Comments on: The Cause of Bubbles = Financial Engineering vs Investing

By: jwjpipes

jwjpipes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:58:59 +0000

By: jwjpipes

jwjpipes — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:57:41 +0000

hey mark not sure if you read comments….if you do im reaching out in desperation. I am a huge mavs fan and live in san antonio…im here because my sister recently attempted to commit suicide and is in the hospital and my friends 29 year old brother just died of cancer. going through a rough time. looking for anything to make us smile. i know it sounds corny but i was wodnering if you could help us out with some tickets to the game tuesday….i know this is really lame but we are both broke and looking for something to take our mind off the pain we are living in…..thanks a lot

By: Финансовият инженеринг а не инвестициите е причина за кризата « Ипотпал лаптопски

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:58:48 +0000

[...] Финансовият инженеринг а не инвестициите е причина за кризата Posted октомври 17, 2009 Filed under: коментари | Tags: финанси | Отдавна не се бях зачитал в блога на Марк Кубан и днес си понаваксах с четенето. Статията, която ми направи впечатление е: The Cause of Bubbles = Financial Engineering vs Investing [...]

By: John Akerson's Thoughts » Mark Cuban, Financial Engineering and the OSWMI Fund

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:28:32 +0000

[...] really love Mark Cuban’s thoughts on Financial Engineering vs. Investing. I wish he would take his core ideas and turn them into a book. He makes great points about [...]

By: mojomikey

mojomikey — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:34:42 +0000

Great post Mark – I agree 100%. one question for you – how would you treat LBO’s – taking a public company private by borrowing against its assets/cash flow, usually by insiders? It seems to me to be a conflict of interest – if you’re the CEO leading the buyout, then why can’t you raise the share price to where it should be? And not buy out the co. at a low price, run it for a few years, and then go public again or sell to another company? it seems like the shareholders are already paying you good bux to do that. mike c

By: Mark Cuban, Financial Engineering and the OSWMI Fund « John Akerson's Thoughts

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:51:48 +0000

[...] the OSWMI Fund October 13, 2009 johnakerson Leave a comment Go to comments I really love Mark Cuban’s thoughts on Financial Engineering vs. Investing. I wish he would take his core ideas and turn them into a book. He makes great points about [...]

By: phillipm09

phillipm09 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:29:12 +0000

“Its not wrong to run with bull markets and leverage to the hilt.” Yet, “Financial engineers should have to pay a premium for the risk they introduce to the entire financial system. It was not investors that brought on the last 2 crashes. It was the financial engineers.”

1) Aren’t you contradicting yourself? LT investors are very unlikely to leverage to the hilt, because they would have to make interest payments. Institutional investors may be able to afford this, but not individuals.

2) FINANCIAL ENGINEERS CREATED FINANCIAL MARKETS!!! Bond rating companies were more at fault for what happened in 2008 than any financial engineer (not that they are the only cause).

By: Financial Engineering vs. Stupidity « Marc It Up

Financial Engineering vs. Stupidity « Marc It Up — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:54:21 +0000

[...] Engineering vs. Stupidity By mhg6mhg Mark Cuban, on his Blog Maverick web log, argues that fancy financial engineering caused the recent bust and proposed a laundry list [...]

By: bikenfly

bikenfly — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:48:57 +0000

Lazy analysis – correlation does not equal causality. Drop the ball squarely on our govt not doing its job. One small example: The SEC has been empowered to regulate the rating agencies like S&P and Moodys. They *sold* bond ratings and rated bonds that were junk as equivalent in risk to a US govt bond. In SEC speak, the rating agencies are “nationally recognized statistical rating organizations” and are empowered to do so by the SEC. Rating a pool of second mortgages of sub-prime borrowers where the collateral was vacation homes as AAA is LUDICROUS. Had the rating agencies not rated this CRAP as AAA, then the organizations that bought them for the most part would not have bought them. The rating agencies were a giant enabler and the SEC did not ACTIVELY regulate these organizations.

The credit crisis was not the result of financial speculation, it was the result of a lack of doing the oversight that the govt was supposed to do. The Madoff ponzi scheme same thing. Our taxes are supposed to go to oversight, not to “CYA” activity by regulators, but that is the end result.

By: tangiblesolutions23

tangiblesolutions23 — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 05:55:32 +0000

I’ve got some ideas on the current housing market and would like to discuss them with you, Mark Cuban.

I believe the economy, culture and society are in a unique transition from the 20th century.

The fun is making a difference.