Mr. Math

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    • ON: Fri Oct 10th 18:35 PM
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      IBM: Lessons from the Great Depression
      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.
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    • ON: Mon Oct 6th 17:18 PM
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      Monetary Madness: Global Margin Call Underway
      "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.
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    • ON: Fri Oct 3rd 05:32 AM
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      The Biden-Palin Panderfest
      ...2/3rds of America is in love with Sarah Palin,
      and the other 1/3rd is foaming at the mouth...
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    • ON: Fri Sep 19th 17:16 PM
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      Bank of America: Bank on This Opportunity
      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...
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    • ON: Fri Sep 12th 20:25 PM
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      Market Losing Patience with AIG
      Eliot Spitzer - resigned in disgrace.

      AIG - down 82% from the 2005 peak.

      The fates have not been kind to those who dethroned Hank Greenberg.
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    • ON: Tue Sep 2nd 23:46 PM
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      Megaprojects Predict Decline of Oil Production
      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?
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    • ON: Thu Aug 28th 16:18 PM
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      10 Financial Entities On the Brink
      8/22 MBIA's on the brink - great call! Up 50% on the week.
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    • ON: Thu Aug 28th 14:47 PM
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      The Risk Of A Run On The Banking System
      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.
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    • ON: Wed Aug 27th 18:51 PM
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      Looming Financial Catastrophe: A Real Inconvenient Truth
      Mr Quinn, you wrote this:
      "Outlaw lobbyists and lobbying of public officials."

      I'd like to remind you of this:
      Congress shall make no law ... abridging... the right of the people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

      The problem isn't the lobbyists. The problem is that government power is worth money.

      The only way to get the money out of politics is to reduce the power and scope of government.
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    • ON: Tue Aug 19th 19:29 PM
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      Credit Default Risk Chart
      I'd like to see this risk measure correlated with the VIX.
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    • ON: Wed Jul 23rd 01:32 AM
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      Benefiting from the Oil Correction
      What about WNR?

      finance.yahoo.com/q?s=...
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    • ON: Tue Jul 15th 19:03 PM
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      What We Can Do To Reverse the Oil Crisis
      Phil-

      On the topic of the refiners & idle capacity: let's say you're a small/medium refiner & don't have your own wells. Oil spikes to $145/bbl but retail gas is only about $4.50 so you're losing money on every gallon.

      Doesn't it seem like that's a good time to shut down & start making repairs?

      Take a look at the chart of something like WNR it's gone from $65 to $8 and it isn't even sitting on a pile of toxic subprime mortgages.
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    • ON: Fri Jul 11th 19:20 PM
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      The Dollar's Decline: Taking Responsibility for the Future
      Menzie Chinn-

      Other posters disclose their financial positions. You should disclose your political affiliations, so that readers can understand that your economic commentary is primarily dictated by your politics.
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    • ON: Thu Jun 19th 13:27 PM
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      How Much Will Drilling in ANWR Affect Oil Prices?
      The two differences between an ANWR barrel and a Saudi/Iranian/Nigerian barrel are:

      1) We pay AMERICAN WORKERS to drill domestic oil
      2) domestic oil is on the AMERICAN SIDE of the trade deficit
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    • ON: Wed Jun 4th 05:00 AM
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      Is There an Oil Crisis Looming?
      Nice to see a "Peak Oil Bull" engaging these websites.

      Isn't another possible reason for the "2012...falling off a cliff" effect simply that people don't make announcements for plans that far out?
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