BizJournals Portfolio
Nov 28 2007 12:00am EDT

Extra Credit, Wednesday Edition

Simons at Renaissance Cracks Code, Doubling Assets: Jim Simons grants an interview to Bloomberg's Richard Teitelbaum.

CPDOs Bloodbath [continued]

Subprime Near a Bottom? Most bonds have a natural recovery value of at least 20 cents or so. Low-tranche subprime RMBS? Not so much. I reckon if they're trading at 20 (which they're not, but the ABX BBB index is at 20) then that just means they have 20 points of downside to go.

Ode to a giant saltstick

Builders of masterpieces: The Compagnons.

"Cyber Scholars": A short profile of Mark Thoma. When will journalists stop writing that blog is "short for web log"?

Bleg: Survey of econ bloggers: Help Aaron Schiff design a survey for econobloggers.

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