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    • Fri Nov 14th 15:39 PM | Rating: +1 0
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      The Right Kind of Bailout
      In a perfect world that isn't already in crisis because of the Wall Street mess, Shelby woudl be right - let the auto's collapse and trust that the capital markets will fund a new, smaller and nimbler industry. But wait - the capital markets are's working now, so that woudl be an incredibly stupid thing to do woudln't it?

      The auto industry needs an industry-wide horoic solution to the non competative legacy beneftis package that keeps dragging them down. Something like the rairoad retirement system that was established early in last century to resolve the legacy rairoad pension system.

      The auto industry was THE significant driver in creating the post-WW II midle class. Think of the increase in the number of cars per capita over thr past 50 years and the establishment of the great American surban landscape. For better or worse, auto's were the driver, and the country can't just discard the aging workforce that was at the heart of this process.

      Solution: a prepackaged reorganization of the entire industry that begins with a nationalized auto retirement system (income and health insurance), funded over a long future period by profit participation from the new unfettered re-capitalized businesses. Force the UAW to accept a radically restured work environment and wage structure in return for full government guarentees of the auto retirement system.

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    • Fri Oct 24th 10:31 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Comcast Looks Incredibly Cheap
      Crappy dividend. Another baseball card.
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    • Thu Oct 23rd 11:07 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Understanding Credit Default Swaps: A Case for Regulation
      Imagine a market that would allow you to buy life insurance on a randomly selected individual. In fact, if you go back a hundred or more years, that market existed and lead to a fair amount of abuse as could well be imagined (like buying insurance on someone and then nudging them towards dangerous activities). The life insurance market evolved so that today you cannot purchase insurance on someone when you don't have an insurable interest in seeing them continue to be alive on this good earth.

      It would seem to make perfect sense to limit CDS purchases using some sorrt of dynamic insurable interest standard that would limit the size of the CDS market to the amount of the investments being insured, and would require that an entity buying and holding a CDS has an ongoing equivalent insurable interest in the underlying security that is being insured through the CDS.
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    • Mon Oct 20th 10:57 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Credit Default Swaps, Part One: Origins and Implementations
      If principal risk can be fully insured via a vibrant CDS market, why should there be a yield difference amongst corporate bonds with differnt credit grades, and for that matter why should coporate yields be significantly higher than Treasury yields?
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    • Sat Oct 18th 12:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Fundamental Valuation: How Low Could We Go?
      It doesn't make any sense to look a price vs. book without interest rate context. For example, today risk-free long Treasuries are yielding half what they were in the early 1980's. Hence all other things being equal, current PE ratios could be twice what they were in the early 80's without being particulary out of wack.
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    • Mon Oct 13th 20:11 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Financial Crisis: The Blaming of the Nerds
      Where do these people (the ones who state with absolute authority that ACORN is an ant iAmerican organization) come from?

      I'm actually quite worried that there will be a neo-con reactionary backlash after Obama wins that could push the US into a very unpleasant state.
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    • Thu Oct 9th 15:12 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Longs are Getting Squeezed
      So today they are shorting everyghing else. We are in a race to the bottom driven by unbridled short interest. Think about it for a moment: If a stock float is 100 shares, one can borrow all 100 shares and sell them inot the market, thereby inflating the float by 100%.

      Our financial system cannot stand the waterfall effect of doubling the available shares of every stock one by one, which appears to be what is happening. The end game will be to starve all companies of new capital (can't sell new shares to expand if your stock has been driven down 50% by short sellers.)

      What a great outcome for our country.
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    • Thu Oct 9th 10:30 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Did Derivatives Cause the Crisis?
      Felix, I'm puzzled by the notion that $1T of bad mortgage paper is worse that $65T of wildly gyrating CDS paper.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 13:29 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bailout Datapoint of the Day, AIG Edition
      I though ther terms of the bail out required AIG to pay interest on the $85B even if they didn't draw it down. Thsu they woudl be stupid not to draw it an invest it to try to at least break even.
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    • Fri Oct 3rd 13:26 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Hedge Funds Eat Their Young
      An extremely elegant solution!
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    • Tue Sep 30th 11:58 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why Have Things Gone So Wrong?
      Very well said. It is quite amazing to see the total lack of intellectual honesty employed by Paulson et al in trying to sell this plan to the American people. They either thought Americans are dumb as bricks, or thought that folks still believe that the current government leadership "knows" what the right action is and will actualy do the right thing. Wrong on both counts!
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    • Tue Sep 23rd 16:13 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Why Punish the Whistle Blower?
      Legitimate short selling fills an investment need. Short selling without a legitimate borrow is destabilizing and shoudl be stopped immediately. There should be full and immediate disclosure of short selling data above a resonable threshhold (who, how much) by stock, exactly parrallell to long data that should also be fully and immedialty available.
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    • Tue Sep 23rd 10:38 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Real Wall Street Doesn't Deserve to Be Ruined
      If joe six pack investor is thrown under the bus in the name of consequence purity, there will be blood in the streets. Do not assume that just because we have not seen a violent uprising in this country since the Civil War that Americans are not capable of taking the law into their own hands in a big way. Think food riots, think massive failure to pay any and all bills, think the end of capitalism as we have known it for the past 50 years.

      Get smart and get real - as ugly as it is, Paulson's bailout is the only chance we have to keep the banking buisness from going over a cliff.
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    • Thu Sep 18th 17:04 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      RTC: Creating a Big Bad Bank
      Fantastic idea! The government ends up buying mortage paper that is valued at 50% on the $ due to the flawed valuation models that were forced on the markets by the thin ABX index. Three years from now we will all be shocked to find that actual forcloures are running at half the rate expected today, the govermnent will make money habd over fist, and the IB's will all cry fould that they don't get any of the upside!
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    • Fri Sep 12th 13:08 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Debating the Lehman Collapse
      "No one has ever cited a single example where an otherwise solvent firm was brought down by speculators / short sellers. A strong solvent firm (or country) has numerous easy ways to fight any short selling. "

      Hmm. Seems to me that buyers of firms shorted to death (Countrywide, Bear, Indymac,Leh...) won't have any reason to communciate post ante that the buyee was acually in great shape, so the above statement is fairly silly.
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