In this video, Jim Chanos, legendary hedge fund manager of Kynikos Associates, and Robert Sloan, managing partner of S3 Partners, discuss lessons learned from the financial crisis. (Also see my recent post “Jim Chanos: Ten lessons from the financial crisis”.)

Source: CNBC, November 12, 2009.

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Jim Chanos is a legendary American hedge fund manager and president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company focused on short selling. He rose to fame in the 1980s as a short seller who had a knack for spotting stocks what he thought to be overvalued. After working as an analyst in several firms, he founded Kynikos (Greek for “cynic”) as a firm specializing in short selling.

This post, courtesy of Clusterstock, features a slideshow Chanos presented at the annual Virginia Value Investing Conference. The slides highlight in an easy-to-read format ten lessons from the financial crisis - lesson investors might already have forgotten.

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James Chanos is a legendary American hedge-fund manager and president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company focused on short selling. He rose to fame in the 1980s as a short seller who had a knack of spotting stocks he considered to be overvalued. After working as an analyst at several firms, he founded Kynikos (Greek for “cynic”) as a firm specializing in short selling.

This post features Chanos being interviewed by Rob Johnson of New Deal 2.0 - a one-stop shop for current news, fresh insight, and sharp analysis of the country’s fiscal crisis.

This is good stuff - click here for a Verbalink transcript.

Source: New Deal 2.0, August 2009.

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Anatomy of a panic? The collapse of Morgan Stanley

http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2008/11/25/18667/anatomy-of-a-panic-the-collapse-of-morgan-stanley/

Anatomy of a panic? The collapse of Morgan Stanley

From the WSJ:

It turns out that some of the biggest names on Wall Street — Merrill Lynch & Co., Citigroup Inc., Deutsche Bank and UBS AG — were placing large bets against Morgan Stanley, the records indicate. They did so using complicated financial instruments called credit-default swaps, a form of insurance against losses on loans and bonds…

…during those tumultuous few days in mid-September, the swaps market turned on Morgan Stanley like a financial Frankenstein.

Disclaimer: No evidence has emerged publicly that any firm trading in Morgan Stanley stock or credit-default swaps did anything wrong. Most of the firms say they purchased the credit-default swaps simply to protect themselves against potential losses on various types of business they were doing with Morgan Stanley.

Indeed it would be madness for Merrill, Citigroup, DB et al to actually

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As I am travelling in Europe at the moment (see “Another town, another train…”), this week’s edition of “Words from the Wise” does not provide the customary review of the financial markets’ movements and economic statistics. Given time constraints, today I will only share with you a number of video clips in lieu of excerpts from news items and quotes from market commentators. Quite a few of the video items include links to related articles for those who prefer the written word.

Firstly, as we are awaiting word on the bail-out plan, a very topical quote from Jim Welsh (Welsh Money Management): “We will be told that the Federal Reserve and

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Sometimes it’s better to listen than to talk.  That’s where we are today concerning the current market turmoil.  The following are excerpts from the PIMCO montly letter and a piece in Fortune Magazine called “Crisis Counsel” .