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  • Did Geithner Bail Out Goldman Sachs? [View article]
    What's more plausible, GS, or the entire EU???

    As has been documented many places, the AIG bailout was really about protecting the EU's banking system. Here is just one example:

    financialtraders.blogs...
    Dec 17 00:43 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Many hedge funds have become financial roach motels, Kevin Hassett says: "Investors can put their money in, but they can’t get it out." The good news? The phenomenon may actually slow the bleeding.  [View news story]
    ...timely observations for, say, last September...
    Dec 08 18:11 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Reflation Is the Only Option [View article]
    "first the bankers must show us they have survived the next wave of CDS obligations coming due this week and next"

    As documented by Barrons:

    1) $400B in nominal Lehmans CDS value
    2) 8 cents on the $ bond settlement
    3) $6B changed hands

    Is CDS really the problem, or is it just the Boogie Man of 2008?
    Nov 24 23:49 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Preferred Dividend ETFs: Shelter from the Storm? [View article]
    How about PGX too?
    Nov 21 18:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Chart of Initial Jobless Claims [View article]
    The numbers are absolute, and the workforce is much larger, as is the population.
    Nov 20 15:34 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Couldn't the New AIG Bailout Have Waited Until January? [View article]
    The Belgians don't seem to want to wait until January:

    www.reuters.com/articl...
    Nov 10 18:42 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Rare Batman Pattern Forming in the VIX [View article]
    you crack me up
    Oct 23 17:33 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • IBM: Lessons from the Great Depression [View article]
    Touching tale of American ingenuity & grit: depths of depression, big factory in New York gets Federal contract for the new-fangled Social Security system.

    I'm sure it's just a coincidence the president at the time was the former governor of New York.
    Oct 10 18:35 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Monetary Madness: Global Margin Call Underway [View article]
    "This time it will be global" ??? As if the first Great Depression wasn't?

    Stock market crashes are not inflationary events.
    Bank failures are not inflationary events.
    Property foreclosures are not inflationary events.
    Oct 06 17:18 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Biden-Palin Panderfest [View article]
    ...2/3rds of America is in love with Sarah Palin,
    and the other 1/3rd is foaming at the mouth...
    Oct 03 05:32 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Bank of America: Bank on This Opportunity [View article]
    Yahoo reports that MER shareholders may reject the deal, in which case BAC gets ~20% of MER at ~$17 - a massive call that's $10 below today's close.

    biz.yahoo.com/ap/08091...
    Sep 19 17:16 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Market Losing Patience with AIG [View article]
    Eliot Spitzer - resigned in disgrace.

    AIG - down 82% from the 2005 peak.

    The fates have not been kind to those who dethroned Hank Greenberg.
    Sep 12 20:25 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Megaprojects Predict Decline of Oil Production [View article]
    How do we measure the potential production from developments which are off limits solely for political reasons, e.g.- ANWR, the Santa Barbara Channel, and the Florida Offshore site the Chinese are going to drill for Cuba?

    How do we measure the potential production from countries which have confiscated their fields from international corporations & then ran the resulting operations into the ground through socialist mismanagement, e.g.- Venezuela, Iran, Mexico, & Russia?
    Sep 02 23:46 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • 10 Financial Entities On the Brink [View article]
    8/22 MBIA's on the brink - great call! Up 50% on the week.
    Aug 28 16:18 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Risk Of A Run On The Banking System [View article]
    FDIC capital on hand is not significant. The guarantee behind all these institutions is the Federal Govt.'s willingness to spend taxpayer money.

    Anyone betting against that is going to have to cover sooner or later.
    Aug 28 14:47 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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