Joe Rotger

Inequality and the Credit Crisis

I'm always surprised to read that Bernanke's rescue and money supply watering of the financial credit meltdown are so morally inadequate.
The alternatives are best viewed by the little dutch boy story, whom seeing the leak in the dam left it alone, ...it would promote shoddy construction in the future and people in the valley should know better. Well, they all died, including the morally prude...
Especially, when considering that the author does recollect the gilded age, which mirrored the ongoing credit crisis and ended so apocalyptically...
Fortunately, Bernanke is at the helm of the Fed in this mess.

Forget Gold - What About Cobalt? Indium?

Amen.

Corn Ethanol: Something Is Fundamentally Flawed

Yesterday I heard from a friend, "When it doesn't make sense, there's probably something else underneath, tax related probably". How about: moving away into a new form of agricultural subsidy to curtail complaints from emerging countries (free markets is a one way street), or that it's politically correct to protect your farmer constituents, or that the big agros have good lobbying...

Joe

Tracking Money Flow in Dow Jones Industrial Stocks

Brett,
Great chart.
Could it be that the big oil XOMs and the like are losing ground to governmental cos around the world, a reflection of a poor future in reserves?
And, I wonder how HD is doing in China, or maybe investors are factoring its success?
Joe

How Can Hedge Funds Market Themselves to a Baffled Public?

Hedge funds are coming closer to the public to... well... go public.
Could it be that the rats are abandoning a sinking ship?