Future Sight

A Macro view on the economy, markets and business. This is the copyrighted property of Jonathan Rose Company, LLC 2004-2011 it is not in any way associated with Jonathan F.P. Rose or the Jonathan Rose Companies whose website can be found at rose-network.com

What caused the crash, who should go to prison and how to fix this mess

jonsyrose | April 6, 2009

This article could have so many titles:   Whose to Blame?   Why are the wrong people being blames?   The one reform the market desperately requires?   Where was the free market watchdog? No not the SEC……   Why are the rating agencies not owning responsibility for their mess?   Should AIG and Madoffs [...]

Hidden Time Bombs that investors should learn to look for

jonsyrose | February 25, 2008

Investing in businesses in the stock market is riskier business than you realise. The American standard accounting practices hide a multitude of sins from the unsavy investor. Companies like Enron, Countrywide Financial and GMAC can be huge titans one day with seemingly positive and healthy balance sheets and gone the next in a sea of [...]

Feeding The Beast – Countrywide is Hungry For Money Again

jonsyrose | September 12, 2007

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the evils of CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbons) were being vilified in the press. Today we have a different type of negative connotation to CFC’s (Countrywide Financial Corporation). Blamed for much of financial liquidity crisis and turmoil during August 2007 (they were just being greedily like everyone else, but they got [...]

Feeding the Beast

jonsyrose | September 12, 2007

It doesn’t seem so long ago that the evils of CFC’s (Chlorofluorocarbons) were being vilified in the press. Today we have a different type of negative connotation to CFC’s (Countrywide Financial Corporation). Blamed for much of financial liquidity crisis and turmoil during August 2007 (they were just being greedily like everyone else, but they got [...]