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    • Mon Nov 10th 01:41 AM | Rating: 0 -2
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      The Chickens of Irresponsibility Come Home to Roost Under Obama's Reign
      So Dr P's argument is that Obama should not call a spade a spade when by any measure China is manipulating its currency by making it unrealistically cheap in order to help encourage exports and discourage imports because to be honest about it would hurt the ability of multinationals to make more money? This is the same logic that Pelosi and Reid gave for not impeaching Bush and Cheeney. They wanted to win an election at all costs regardless of the odoriferous murder of the constitution by these two and their henchmen. We have to have honest politicians and not let a myth like free trade, or the concept of profits or the uber corporate mentality that has just killed Americas economically for 10 years displace the honest actions that must be first spoken and then taken.

      China is a communist country for goodness stake. Are we to pull our punches because they are the second largest foreign holder of American debt or a buyer of products made by U.S. based multinationals?

      By the way Dr. P's use of the words 'American multinationals' might be a contradiction in terms. Once they become multinationals their economic loyalty is still to America? No, arguably their loyalty is to profits no matter where they are to be found or what impact their policies have on the U.S. morally or politically. If they can manipulate the system to buy or intimidate politicians and a presidency to facilitate their corporate power and profitability, that is just par for the game in the U.S.

      Time for a change. A big change. A tilt away from the disastrous economic conditions brought about by a lack of regulation and presidential/corporate... stupidity, and back to a balance wherein our political and moral values are in harmony with a vital and confident economy.
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    • Mon Sep 29th 01:12 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      The Real Reason Lawmakers Are Rushing Out a Bailout Plan
      Looking ahead of this particular financial fiasco, and since one cannot trust anybody at the fed., treasury, congress, wall street or the WH, what is the next hammer to be dropped on the taxpayers? Will this country be so 'fortunate' as to see this 700B solve the biggest of the frauds so far perpetuated on the American taxpayer - or, how much more of the fruits of greed and mismanagement is there to come and what is the next bail out they will be "...rushing out."
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    • Fri Sep 26th 13:48 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Regardless of a Bailout, US Economy is Decelerating
      This debt ridden society needs to change course. No bailout for Wall Street. Under intelligent scrutiny, let the cards fall where they may and start encouraging American workers, corporations, and politicians to buy only what they need and can afford without relying on debt markets funded by foreigners with all that relationship implies. Identify and punish all those responsible for CDS's CDO's etc. and set forth a lesson understood by Sir Isaac Newton himself. More deceleration? Certainly! Necessary? Certainly. Probably better to take the economic medicine now than later.
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    • Fri Sep 26th 01:48 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      What Credit Crunch?
      Row5 seems to have something useful to say but it is so long, complex, and seemingly convoluted that I for one cannot keep track of the thread. Could you please reduce it to about 5 sentences without acronyms and in plain talk?
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    • Thu Sep 25th 02:32 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      A Proposed Admirable Response to the Crisis
      And if your plan went through and you were and over paid executive with billions to possibly bring back, would you in fact bring it back to a country that is on the verge of a financial melt down? One that has allowed a financtical right wing white house and congress to destroy responsible governmental oversight and encouraged the "ownership society" for the few and the XE$^ with the other 98% may of whom believed and tried - but failed to become owners.?

      I'd eschew the U.S.A. for a while but what the heck do I know.

      Foreign tax credits? At least for some individuals, there can be a cap on tax credits for foreign taxes paid and one can end up paying taxes to two countries on the same income.

      Hey how about that GS stock jumping up just before the Buffet investment was announced? Think there was some insider trading maybe a la Bear? This is what is wrong with America. The SEC and the FBI are sound asleep. Shhhh don't waken them. Give Pauly our 750 B and watch the greedmasters find a way to profit from it in ways not intended by congress. "So far the government response has been credible; even impressive." Yeah sure. Where there is so little trust in financial institutions, and in government the responses you praise are only putting band aids on problems that should never have been allowed to develop. It isn't "impressive" it is purely a series of desperate reactions to a snowballing crisis.
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    • Mon Sep 15th 03:37 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Selling Short America and the Rest of the World
      We elected the politicians who long ago knew the CDO's and other types of debt multiplication schemes were time bombs. We elected the President and indirectly all his men such as Greenspan. We elected the House and the Senate.

      These voters by and large depend on the government to protect their retirement investments from "ponzi" schemes, 'ownership societies' unwise trading practices, naked short selling, poorly managed lenders like F and F. From hedge funds and private equity firms gone wild. The SEC, the FBI the Justice Department, the inspector generals of the various agencies have not done their job to protect the average citizen investor who does not have a PhD in stealth investing from Harvard, or maybe and MBA from Chicago specializing in computer programs to determine just how much shorting is required to destroy a good corporation. Or, on a grander scale, who is protecting the average citizen from a mushrooming government debt that some smart people think is going to destroy the dollar? So John Q investor the little guy who buys a stock or a mutual fund or an index and hopes it will be higher in a decade or two is getting his life blood drained out of him by he government debt on one side and in a variety of opaque stock manipulations on the other - both of which are beyond the keen of the little guy who might be a physician or a chemist or an electrician or a teacher or an assembly line worker at some plant (if any are left that have not been shipped to China). You cannot expect the little guy investor to understand what is being done to him/her and those doings it just love these circumstances. Did anybody notice the put activity in Bear just before the public announcement by Paulson? These potentially criminal activities happens with such regularity it makes Michael Douglas actually look like a financial saint.

