CNBC, 08/19/09, Doug Kass is slight short, It's better to lose opportunity than capital at this time

CNBC's Squawk Box with Joe Kernen, Becky Quick and Carl Quintanilla, Aug 19, 2009.

Douglas Kass is the founder and President of Seabreeze Partners Management, Inc., a hedge fund.

Here is info about Doug Kass from his website.

http://www.seabreezepartners.net/team.asp

Douglas Kass is the founder and President of Seabreeze Partners Management, Inc., which is also the General Partner of Seabreeze Partners Short, L.P.
From 2003-04 he served as the portfolio manager and principal of Demours Capital Management, LLC, which was the general partner and investment manager of Circle T Market Neutral Fund, L.P. and Circle T Market Neutral Offshore Fund, Ltd.

From 2001-2004 he was General Partner of Seabreeze Partners L.P. and from 1997-2003 Kass was the General Partner of Kass Partners, LLC, the predecessor firm to Kass Partners, Ltd., which was founded in 1997.

From 1995-96, he was senior portfolio manager at Omega Advisors, a $4 billion investment partnership. Before that he was executive senior vice president and director of institutional equities at JW Charles/CSG (1993-95) and First Albany (1991-93).

Kass was the General Partner of DAK Securities, an investment partnership, from 1985-90. During 1984 he was a General Partner of Jakobson Kass Partners LP.

From 1978-83 he was a General Partner of Glickenhaus & Co (1978-83), and served as a vice president - analyst and economist - of Putnam Management (1974-78).

Kass started his investment career as a housing analyst at Kidder, Peabody in 1972.

Kass received his bachelor's from Alfred University and received his MBA in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 1972.

He co-authored "Citibank: The Ralph Nader Report" with Ralph Nader and the Center for the Study of Responsive Law and currently serves as a guest host on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

Kass is the principal contributor to TheStreet.com's Street Insight and has lectured on short selling at Harvard Business School, Yale University's Graduate School of Management and at Seton Hall University.

Kass has been interviewed in and has written numerous articles for Barrons including several cover stories and editorials. He has also been quoted in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Post and in many other newspapers around the world. Kass is a frequent guest on CNBCs Jim Cramers Mad Money, Lou Dobbs Moneyline, and Bloomberg TV.

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[Kasshater]

wrong again. why does this guy get so much TV time...promoter looser

[pretorious700]

Doug Kass is an idiot