Richard Benson

Specialty Finance Group

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ARCHIVED ARTICLES

06/28/2010 For the Baby Busters, It's Downsize or Die
05/10/2010 Where's My Government Check?
04/08/2010 A Trillion Here, A Trillion There…
12/23/2009 Jingle Mail, Jingle Mail
11/09/2009 Twilight Zone Economy
09/16/2009 The Housing Tsunami's Second Wave
07/09/2009 Hard Times
03/19/2009 Economy: In the Eye of a Hurricane
02/05/2009 Keynes, Upside Down
12/18/2008 Uncle Sam May Grab Your Gold if You're Not Careful
09/23/2008 Trillion Dollar Treasury Deficits: Truth and Consequences
08/11/2008 How Much Will Government Bailouts Actually Cost the American Taxpayer?
07/30/2008 US Tax Revenues Go Missing
07/16/2008 Is Your Money Safe?
06/12/2008 With Inflation, There's No Free Lunch
05/27/2008 The Fed's Medicine is Toxic
05/07/2008 Tax Rebates Mean Blood In the Shark-Infested Water
04/08/2008 The Economy's Summer Holiday Has Already Begun
03/13/2008 The Magic Mirror Economy
02/08/2008 Liquidity Looked in the Mirror but Insolvency Stared Back
01/22/2008 An Economic Heart Attack Brought on by Sugar and Fat
12/06/2007 The Economy's Last Hurrah
10/28/2007 When Crumbling Credit Meets Deadly Leverage
09/14/2007 The Recession is Here
07/27/2007 Swim with the Sharks, but Risk Being Eaten Alive
07/03/2007 Independence Day is Here, But Not for Many Americans
05/24/2007 How the Government Creates Jobs
03/29/2007 Inflation and the Ironic Productivity Tax
02/22/2007 Subprime Titanic Hits Iceberg: Wall Street Abandons Ship
12/02/2006 The Dollar Dam is Breaking
11/09/2006 When the Home Equity Cookie Jar is Empty
09/28/2006 It's Deal or No Deal as the Hedges Clip Investors
07/31/2006 Inflation Non-Cents
07/17/2006 Don't Roll the Dice on Wall Street
06/13/2006 Bernanke Scares Pavlov's Sheep
05/08/2006 Dollars on Sale - 30% Off
04/03/2006 Existential Equity Extraction and Six Months to Housing Hell
01/09/2006 Beyond Keynes to Inflation
11/14/2005 When Profits Go Poof!
10/06/2005 Squeezing Americans Dry
09/09/2005 Inflation Raising Its Ugly Head
08/18/2005 Slaughter of the Housing Speculators
08/03/2005 Big Journeys Begin With Small Steps
07/07/2005 Goodbye Middle Class; Hello House Poor
06/06/2005 Death of the Carry Trade
05/11/2005 Keep Your Stash in Cash
04/04/2005 America's Tribute
02/27/2005 Hotel "Debt" California
01/26/2005 Will Central Banks Ever Say No to America?
01/19/2005 Why The World Loves America's Deficits
12/28/2004 Inflation Disinformation
12/03/2004 Home Values Bought on Rotten Foundations for Realty Reality

BIOGRAPHY

Richard Benson is a widely-published author on securitization and specialty finance, and a sought-after speaker at financing conferences on raising equity for mid-market companies. Before founding the Specialty Finance Group in 1989, Mr. Benson acted as a trading desk economist for Chase Manhattan Bank in the early 1980s, started in the securitization business in 1983 at Bear Steams, and helped build the early securitization businesses at Citibank and E F Hutton. Mr. Benson graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1970 in the Honors Program in Math, and did his doctoral work in Economics at Harvard University. He is a member of the Harvard Club of New York and Palm Beach. The Specialty Finance Group, LLC is a Florida Limited Liability Company and is registered with the FINRA/SIPC as a Broker/Dealer.

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