Takayama

Bank Asset Values a Lingering Problem

Elimination of mark to market accounting is the dirtiest trick I could imagine, and it is a disgrace the US condones such an act of evil. HFT is another. The US is the axis of evil, and the North Korea of the financial world.
Bonuses are paid out because of this accounting magic.

Bank Asset Values a Lingering Problem

Elimination of mark to market accounting is the dirtiest trick I could imagine, and it is a disgrace the US condones such an act of evil. HFT is another. The US is the axis of evil, and the North Korea of the financial world.
Bonuses are paid out because of this accounting magic.

A Bull Market That Few Are Buying

Good work. There is always two sides of the coin, and economics being an inexact science. The US economy is like a sick man given new super drugs, but once the drug effect wears out, the patient will be much worse than before.
The present bull rally is therefore NOT sustainable. We see this behavior before in the Japan market crash. History repeats itself.
This rally is supported by the big stimulus package and the printing of more US dollars.

25 Ways to Tell a Banking System Is Unsound

Could someone publish a list of market interventions, and maybe make out something useful and meaningful?

Future generations are going to pay for it dearly.

25 Ways to Tell a Banking System Is Unsound

Do not interfere with the free market forces.
When stocks are bullish, there was no intervention from the government departments. So why should there be intervention in a bear market ?? Let the market forces work its course.

Getting to see more government intervention as in SEC short rule timing, protection for Freddy and Fannie, and the buying of securities by the FED.

Instead of allowing market forces to work in free and capitalist America, I am seeing more market interventions, almost amounting to market manipulations which obviously benefited quite a few people with the insider information. The dice is loaded, and the playing field is not leveled.

What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now?

Someone mentioned in another post that the Shanghai stock market is an excellent example as shorts are not allowed in this market, thus causing it to crash by more than 50 percent.

Manipulators will push up the stock and then let it crash when you least expect. Many small investors have been massacred in this manner by the big boys.

What Pushed the SEC to Tighten the Rules - Now?

Short selling is a must for an efficient market. Those who ask for shorts to be banned are asking for another stock market bubble.

They should instead buy in at the lows, and kill the shorts. A good money making opportunity from short squeezes.

Massive Government and Private Sector Job Cuts Coming

... and the world's economies will continue to grow after this period of contraction. Yes, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs. They'll figure out something else to do.

Look at Japan today. People are sleeping at 24-hours internet kiosks and MacDonalds.

Who Benefits When the Fed Floods the System with Liquidity?

The losers are the prudent savers and those affected by inflation, especially the poor and the elderly. I think CAPITALISM has been badly abused by the greed of corporate America.