Companies that purchase debt cheaply then collect it aggressively are shockingly easy to start. We can prove it! (Via Barry Ritholtz) (Via HBO)…

…  There was a great article this morning on housing over at Barry Ritholtz’s The Big Picture. Be sure to read it all, but here are a couple of important…

…no less than Barry Ritholtz of the Big Picture has argued that Fed rate hikes actually *increase* inflation but raising the costs of mortgages in particular. And I among others…

…was 25 or 30 years ago. Rich takes us back, reminding us that Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater (who in 1964 was considered ultra-conservative) was married to a woman who…

Barry Ritholz’s The Big Picture carries a link to Presimetrics in the Reads to start your week section of his blog and Mike has been asked by Barry to post…

…part of what I said earlier: this isn’t comparable to hitting on 17 because you’re drunk; it’s hitting on 19 because you’re desperate and insane. As Barry R. closes: If…

Hat tip to Barry Ritholz at the Big Picture for this link listing the 10 best gloom and doom sites. 1. Daily Reckoning 2. Clusterfuck Nation 3. The Big Picture…

…of the water in an award-winning act of courage by this guy, Lambert. BARRY: By his chief petty officer. MATTHEWS: And his write-up, his citation said? BARRY: He was under…

… though it’s surely for reasons other than reading and commenting here. In any case, Barry R. was interviewed by Business Week on the subject of markets and the election:…

…been “jobless recovery”, but we may now have an even better moniker: The Arnold Economy. Blogger Barry of The Big Picture found this gem tucked away in IView Research’s Weekly…