Money and Financial Lifestyle

Disclaimer: the following post may contain topics that are unappealing to those of a squeamish or overly proper attitude. One of the problems with getting older is that things wear out.

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Getting My Troubles Beind Me

When I was an undergrad (yeah, I know - a long time ago), I would often roll my eyes when a professor made a cultural reference that was about 30 years before my time. Now I increasingly find myself in the clueless professor’s shoes.

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What Does The Class of 2014 Know?

Because of the end of the semester, some heath issues (since resolved), working on research, and being a bit burned, I haven’t posted anything for several months. But like one of the best business tacticians of our times says, “Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in”

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I’m Still Alive (but things might make me laugh myself to death)

This Harvard undergrad’s senior thesis on CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations) and their role in the credit crisis was recently mention in Deal Journal. It the doesn’t say anything new, but it does an impressive job of marshaling facts about the CDO markets - the author hand-collected a data set on over 700 CDO deals, and provides a wealth of information. What’s more, she did it within a semester’s time.

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Undergraduate Thesis on CDOs and the Credit Meltdown

I’m here in Dayton at the R.I.S.E. forum (a very large student-focused conference on the investment world), and I’m waiting for my students to get their stuff together

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Hanging Out In Scenic Dayton

We’re getting close to the point where I cover the credit crisis in class, and it’s also almost time for March Madness (even if my UCONN Huskies have soiled the matress to the ext thqt they’ll get an early vacation)). So this comes at an ideal time - the Market Meltdown Game. Here’s the article from the American Economic Association Last August, the University of Chicago Magazine asked Allen Sanderson to create an NCAA-like tournament with four regions, brackets and seeded teams

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Market Meltdown Game

Just had a stress test (there was a minor irregularity in an EKG at my recent physical). I’d been putting in a lot of seat time (on the bike) at the gym up until about 3 weeks ago when some other problems had me stopping altogether, so I wasn’t too worried.

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Stess Tests and Shaved Wookies

Here’s a pretty good “brief” memoir Eugene Fama wrote for a journal. I say “brief” because it runs pretty long - but that’s to be expected given all the work that Fama has done.

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Memoir of Gene Fama

As several readers have noted, I haven’t been posting much lately. Mostly, I’ve been working - trying to get ahead in my classes, working on research, and in general keeping a low profile. So, here’s a brief update on things

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I’m Still Here

I might tune into the SOTU (State Of The Union) address tonight. Unfortunately, I have to watch the Unknown Kids (unknown Wife has a girls night out). If I weren’t, I might be willing to try one of the following SOTU drinking games: From the Huffington Post From the San Francisco Chronicle From the New York Daily News But, since I have to watch the kids (and I want to have a liver once I’m 60), I guess I’ll just have to content myself with SOTU Bingo .

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Preparing for Obama’s SOTU Address