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- The Financial Crisis Explained [view article]
- Added Liquidity Part of the Problem, Not the Solution [view article]
- It's the Capital, Not Liquidity, Stupid [view article]
- Short Cut to Profits? A Closer Look at Inverse Funds [view article]
- Paulson and Bernanke: A Conspiracy of Dunces [view article]
- SKF Regaining Its Old Form? [view article]
- Paulson, Bush and the Grifters: The Manufacturing of a Crisis [view article]
- Risk Management and Concentrated Positions [view article]
- Financial Bottom Calls: Gambling, Plain and Simple [view article]
- Capitalism Applies to Everyone - Including Big Business [view article]
- Putting the Perception and Reality of the Financial Crisis Into Perspective [view article]
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- It's the Capital, Not Liquidity, Stupid
- Added Liquidity Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
- While Wall Street Sells: Why Banks Are a Buy
- Paulson and Bernanke: A Conspiracy of Dunces
- Time for the FDIC to Raise Limits on Insured Deposits
- SKF Regaining Its Old Form?
- Capitalism Applies to Everyone - Including Big Business
- Short Cut to Profits? A Closer Look at Inverse Funds
- Putting the Perception and Reality of the Financial Crisis Into Perspective
- Financial Bottom Calls: Gambling, Plain and Simple
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Sector Relative Strength: Energy and Financials [view article]
"The more likely explanation, however, is that nothing moves in a straight line......f energy stocks are in the beginning of a long-term downtrend, you can expect to see several short term rallies."Thank you! It made absolutely no sense that the market **just woke up** and noticed the issues between the US and Russia....
Similarly, at the third week of every month, the newscasters seem amazed that the market is in turmoil.... Helloooooo... Options expirations....
jegan ;-) Reply
SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
Legitimate short sellers fear that a new rule would shut down their activity is completely unfounded. It's a red herring, a smokescreen for the thievery that is naked short selling. It's astounding that just now, after reams of data have been collected by independent groups on the deleterious effects of naked shorting, that the SEC is just now waking up to the financial terrorism wreaked in our markets through this unregulated practice. I'm skeptical; I'll believe such a rule is enacted when I see it. But it can't happen quickly enough. ReplySEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
All existing laws on short sales just need to be enforced.NO shorts sales without delivery!!!! Reply
SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
Disclosure. Disclosure. Disclusure. Any activity that is done in the dark without anyone watching will enable illegal activities- same reason you leave your front porch light on at night; people are less likely to rob you when their actions are illuminated.SEC, turn on the lights. Reply
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SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
let's hope they put a strict rule in place asap.> jack Reply
SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
I agree with Archman - this SEC action is because they are being told to prop the stock market up at all costs.My guess is that it may provide a short lived rally, but longer term the fundamentals of this market are utterly terribly, and it will take alot more govt intervention than this in order to prop them up. Reply
The Current Financial Crisis: 100 Year Storm? [view article]
I have put together a list of banks that may fail and go bankrupt.You can view it at my blog.
bankruptbanks.blogspot.../
Thank You. Reply
SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
For those who have been following me, I am no proponent of short selling (naked or not) as I deem it the most non-value adding activity in the market and does not add to creating value/jobs and sustainable value in the long term. I certainly hope that SEC new rules will include disclosure of all short positions, disclosure of long positions lending out their scrips and also a fair mechanism in pricing scrip lending. At least, this way, so called 'legitimate' short sellers building huge positions will be exposed and precious management time of companies will be better utilised entertaining the right people. ReplySEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
Naked shorting is a problem and yes it should be dealt with.However, lets get to the "real" reason the SEC wants a "broad" short sale rule.
Behind closed doors they are being told by our corrupt government and our FED to reign in "all" short selling in order to keep the markets afloat. Period. We are in an election year. We cant have the nation being to miserable thanks to the criminals on Wall Street and the greedy bankers who helped to bankrupt the system.
Anyone who thinks that the SEC is acting in the "best" interest of investors, or acting as if they are trying to do "the right thing" needs to wake up and remember what Wall Street is. A Ponzi, marketing scheme, where once you understand what Wall Street is about, you can do quite well.
Anything they do that affects the true free market system of our markets is only going to undermine the integrity of those markets and make people less willing to invest in markets they know are corrupt and manipulated. Reply
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SEC Considering 'Market-Wide' Short Sale Rule [view article]
I seriously hope the SEC can stop naked shorting without messing up the market. It is obvious that naked shorting isnt responsible for the state of the financial sector. But a lot of companies across the board are being destroyed by naked shorting. The SEC never seemed to care about it before, and they surely know that they can't help the banks. So one has to wonder what compels them to act now. I guess they all made enough money? ReplyThe Current Financial Crisis: 100 Year Storm? [view article]
And when they say here in Seattle that our San Juan fault is overdue for it's 100 year slip......yikes, that's a LONG earthquake!Disclosure: sarcasm intended; ditto Al Reply
_me_Al
The Current Financial Crisis: 100 Year Storm? [view article]
Georealist, you totally missed the point. The author is referring to one in a hundred (and one in fifty) year events. That is, events of a given severity have a one percent (or two percent) chance of happening in the next year. More severe events happen less frequently ...get it?Reply
The Current Financial Crisis: 100 Year Storm? [view article]
I think he means a "one in a hundred year" or "one in a fifty year" event... right? I don't think he means that the event will LAST 100 or 50 years... ReplyThe Current Financial Crisis: 100 Year Storm? [view article]
The 100 year is a "depression"... think? If Japan had one of these 50 year whoppers then it must have started in 1958....Please, if your going to go hysteric on us at least get the math right. Typical Alpha garbage..... ReplyLathrop
Financials: How - And When - We Reached the Bottom [view article]
On July 22, 2008, UYG closed at 22.60.On August 19, 2008, it closed at 19.23.
With zero transaction or commission costs, that's a decline of 14.91 percent.
Hey, maybe tomorrow will be a better day. Then again, maybe it won't.
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