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    • ON: Thu Oct 9th 09:24 AM
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      Iceland's Best-Laid Plans Fall Apart
      darling, icesave froze my deposits

      then let's invade iceland
      and as a sidebar get our 1000 year revenge
      on canute (who like dubya in iraq, who couldn't get the waves to obey him, but sent a chill of fear through the souls of the invaded saxons)
      or william the conqueror (another viking, albeit with some polish from his sojurn at the moulin rouge in gay paree)
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    • ON: Wed Oct 8th 08:48 AM
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      Steel: The Bottom Is Not In
      with so many applauding jpmorgan's handling of the 1907 financial crisis
      and central banks scuppering all anti-trust legislation inspired by you-sex (as his ironmonger was known in the roaring 90s)
      the can-can is roaring again at carnegie hall
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    • ON: Mon Sep 29th 21:16 PM
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      Corporate Bonds: When Safe Asset Classes Become Risky
      lqd: 38.3% banks and financials
      i'll pass
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    • ON: Fri Sep 26th 17:01 PM
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      Barclays Will Not Pick Up Lehman ETNs
      etns aint lehman assets
      they are liabilities

      so one day, some day
      etn holders might get a penny or two back
      in the share out of very thin pizza slices among all non-privileged creditors

      so be it
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    • ON: Fri Sep 26th 09:11 AM
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      When It Rains, It Pours
      napalm is a soap
      burning money laundering

      agent orange
      defoliant kills greenback
      but will it save ing?
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    • ON: Thu Sep 25th 18:57 PM
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      Nightmares on ETN Street: When Issuers Go Bust
      "Apparently Lehman Brothers (LEH) backed a few of them under the brand name Opta"
      why "apparently"... they did issue them as their indexed debt, not backed them
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    • ON: Thu Sep 25th 08:31 AM
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      Bush's Speech: Surprisingly Coherent
      "addressed at an audience of millions who have no idea what a bond is" by somebody who doesn't know either
      no wonder
      "the body language. He wasn't panicked, and he wasn't angry, and he wasn't telling us that we really had to Act Now Or Else"

      as for turning the bald eagle in to a vulture
      fund sweeping up the table at a distressed purchase price, see you in 2012
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    • ON: Wed Sep 24th 08:50 AM
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      Beware ETNs, Part 2
      "buy ETNs only from state-owned banks. There will probably be a few of those, by the time this crisis is over"
      there already are: rja by swedish export credit bank at tip of the tongue, which i didn't buy seeing commodities at the crest of the wave, which broke (in honesty, sooner than i expected)
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    • ON: Wed Sep 24th 08:46 AM
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      ETNs and Bankruptcy: No 'Mr. In Between'
      you had all been warned:


      Portfolio is a Dog? Diversify Into Cows and Pigs
      by: Matthew Bradbard posted on: August 01, 2008 | about stocks: COW / LSO / MOO

      This article has 1 comment:


      mangy cat
      Aug 01 08:38 PM
      moo is no cow, it's an agribusiness etf with very little livestock in it

      you skipped ubc, another livestock etn, if one can trust ubs to last the course
      but is it any worse than lehman?

      Taking iPath DJ Livestock Cow out of the Barn [view article]
      all three being etns, how does the relative chances of barclays (cow), lehman (lso), and ubs (ubc) surviving a generation and longer, affect their respective valuations? Apr 26 09:23 AM


      The Only Thing Wrong with ETNs [view article]
      ami i glad somebody has actually picked up the possibility that sometime during the next generation ubs, barclays or lehman (even the swedish export credit bank) may fold, a "minor" detail among much b.s on the relative merits of the agricultural commodity etns May 08 09:02 PM
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    • ON: Tue Sep 23rd 20:08 PM
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      Say It Ain't So: Barclays to Allow Default of Lehman ETNs?
      you had all been warned:


      Portfolio is a Dog? Diversify Into Cows and Pigs
      by: Matthew Bradbard posted on: August 01, 2008 | about stocks: COW / LSO / MOO

      This article has 1 comment:


      mangy cat
      Aug 01 08:38 PM
      moo is no cow, it's an agribusiness etf with very little livestock in it

      you skipped ubc, another livestock etn, if one can trust ubs to last the course
      but is it any worse than lehman?

      Taking iPath DJ Livestock Cow out of the Barn [view article]
      all three being etns, how does the relative chances of barclays (cow), lehman (lso), and ubs (ubc) surviving a generation and longer, affect their respective valuations? Apr 26 09:23 AM


      The Only Thing Wrong with ETNs [view article]
      ami i glad somebody has actually picked up the possibility that sometime during the next generation ubs, barclays or lehman (even the swedish export credit bank) may fold, a "minor" detail among much b.s on the relative merits of the agricultural commodity etns May 08 09:02 PM
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    • ON: Sat Sep 20th 20:12 PM
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      SEC Retires 'Moron du Jour' Title
      seeing as how harvard blue eyed darling mingo cavallo stuffed argentina down a hole, the only cambridge grads i trust were at mit
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    • ON: Mon Sep 15th 20:43 PM
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      Does Lehman Failing Endanger the Overall ETN Market?
      And a couple of earlier warnings:

      Taking iPath DJ Livestock Cow out of the Barn [view article]
      all three being etns, how does the relative chances of barclays (cow), lehman (lso), and ubs (ubc) surviving a generation and longer, affect their respective valuations? Apr 26 09:23 AM


      The Only Thing Wrong with ETNs [view article]
      ami i glad somebody has actually picked up the possibility that sometime during the next generation ubs, barclays or lehman (even the swedish export credit bank) may fold, a "minor" detail among much b.s on the relative merits of the agricultural commodity etns May 08 09:02 PM
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    • ON: Mon Sep 15th 20:34 PM
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      Does Lehman Failing Endanger the Overall ETN Market?
      not to brag about foresight, however:

      Portfolio is a Dog? Diversify Into Cows and Pigs
      by: Matthew Bradbard posted on: August 01, 2008 | about stocks: COW / LSO / MOO

      This article has 1 comment:


      mangy cat
      Aug 01 08:38 PM
      moo is no cow, it's an agribusiness etf with very little livestock in it

      you skipped ubc, another livestock etn, if one can trust ubs to last the course
      but is it any worse than lehman?
      View article »
    • ON: Sat Sep 6th 08:51 AM
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      This Week's IPO: Silver State Bancorp
      ha ha ha
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    • ON: Fri Aug 15th 20:21 PM
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      Companies With Recent, Innovative Product Approvals vs. Healthcare ETFs
      but this is hindsight
      and investment is foresight
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