed-tries-to-come-up-with-a-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Naveen Athresh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In what is termed as the worst crisis to hit the financial landscape of Corporate America since the 1930&#8217;s and the great depression, the Fed made an emergency attempt to get the Congress to agree to a $ 700 billion rescue plan aimed to stem the current financial turmoil by purchasing the bad assets from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ecofin.wordpress.com&blog=481625&post=478&subd=ecofin&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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