      Agencies and elected officials have not instituted a regulatory capability to discourage the substantial undermining of the American financial system which we have seen in the last few years. Even little investor's access to the courts have been greatly undermined by mandatory arbitration 'agreements.' And the reason for all this could be that the corporations and the rich (including the foreign rich) have bought the former democracy that was America. The politicians are owned by the corporations and lobbyists. Every single law enforcement or regulatory agency suffers from politicization which is a corollary of bought and paid for executive and legislative branchs. The country as a whole thinks America is on the wrong track. One likely reason is that what they think the country is, isn't.
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    • Mon Sep 15th 00:20 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      An Optimist Looks at the Market
      Nyka U vry right. Based on yur old learnin. Jst as the old rules of financial integrity r out the window and the nu gred smothers r collective futures, so r the old ruls of English gne. New English rul 1: the objective of writing is to communicate not follow the rul book. X: Incomplete sentences communicate very well if used intelligently. New financial rul: 1: until the mutiple wrongdoers causing this financial Ike/Katrina are enmasse prosecuted, jailed for longer than was Milkin and forced to give back every thing they and thr families own or have thy will do it agn. And agn. No pain no gain. Did anybody read Norris's McTeague?
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    • Sat May 31st 03:11 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Friday Outlook: Commodities, Emerging Markets
      More thinking per inch on my monitor's screen than practically anywhere else.
      Pure populist nosiness I suppose, but archman (no kin) sparked my curiosity. How do we find out how much Jim, Maria, Michelle, Neal, Erin etc. make and the value of all those perks archman refers to? Disclosure: Long GE (but regretting it.)
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    • Wed May 7th 00:28 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Saut: Are We Entering a New Kind of Investment Environment?
      The synergys of continuing a concoction of diverse businesses at GE are not as apparent as their value as independent companies spun of to stockholders (not sold off). How about a chance to own the number one wind energy source producer or jet engines? As it made sense for the consolidation by Welsh and maybe Immelt, now does it make sense to engage in a new paradigm? Ten years to wait for results is too long. Like MSFT, GE is lost in a time warp. GE do not take this as an opportunity to explain yourself better, take it as an opportunity to profitably disintegrate. Saut advises caution? If you keep on doing what you have been doing you will get what you have been getting.
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    • Thu May 1st 00:43 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      No Uptick Rule: A Convenient Scapegoat?
      HG: How about you take on Cramer's view on another SEC failure- where short sellers sell short without actually borrowing the stock? And is the demise of the uptick rule and seling short without actually borrowing the underlying stock to do so related in your mind?
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    • Mon Apr 7th 00:28 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bottom Pickers, Rejoice: Opportunity Lies Next Year
      So, Steve, if Krause is off by a year his long term investment advice to wait is off as well. By your account does it mean long term investors are already too late given the market's action foretelling the (coming spike in) defaults by a year as you suggest? (I realize you were not providing investment guidance based on this data)
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    • Sat Apr 5th 02:49 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Payrolls Drop - And You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
      Reading the above comments: healthy cynicism, uncertainty, fear, governmental incompetence caused by its leadership, spinning Lien, not feeling anybody else's pain except your own. all sorts of negative emotions. Any wonder over 81% of us think we are headed in the wrong direction? And one wonders. Can elation that bushboy is gone turn to more cynicism when it is discovered that the kindly democrats have no magic machine to spit out all the right answers to what we should do next on so many inherited and prospective problems?
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    • Sat Apr 5th 02:24 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Number of Companies Raising Dividends Continues to Fall
      Need more info. How about a metric representing the probablity of an increase for some of the ones most likely to increase the dividend and how much percentage wise that increase might be? Winnow the 7000 down to a few to consider for purchase. Wonder if the list contains good foreign company dividend payers?
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    • Fri Apr 4th 01:46 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Now is the Time to Buy Long-Term
      Sure, Vahan, buy long term but after this crisis, and the student loan crisis is competed. While waiting, wait until the credit card crisis is competed as well as several others. What crises you say? Well apparently some of the Dr. Senator Phil Grahams deregulating sharpshooters, investment banks, brokerage house, hedge fund geniuses played the same games with these debts as they did with mortgages. Some say they have been Houdinized as well. Buy long term indeed. But not now.

      To do now: find a clever way to in effect sell short the current values of these loans wherever and whatever they may now be because like a few smart guys raked it in by figuring the values of mortgage debt and related instrument guarantees (certainly not 'insurance') were going down, down, you may want to bet on the possibility that the same thing is going to happen to other debt classes.

      The slow moving roller coaster is at the top of the bell curve and there is a real fun 45 degree downward spiral dead ahead. Find the next equivalent of credit default swaps and/ or ABX shorts which Paulson did and reap billions?

      Paulson thinks it isn't over yet according to Fast Money. Maybe not according to Golden slacks either? When it is, only then invest long term. Ask hamburger loving Warren whether your investment dollar is liable to go a lot further. A lot.
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    • Fri Mar 14th 12:56 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Goldman's $200 Oil Call and the Hurricane Premium Theory
      Wondering what measurable and significant steps the Bush administration has accomplished in the last eight, count 'em, eight years towards reducing American reliance on oil? Or is that a dumb question? Good reason to buy leaps, buy oil sands, buy enpix, buy just about anything that is honestly run and has substantial in the ground oil and gas assets. Cover your downside with a nice dividend. Does monster oceanic PBR oil find change the equation at all short term or long term? Do hurricanes hit off the coast of Brazil? Or is that a question for 2015.
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