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  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Auh gee. AIG execs want to leave. Darn. They ran the company into the ground and now they want to leave. Get rid of them.
    Dec 07 09:36 am |Rating: +5 0 |Link to Comment
  • How Low Can the Dollar Go? [View article]
    A rather poor article.
    Sep 13 09:19 am |Rating: +14 -3 |Link to Comment
  • Some Graham and Dodd Type Thoughts on Stocks vs. Bonds [View article]
    There is a difference that you neglected to mention. That is the tax treatment of stocks vs bonds. With the preferred tax treatment of capital gains and currently dividends too, the in your pocket returns of stocks are greater than bonds.
    Aug 14 08:32 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Dollar Is Doomed [View article]
    It sort of makes one wonder why so few seem to see this scenario.
    May 07 11:04 am |Rating: +2 0 |Link to Comment
  • 90% AIG Tax Rate: Back to the 1950s  [View article]
    It might be interesting to note that when the marginal rate was above 90%, the growth rate of the economy was at it highest level.
    Mar 22 08:44 am |Rating: 0 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Are Recessions Really That Bad? [View article]
    This article is just slightly slanted in its approach. From 1968 to 1982 the annual growth rate of stock investments as given by the S&P 500 was about 2.4%--not all that spectacular. That was a 14 year period of next to nothing. We are probably in for another such period, if in fact it proves that good.
    Jan 18 15:41 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    What this country really needs is a public hanging of big bank presidents.
    Jan 16 08:07 am |Rating: +4 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Is the U.S. Solvent? [View article]
    What is amazing to me is that people keep buying U S debt and at give away interest rates. Sort of makes one wonder.
    Jan 09 09:12 am |Rating: +4 0 |Link to Comment
  • Hedge Fund Redemptions May Crash Q1 Markets [View article]
    There is quite a lot of negative criticism of this post here, but I am not too sure that all of it is justified. I do believe he did mention 1st quarter withdrawals. That does allow sufficient time for a 45 day notice. Certainly, there have already been plenty of hedge fund withdrawals, but the point here is that as bad as everything is, the Madoff affair might very well make a few people wonder whether their money is safe anywhere other than under their matress. It makes me wonder that. I believe I read that Madoff is going to bankrupt the SIPC fund. Sort of makes one wonder whether one should remove ones funds from every brokerage account out there.
    Dec 22 08:48 am |Rating: +9 -4 |Link to Comment
  • U.S. Dollar: The Trade of the Decade  [View article]
    What BS.
    Dec 18 09:28 am |Rating: +2 -1 |Link to Comment
  • Excessive Systemic Debt: The Primary Cause of Our Current Crisis [View article]
    If I read the chart correctly, the great depression started with the debt ratio below 170%. I due agree that too much debt is the primary cause of the current troubles, but your historic analysis appear flawed to me.
    Dec 04 08:19 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Paulson is clueless. Sort of like a chicken with its head cut off. Sure gives me confidence.
    Nov 13 08:13 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
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