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Time To Start Buying Some Dogs?

Somethimes when you go bottom fishing you get hoooked

NYSE Short Interest Hits Another Record High

Can anyone quantify the effect on the short interest figure of the 130/30 funds ?

Juiced Earnings and Fanciful Figures

It seems pretty clear that many contracts are going to be renegotiated as the payors will simply not be able to fulfill their obligations in both the piblic and private sectors.

Not Your Father’s Credit Crunch

Good article but there is a lot more driving Natural Gas demand than just using it to produce ethanol. It is still at an historical low to crude on a BTU basis (6:1). I doubt that BP and COp would consider the just announced very costly pipeline if the main driver of demand was only ethanol.

Combating Financial Illiteracy

I agree with your points but feel that it is more than just literacy as the we are wired to go for the easy, emotinally comfortable choice. Also more transparency and risk disclosure by the vendors would make it easier for the customer to know better what was being offered.

Have Recent Crises Blown a Hole Through Modern Financial Theory?

The notion that there is a big difference between the real world and the academic neo classical hypothesis of how it is are does not seem very new...why all the surprises ?

Bearish Bloggers Too Optimistic!

Sammyg123

In Taleb's book "The Black Swan" fat tails refers to the distribution of events i.e. not a Bell or Gausian curve model but an outlier rather than to their duration as you suggested above. Otherwise I am afraid that I am with you 100%

$2 Trillion of Petrodollars Looking for a Home

Good point

Time for Nuclear Energy and Uranium Stocks to Shine?

Vaduz,

Go to etfconnect.com and you will find theinfo you are looking for.