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Wall Street: Dumb as It Ever Was

It took you this long to realize that Wall Street is run by those who failed to get into Engineering College???

Monkey throw dart. Dart lands on target. Monkey, Super Star!!! Thats Wall Street for you!

Airlines: Some Costs They Can't - And Shouldn't - Cut

One good place to cut costs is in CEO compensation. Just warming the chairs and playing golf is no reason to over pay for these high level positions.

Roubini Hates Gold: Is He Wrong Again?

A few economists thinking doom and gloom doesn't make it so. Its the belief of the populous that makes or breaks the dollar/gold.... and the mass population doesn't see nor believes in the Armageddon.

If the Armageddon happens, for the common man, bread is more important than gold because you can eat bread but not gold. So gold will be worth less. Better stack up on bread and butter then!

Where's the Outrage at the Banks?

How do I make myself too big to fail? Thats a question we all will have to figure out!

Verizon Launches Direct Ad Attack Against the iPhone

Verizon's only real bet is to offer WIFI far below what AT&T charges. Why would any one want to give up their iPhone for a half ass phone that doesn't work in an intuitive way like the iPhone.

Sirius XM's Game Changer About to Rock

What is a game changer? Its a paradigm shift and putting an iPhone accessory for sat radio is not a game changer. What would be game changer is to have Satellite WiFi, then you could access the internet, internet radio, etc from any device. Sat Radio is just a medium, temporary at that, and held together with the rubber band of a few talk show hosts. Though there is an audience willing to pay for radio, I am not in that demographics and neither is any other technical/professional that I know of. I have seen the use of sat radio among on the road community and I dont believe its large enough to save them.

Five Reasons the Market Could Crash This Fall

#1, I dont get your point. You stated the institutional investor's next price would have been $10.04 anyway. If this is the case, only thing HFTP has added is volume and a 1/2 penny to its pocket. If the trend is up and the price went up regardless, getting the HFTP out would be a good thing as both seller and buyer will have an extra 1/4 penny in their pocket.

#2 If this market rally is a Short-Squeeze, so be it. It is welcomed for the harm naked shorts have caused. The second part of "price discovery" has to happen at some time, and its called a Short-Squeeze!

Inflation vs. Deflation: Pick Your Poison

The article hides out the middle man completely, making the argument a completely flawed one. In the real life, majority do not participate in this "discovery of a treasure chest." Though we see and hear the printing presses roll, none of that makes it beyond the pockets of the rich bankers that are too fat to fail! I personally haven't seen any of these shiny new Benjamins and nor will majority of Americans. So the 2 people argument is completely flawed, yet the majority of the populous ends up having to cough up more and more for the same goods with a dwindling supply of money (as we loose jobs) while the new money clings onto the deep pockets, finding comfort in the flabby crevices where the sun never shines.

How E*Trade Is Trying to Survive in the TARP Era

"And arguably, not accepting TARP funds (albeit through not being allowed to) may mean that the broker didn’t suffer the unintended consequences of doing so, such as disincentivizing key employees by introducing ludicrous long-term performance-linked salary structures."

These KEY employees who are paid regardless of their performance is the problem. If disincentivizing these KEY employees is a problem, I guess some one needs to ask the question, where will they go? With the whole economy hanging off a cliff due to the risks taken by these KEY employees, they have no place to run and hide. Its time the compensation is tied to their long term performance.

Rupert Murdoch Interview: 'Economy Weak; Danger of Inflation Great'

Yes Rupert Murdoch is a billionaire, and yes, none of us likes the state we are in. I want to ask what economic degree he has to be relevant in a financial discussion? As far as I am concerned his opinion is good as any other you pick off the street. So why is this worthy of an article?

Rupert Murdoch Interview: 'Economy Weak; Danger of Inflation Great'

Arent these the guys who show propaganda instead of news? Anything that comes out of Fox and NBC are Views, not Views. This is yet another load of manufactured crap and bull shit that is pored down the throat of the unsuspecting American xmplary.blogspot.com/2... Shame on Fox leaders thats putting their biased views instead of reporting news as they are. I trust John Stewart and Steve Colbert to give me more objective news.

Uptick Rule Debate Needs Some Clear Heads

Shorting is fine, but Naked Shorting should be illegal. When you can keep borrowing unlimited number os shares from thin air, thats not playing fair.

Quantitative Easing and the Disappearance of Income

It would be very interesting to see the statistics of how many of these geniuses bought CDSes and naked shorted stocks.

On Mar 20 08:36 AM prudentinvestor wrote:

> "......Not just in the US but in many parts of the world, central
> bankers are now becoming desperate to try to ignite some spark under
> their property markets....."
>
> True. The amazing fact is that they lit bonfires under the property
> markets for over a decade, propelling them into the bubblesphere.
> These supposedly intelligent central bankers created the bubble,
> totally oblivious of its inexorable consequences that we are now
> experiencing. Now we expect the same school of economic geniuses
> to find a painless solution (?)

The Short Case on Strayer Education

I agree with your reasoning. My wife wanted to go to Arts Institute of Atlanta for Interior Design. After seeing how much it costs (over $500/credit hour) we decided to wait it out a bit longer. You can go out and spend $50K on education, but, if at the end of it you dont get a job, you have an expensive piece of paper and no way to pay back the loan.

Will Obama Be Better Than Bush for Stocks?

I think the solution for the Wall Street is to get Steve Jobs elected to be our next President! He did it for Apple, why not for the love of the country?