If you need a scapegoat for your financial ponzi scheme, there's a guy on Craigslist who's looking for a job: Is your hedge fund in dire financial straits? Are you totally screwed and now realizing that someone has to take the fall? Has your ponzi scheme enveloped numerous celebrity-endorsed chariti...

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My recent tirade against bailing out the hedge fund half of AIG makes much more sense when you consider who is actually getting all of the taxpayer largesse: Counter-parties of AIG, especially one Goldman Sachs. Some estimates have been in excess of $25 billion to GS. As AIG ran into the arms of the...

Here's the 13F Chart study for Dan Loeb's Third Point Management updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/5/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales are...

Here's the 13F Chart study for Dave Tepper's Appaloosa Management updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/5/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio changes... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue w...

Here's the 13F Chart study for T. Boone Pickens' BP Capital updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/3/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales are the ...

Here's the 13F Chart study for Tom Steyer's Farallon Capital updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/3/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio changes... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whales...

Here's the 13F Chart study for Barry Rosenstein'sJana Partners updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/3/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio changes since... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blu...

Here's the 13F Chart study for Tim Barakett's Atticus Capital updated for Q4 2008 (priced as of 3/3/09). As always, keep in mind that the 13F filing is a snapshot at 12/31/08, and there may have been significant portfolio changes... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – Sun Mar 8 8P Blue whale...

As if 2008 wasn't tough enough for hedge funds, 2009 could be even tougher. Not only is there an expectation that there will be more redemption notices, thanks to Ponzi scummer Bernie Madoff, but now brokers are said to be......