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By Patrick Clark 7/16/12 11:55am

Rest In Peace

Shannon on Biggs

Market Forecaster Barton Biggs Dead at 79

Barton Biggs, former Morgan Stanley chief global strategist and much-admired market prognosticator, died on Saturday at the age of 79, according to a memo sent to Morgan Stanley employees.

Mr. Biggs began his career in finance at E.F. Hutton in 1961, and started one of the first hedge funds, Fairfield Partners, four years Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 2/11/02 12:00am

Grumpy Old Bart, Happy at Last-Now the World Knows He Was Right all Along

In August 2000, Barton Biggs-global strategist of Morgan Stanley

and a man widely pilloried for failing to embrace the New Economy-debated James

K. Glassman, the author of the Net-loving treatise Dow 36,000 , in Sun Valley, the Idaho plutocrat’s playground.

Following the debate, the audience voted on the winner. Mr.

Glassman took it in Read More

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