Scott MacDonald Quotes (8 Quotes)

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

The credit cycle likely peaked last year. But we aren't looking at a sharp drop down, rather a long sloping hillside.

These deals are still relatively new to the market. People may be a little more nervous about where hybrids are headed.

The banking industry is extraordinarily prepared, but there's no way to keep all operations up and running when they are under the water.

Then, as now, the party was about much more than the game it was about kids away from home for the first time, testing their limits and themselves, which might be, after all, the literal definition of education. What's wrong with the Dionysian tradition of letting out what's normally repressed ... College is about this kind of explosion. It should be a place where special excitements and possibilities are part of the package. I'm pretty sure drinking to excess predated our collegiate football leagues by, like, thousands of years.

The Dow is up on the year and anything that has a positive spin to it certainly helps give you a better feel in the credit market. But the question is sustainability

He'd be hurt, but he'd be alive.

You have to know what you're buying in to. Hybrid securities are going to be the most sensitive to any bad times in the credit markets.