Bank_2011_26. Uncommon News & Views for the Wise Investor. Tanta: Let Slip the Dogs of Hell. By Bill McBride on 12/15/2006 10:26:00 AM 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).
The third Big Dog with a new stake in GMAC is Citigroup, who sent out a cute “Industry Note” on 12/13/06 on the subject of the coming consolidation in the mortgage biz. Hospodářský mechanismus.