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Sheila Bair Has a Point About Private Equity

or....the gov. could mandate a minimum amount of equity a pe firm puts in if they buy a bank. Oh, wait.....I guess if they did that then you wouldn't have an article to write about for your shameless self-promotion and I wouldn't have to point out the obvious to you via this comment. if you don't have any insight into anything you should probably stay away from writing because your self-promotion becomes that much more obvious.

Earnings Preview: Gymboree

and?

Look Around - The Credit Crunch Has Arrived

Good morning, Mark! Where have you been? Seriously!

The Advantages of Short Selling

"There has to be an applicable symmetry to your investment process, otherwise you are deluding yourself that you can pick "winners", if you can't pick relative "losers" as well." This is one part but you must consider the payoffs as well: shorting gives you a maximum gain of 100% and maximum loss of unlimited, with a long position being the reverse. Given the payoffs, it actually makes more sense to focus on being long.

First Solar Q4 2007 Conference Call - Visualization

It's pretty annoying, actually. A quicker way to find stuff in a conference call is "ctrl+F". Actually, the way now present conference call transcripts is even worse. Instead of listing the entire call on one page you have to click through 10+ pages now. Did you do that in order to get more advertisers (i.e. you can list a separate advertiser on each page) or are you just trying to piss off your customer base?

Option Expiration Week: Tuesday Generally Most Volatile

pretty graph, though

Option Expiration Week: Tuesday Generally Most Volatile

great. how does this help us?

The Fed's Xmas Gift: A Market Rally

wow, that's more useless than bespoke's comments

The Fed's Xmas Gift: A Market Rally

wow, that's more useless than bespoke's comments

Kill These ETFs, Now

only people who post anonymously dare bash others....get the irony? why would you buy something w/ such a huge premium to the NAV. You don't make sense.

Thursday's Nasdaq/S&P 500 Spread Widest Since '03

umm, how does this help us?

Garmin Gaps Down on Earnings, Likely to Continue Falling

another mind-blowing post from Bespoke!

Percentage of Stocks Above Their 50-DMAs Falls Below 50%

and how is this even remotely relevant?

Book Review: 'Active Value Investing' by Vitaliy Katsenelson

not sure if I want to take advice from someone w/ that track record

Black Monday Remembered: Buying Opportunity of a Lifetime

And this helps us how? Where do I find this magical time machine to go back and do that? C'mon!