Meredith Whitney

This is an interview Whitney did on C-Span last week. It runs an hour and therefore gives you a very comprehensive look at her views on the financial sector and the economy. Enjoy.

Meredith Whitney was a guest host on CNBC at 8AM ET talking about an anticipated housing double dip. The videos are below. A few comments first.  Whitney was late to the recovery party in 2009 in my view. But I found the recent Rip…

Meredith Whitney sounds off in today's Wall Street Journal about small businesses. She is worried about the lack of credit they are getting and its effect on the tenuous economic recovery in keeping the unemployment rate high. She writes:…

Meredith Whitney talks to Bloomberg's Jonathan Weil in a wide-ranging interview about the banking sector. This is a good one – the best I have seen - because you get to hear Whitney's views on the sector's stocks from a fundamental and a…

Meredith Whitney was on CNBC in London this morning. She concentrates her comments on mortgages and banking. She sees the winter lull as a harbinger of renewed softness in the housing market. Note: the FOMC statement today reiterated the…

John Hussman’s latest weekly contribution contends that the market is now extremely overvalued, to the point where long-term returns will likely be low. As of last week, the S&P 500 nearly matched the richest valuations, on…

I am not sure I buy Meredith Whitney's assertion that the government is “out of bullets” in its quest to prop up the economy. It’s a matter of political will more than anything else. Nevertheless, I do agree with her basic premise in the…

Below is a CNBC video with Meredith Whitney in which she joins Nouriel Roubini on the doom and gloom parade.  Over the summer, both Whitney and Roubini were fairly optimistic. In June I said: Think of the consensus forecast as an…

Meredith Whitney downgraded Goldman Sachs from ‘buy’ to ‘neutral’ today.  Previously, Goldman had been her only buy recommended stock, all of the others rated neutral or ‘sell.’  Why did she do it? FT Alphaville has the answer:…

Just when I was wondering where Meredith Whitney had gone, she’s back.  But she has a whole new tone to her.  In this interview on CNBC, she says she is expecting a monster number from Goldman (GS) tomorrow morning, in 2010 and in 2011. She…