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Raynes: CDOs Are Nothing Without Analysis

MarketWatch interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes on the importance of informed analysis in marketing CDOs.

Read the full article by Alistair Barr: “Out of Thin Air: Synthetic CDOs, at the center of Goldman suit, inflated the credit bubble,” MarketWatch, […] Continue Reading…

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Film Fund-amentals: Act 3-and-a-Half

F. Scott Fitzgerald said there was no second act in American life. He was wrong (just look at the political career of Richard Nixon). Likewise, Thomas Wolfe poetically warned us that we can’t go home again. He was half […] Continue Reading…

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R&R’s Rutledge on the Need for Objective Rating of CDOs

R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is interviewed at length on the Daily Finance website about the need for drastic reforms to address shortcomings in the CDO market highlighted by the Goldman Sach Abacus case.

Read the full interview by Peter […] Continue Reading…

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BNN Interviews Raynes on the Role of Rating Agencies in the Financial Crisis

As hearings on Capitol Hill explore the role rating agencies played in the financial crisis, Business News Network interviews R&R Consulting Principal Sylvain Raynes for his insights.

Watch the full interview on Squeezeplay.

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Malfeasance, Not Exuberance, Was the Crux of the Crisis

David Fiderer recently explored the deeper ramifications of the Goldman Sachs controversy in a hard-hitting essay on Huffington Post entitled John Paulson Defends His Toxic CDOs By Insulting Everyone’s Intelligence.” R&R Consulting’s Ann Rutledge solicits his further thoughts on […] Continue Reading…

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R&R’s Rutledge on the Cassandras of the Mortgage Industry

R&R Consulting principal Ann Rutledge is quoted in an Associated Press article about the role of short-sellers in the mortgage securities debacle.

Read the article by Bernard Condon, “Does Goldman case tarnish Cassandras of the crash?”, Associated Press, April 21, […] Continue Reading…

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Raynes Comments on Goldman in Les Echos

R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes comments on the Goldman Sachs controversy in the French weekly Les Echos.

Read the full article, “« Le grand déballage ne fait que commencer »,” Les Echos, April 20, 2010.

For an earlier article by Pierre […] Continue Reading…

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Film Fund-amentals: The Tweet Smell of Success

Back in the Bronze Age, when Windows 3.11 was the latest thing, I worked as an American reporter for a British magazine via the Internet. Yes, those were the magical days when virtually everything was in text, Usenet was […] Continue Reading…

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Don Harrold’s Follow-up on Raynes vs Cramer

Stock-picker Don Harrold interviews R&R Consulting principal Sylvain Raynes about his recent controversial encounter with Jim Cramer on CNBC. Watch the full interview on YouTube.

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Raynes vs Cramer on CNBC

R&R principal Sylvain Raynes is deemed insufficiently polite in a tussle with Jim Cramer over the SEC’s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs. People who don’t have a problem with that may enjoy this clip on Youtube.

UPDATE: Bloggers weigh in […] Continue Reading…

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