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5 Reasons Why the $700B Bailout Could Translate to $250 Oil

I think your timing for this article was kind of poor. Perhaps you should have waited until late February to write this.

The Ponzi I-banks and various speculative commodity hedge funds are no longer propping up the price of oil anymore.
While I do believe that peak oil is coming very soon - within the next 5 years, I've also noticed lately that all the SUVs are disappearing at my condo complex and are being replaced with tiny fuel sipping cars.

Your premise that a $700 billion bailout is going to cause massive inflation is weak IMO. ALL the countries around the world are slowing down and will inevitably lower their interest rates, thus most of them will be matching our inflation/deflation in certain assets and commodities $s.

Positive Divergences Continue to Stack Up

I think a big bear market rally is coming over the next 3-4 weeks.

Can Hank Paulson Lead?

The huge Visa IPO this year was obviously a cash-out for those genius Visa execs who saw this calamity coming years ago.

This stock market is becoming more of a Ponzi Scheme everyday.

Can Hank Paulson Lead?

This bailout will be closer to at least double the advertised $700 billion.
Commercial real estate and credit cards are next.

Paulson and the FED know this, but play dumb. 9 months ago, Paulson was saying that houses weren't overvalued...

Morgan Stanley: Exploding the Short-Seller Myth

Why do the banks issue stock shares in the first place? IMO, bank stocks are worthless. They're already/destined to be nationalized.

Shouldn't insolvent bank stocks be trading at $0?

Should We Try Congestion Pricing for Security Trades?

It's too difficult for CEOs to cash out of their options when the market is collapsing...

Banning short sales is equal to banning the redistribution of wealth. Very wealthy conservatives love this new rule, while the other 99.9% of us that are relatively poor shake our heads at this obviously rigged, market cronyism.

We've Crossed the Line from Capitalism to Socialism

What we needed was CEOs like Paulson not to create Ponzi schemes like CDOs and SIVs in the first place this past decade. Paulson is the problem, he was one of the biggest players who created it. Now Paulson is the global economic dictator - declaring who will go bankrupt and who won't. Of course Goldman Scams will be saved by Paulson...

Hank Paulson, Buy-Sider

Goldman Scams was 3 days away from elimination, then magically Paulson steps in and declares that "all banks must be saved". He eliminates GS's competition: BSC, ML, and LEH. Paulson is a great friend/judge to have at a witch trial.

Our economy is a stacked poker deck. Cronyism is pushing all of our chips to the corrupt.

Paulson and Goldman Scams represent everything that is wrong with the U.S. economy. Disgusting. Under the table handshakes lead to more bailouts for the little guy to pay out. Nothing will change.

Lehman's Collapse: Broader Economic Damage Unlikely

With no more Wall Street banks - property values in New York City are going to start plummeting...feeding the fire...

Lehman's Collapse: Broader Economic Damage Unlikely

Historically, the average bear market decline = 36%. We haven't even hit that average decline yet. The SnP500 would need to hit 1000 just to make that average decline.

On average, there are typically 2 bear markets a decade.

This isn't your average bear market.

The entire banking system may need to be nationalized.

GDP and the Decline of National Statistics

I hope the government can do something with the data on jobs. Losing 50,000 jobs a month is very disheartening...

Obama Is Bad for the Economy - Barron's

Republicans all know that creating a massive amount of debt leads to gains in productivity.
People would just relax and retire if they didn't have debts to repay.
It will be important for our grandchildren to be very, very productive.

Smallcap Stocks: Regaining Their Mojo?

Sounds like from your facts that the rally is very close to an end...

Middle of August is not the best time to go long anything.

Getting More Constructive on Crude Oil

Goldman Scams and Morgan Stanley, along with their subsidiary hedge funds control energy prices. If you want to play a poker game with a stacked deck, trade oil with them.

I love how Goldman upgraded oil services about 4 weeks ago when oil services had just hit the peak in its obvious trading range.

Goldman would stab your grandma in the back if it were profitable...

Bill Miller on This Tough Market

Warren Buffet also said this current downturn would be much longer than most people think it will be.

The U.S. is in a secular bear market until 2016. Has been a bear market since 2000.
You have to make good trades to make $ in this kind of market. Buy and hold may or may not beat inflation.