VIDEO: Warren Buffett, Wall Street, and the New Administration
BNN's Squeeze Play - January 20, 2009


Janet Tavakoli explains how Warren Buffett weathered the global financial meltdown while Wall Street floundered in her new book: Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street. She also talks about the issues that the new administration has to address. She said that in addition to bad lending combined with leverage, investment banks were also peddling phony assets. She asserts the originator perpetrators were investment banks and the ratings agencies. She said the rating agencies were merely selling cutlery to the Hannibal Lecters of Wall Street. The blowups in the CDS and CDO markets and other derivative markets weren’t “outliers”, they were caused by “outright liars.”



Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a Chicago-based firm that provides consulting to financial institutions and institutional investors. Ms. Tavakoli has more than 20 years of experience in senior investment banking positions, trading, structuring and marketing structured financial products. She is a former adjunct professor of derivatives at the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of: Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (John Wiley & Sons, 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (John Wiley & Sons, 2008).

Janet Tavakoli's book on the global financial meltdown is Dear Mr. Buffett: What An Investor Learns 1,269 Miles From Wall Street (Wiley 2009)


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