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Department of non-leading indicators

13 Feb 2008 03:08 pm

Morgan Stanley just announced massive layoffs at its residential mortgage business; it's shutting down the UK end altogether. One suspects that more than a few senior managers are thinking wistfully of the Glass-Steagall days. The Dean Witter merger was . . . well, the less said about that, the better; now their attempt to diversify into the Savings and Loan business has met a similar fate. Stand by for corporate retreats in which highly paid management consultants are brought in to lecture the executives about core competencies.

Comments (1)

why do you even bother? given your insight, we should have been seeing banks/brokers reporting 'blow-out' quarters because they've already taken maximum write-downs to 'get it out of the way'...

please, remember, there's always 877-RENT-A-CLU.

http://clusty.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&query=banks+bankrupt

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