Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street
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Sugrue, Chris
Refco money, lending
Suitability, application
Super catastrophe (super-cat) business
Survivorship bias, returns distortion
Swartz, Mark
Swensen, David
Synthetic CDOs (hedging), credit derivatives (usage)
Synthetic CDO-squared, toxicity
Syron, Richard
T
Taleb, Nassim, Nicholas (black swan) (conditional probabilities)
Tamraz, Cathy Baron
Tannin, Matthew
Cioffi electronic exchanges
indictment
TASS, net returns (decrease)
Tavakoli, Janet M.
Buffett Rule
critical mass
Tavakoli’s Law, statement
Theory of Everything in Finance
Technology bubble
Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), Carlyle creation
Thain, John
IPO origination, information
Theory of Investment Value, The (Williams)
Thermopylae, battle
Third-party assumptions, usage
Third-party valuations, occurrence
Third World Conference
Thrift crisis (1980s)
Tillman,Vickie
Tilson,Whitney
Tobias, Andrew
Total return BRKA, growth/value managers (contrast)
Total return swaps, usage
Tranches, trading
Transparency, Sarbanes-Oxley promotion
Tricadia
Trust, restoration
Tudor Investment Corporation, Pallotta management
Tug of War (Erdman)
Tversky, Amos
2/28 hybrid ARM, fixed interest payment amount
U
Undercapitalized managers, impact
Union Fire Company, Franklin initiation
United Nations Security Council, Resolution
United States, Iran suspicions
United States Department of Housing and Urgan Development (HUD) problems
Unobservable inputs, usage
Unwinding the position
Upside down mortgage (defined)
U.S. subprime losses, IMF estimates
V
Value destruction, permanency
Value opportunities, Buffett search
Vanderbilt Mortgage
Volatility, control
W
Wachovia
Wald, Jonathan
Waldorf, Michael
Wall Street Journal, Buffett appreciation
Washington Mutual (Wa Mu)
Welch, Jack
Wells Fargo
West, Mae
Wertheimer, Eitan
Wertheimer, Ariel
Wertheimer, Stef
When Genius Failed (Lowenstein)
Whim of Iron (Marin blog)
Whitney, Meredith
Why We Fight
Wighton, David
Williams, John Burr
Willis, Gerri
Winston, Harry
WorldCom, scandal
Wright, Kirk
Y
Yale Endowment, private equity investments
Yield spread premium
Young, Donald
Z
Zero subprime-backed investments, Gordian Knot purchase