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U.S. Dollar Hits Year Lows Against Risky Currencies

With UUP down as much as it already is, we may see some bounce to the value of the dollar, before we go lower,(chart here tinyurl.com/p5umqc )

China and Brazil to Ditch U.S. Dollar? Hardly

tinyurl.com/p5umqc chart of UUP is helping me figure out when to expect major loss of value in the US dollar. The December lows are very important.

Why This Economic Crisis Won't Pass Quickly or Painlessly

agreed and on a federal level we have done the same. tinyurl.com/qruklc those charts are telling me it's treasuries that are the easiest short.

Inflation Ahead: What's an Investor to Do?

yeah, eventually people will not see treasuries as a flight to safety tinyurl.com/qruklc

According to the NY Post, Warren Buffett (BRK.A) recently restructured his infamous derivative contracts by selling a "significantly larger number" of 10-year contracts than the original 18-year transaction. Meaning the risk of loss has increased, but only if markets decline from current levels and stay there.

Risk is there. saying "the risk of loss has increased, but only if markets decline from current levels and stay there. " is like saying "my trading is not risky, unless it loses money."

Job Numbers from the Bureau of Spurious Statistics

Cetin, I am not sure I would call it a conspiracy. It's just that a bunch of guys that come up with government statistics have it in their interest to make things sound about 20-30% brighter than it is.

I don't view the government as a big nasty conspiracy. I think it's a bunch of kinda dumb PR reps who know that it's easier to print money and try to speak positively than it is to actually sort the mess out.

New York Fed Chairman Stephen Friedman resigns, effective immediately, although NY Fed's general counsel says Friedman's Goldman Sachs (GS) stock purchases didn't violate any rules. (PR)

I think this falls under the category of insider trading.

Warren Buffett (BRK.A) says he'd love to buy Wells Fargo (WFC), but can't get regulators to agree. Which puzzles Mike Shedlock. "To not let a well capitalized company like Berkshire Hathaway acquire a bank when banks are clearly struggling to raise more capital makes no sense."

That is a line. No one should believe that crap!

Solar Industry's Long Term Outlook

FSLR chart with comments since the gap tinyurl.com/d4z54r

The Wisdom of Half Positions

Yes, let us play the Martingale

Rough day for homebuilder Lennar (LEN). Shares fell 18.6% after it disclosed it's being sued over China-manufactured drywall it used in 2005-2006 which may emit various sulfur-based gases. LEN also filed to sell up to $275M in shares to increase working capital and repay debt.

who the heck is stupid enough to buy a single dollar of their 275 million offering? I am tempted to find out who is buying the offering and short them.

Wells Fargo's (WFC) biggest stakeholder (BRK.A) explains why he's so fond of the bank. (Fortune)

Buffet has made some really crappy buys over the last year in the financials, what puzzles me is why he just keeps pouring more and more money into them.

Banking Won't Be Fun for a While

The new banks have not been de-leveraged. They are just moving their assets off balance sheet through the PPIP. They are posing as the private investors, getting more leverage from the Treasury and Fed, then buying their assets under another subsidiary name.

America is being impoverished by their banking government, and we still can't short the market at least not until we get a technical break of the current trend
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Derivatives: Gambling at Public Expense

The derivatives debacle is definitely unsolved and getting hidden under more and more Governmental meddling. Still, it hasn't paid to be early shorting this market wait until this concisetrading.blogspo...
trend line breaks

12 Stocks with Lots of Cash

concisetrading.blogspo.../ If that trendline breaks on the S&P, then be careful about your timing buying even cash rich companies.