Tanta has passed
I'm not sure how many people out there know Tanta's writing, but if you are at all curious about how mortgages played a hand in our current debacle, you should. She was co-blogger for Calculated Risk and a mortgage banker for 20 years. She was the best writer out there in terms of clarity and wit, and she she did not suffer fools lightly.
Calculated Risk sums it up best, and provides a taste of her writing. I recommend CR's archives for anyone who wants to read and understand more.
She will be missed.
Calculated Risk sums it up best, and provides a taste of her writing. I recommend CR's archives for anyone who wants to read and understand more.
I still haven't gotten over the fact that there's a "capital management" group out there having named itself "Cerberus". Those of you who were not asleep in Miss Buttkicker's Intro to Western Civ will recognize Cerberus; the rest of you may have picked up the mythological fix from its reprise as "Fluffy" in the first Harry Potter novel. Wherever you get your culture, Cerberus is the three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hell. It takes three heads to do that of course, because it's never clear, in theology or finance, whether the idea is to keep the righteous from falling into the pit or the demons from escaping out of it (the third head is busy meeting with the regulators).
She will be missed.
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We'll really miss her voice and sharp analysis in the years to come.
She will be missed.