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I think about AI off and on in a desultory sort of way. I wonder about its threats and promises; a sci-fi dystopia of the Industrial Revolution 2.0. One thing I share with our most recent wannabe president, Ms. Harris, I, too, know that AI stands for Artificial Intelligence.
I also suspect like almost everyone, that pretty…
With the zoftig and still mutitative Big, Beautiful Bill stumbling through an unseemly Congressional favor-trading lollapalooza, one is reminded of Ms. Pelosi’s famous quip, “We’ve got to pass this bill to know what’s in it.” That made me think about trades and strategies based upon government dysfunction. There is and always will be dysfunction and…
Those Bond villains got it so wrong. All the time and energy they spent trying to control the world through complex and nefarious schemes involving laser beams, atom bombs, Fort Knox gold, exploding satellites and whatever the malefactor was trying to do in that stupid ice palace in Die Another Day (Pierce Brosnan, what were you…
It’s been a tough couple of months in the henhouse. My domesticated fowl friends and I are in a foul mood. (We’ll use “them” here, albeit I think I have a pretty good idea of how to distinguish the hims from the hers, but my bona fides among the progressive set need burnishing. Sidebar: I have no idea…
Mr. Pulte is now the great poohbah of Fannie and Freddie supervising the Twins from his seat at FHFA and also now acting as chair of their respective boards. What is he going to do (assuming he has any agency here)?
Among the tsunami of orders, presidential actions and findings ( I can, at least, get…
Have you noticed the explosion of adjectival (and adverbial) usage? President Trump, perhaps our Adjectiver-in-Chief, never says someone is doing his job, it’s always a fantastic job. No one in the White House is ever in discussions, they’re always in serious and important discussions (I suspect an impartial observer would conclude that there’s more than…
I just finished a book by Richard Overy called The Twilight Years analyzing the dying throes of the exceptionalism of the British Empire (American clerisy, please take note). There was a fascinating discussion about the peace movement in the UK between the wars and its impact on the collective psyche of the nation. That movement was robust…
The political adventure in self-abuse that we call an election is now well behind us. I planned to write this commentary last November, hence the “Just” in the title. My inability to even assay an answer to that question which would pass my relatively low standards for perspicacity has stayed my pen these several months. But now, it’s…
As regular readers of CrunchedCredit will know, I recently pitched the idea of amending our hoary old REMIC statute to allow additions of collateral after the startup date window to allow modification to performing loans (and to clarify any uncertainty about eligibility of PACE, CPACE and mezz debt). This commentary follows from a note I wrote…
This title may be a bit ambitious, a triumphalist embrace of hope over experience? But it’s time for the effort to be made.
With the help of my former colleagues at Dechert, notably Will Cejudo (me being the former, not him), we have proposed a new bill (need a catchy name…help, please) to amend the hoary…
