David Einhorn, the head of Greenlight Capital, caused quite a stir at the Ira W. Sohn Investment Research Conference last year. He made it known that he was shorting Lehman Brothers, which was trading at $60 at the time. You know the rest of the story.

It's no surprise that people, including a columnist for the New York Post, were interested in what he had to say at the conference this year. He didn't deliver the same sort of shocker. Rather, he offered a sober analysis of the Obama Administration's performance. He basically thinks that the focus on propping up banks hasn't really done much to the economy as a whole. This was a theme that other participants picked up on. For the record, one speaker was extremely bullish on Bank of America. All in all, the conference drew over 1,200 people and raised $4 million for cancer centers. 

For more:
- here's the article
- here's a round up from Barron's

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