The 10th Man Archive, July 2015

Floor Monkeys and Decentralization of Risk
  • July 30, 2015

Floor Monkeys and Decentralization of Risk

As most of you know, I used to be a clerk on the floor of the old P. Coast options exchange in San Francisco. What a place. I could tell stories about that floor for weeks. The craziest things you ever heard.

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Distressed Investing
  • July 23, 2015

Distressed Investing

When most people think of distressed investing, they think of buying CCC-rated bonds at 20 or 30 cents on the dollar, then maybe sitting in bankruptcy court to divvy up the capital structure, making healthy risk-adjusted returns in the end. You just need to hire a few lawyers.

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The End of the Ends of the World
  • July 9, 2015

The End of the Ends of the World

We are about a week into the Greek non-crisis, and nothing especially scary has happened. Stocks opened up lower a couple of times, and there was one wild trading day in EURUSD, but everything is essentially unchanged. Which surprised everyone. Including me, a little.

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