Posts filed under art financier

May 21, 2012

Musings on the Art Market

The May auction performances gleaned countless viewers, gawkers, critics and some buyers; indeed a sufficient number of buyers to drive the prices of a small number of pictures to new…
May 14, 2012

BANCO SECOND EPISODE

All the talk about Jamie and J.P. Morgan’s strength. One wonders about the relative strength of JP CHASE in the last crises and since. Has Jamie used the flexible accounting regulations to…
May 14, 2012

BANCO: Jamie, Jamie, Jamie

Despite our suffering during the last four years with your most supreme arrogance and hubris we applaud you as the king of a corrupt system, a system where: 1) Derivatives outstanding…
April 20, 2012

A Curious Arbitrage

by Asher B. Edelman An interesting fight looms in Congress. The Tea Party lead Republicans are fighting to double the interest rates on student loans to 6.8%. The Treasury (U.S….
March 29, 2012

Mary Abbott: A Wake Up Call

Unwrapping the paintings for our “Abstraction” exhibition, I had a shock or at least a wonderful surprise. I called to my associates and said, “Wow, who of you managed to…
December 08, 2011

Deutschland Über Alles

by Asher B. Edelman – I don’t think so! In the last one hundred years Germany has made two attempts to own, control and dominate Europe. Each has been repulsed….
November 15, 2011

Evicted

Dear Friends, Today the Occupy Wall Street protesters were evicted from Zuccotti Park. Regardless of one’s political or economic persuasions, this act will be seen as having been cavalier and…