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Credit Default Swaps: Once Again, The Tool of the Devil

These are either options on bonds-so list them on the options exchange---- if you can.
Or they are insurance against default- so regulate them like the insurance industry. If you can.
Otherwise these things should not exist.

New Zealand Kiwi Is Outperforming the Dollar

If the dollar keeps going down our exports will should soar eventually.
This country should become attractive to manufacturing again.
Or we may be racing to the bottom in earning power because of taxes, regulations and lawsuits that other newer exporters don't have.
I am betting on the latter since this administration doesn't quite get it.

It's the Subprime Fiasco All Over Again

In the long run, we are all made serfs.

U.S. Growth Probably Now at 4.5 Percent

I'll bet that profit margins will be dropping soon.

Dark Pools Are Not Scary Damp Places Where Investors Get Ripped Off

I believe that what you meant to say is that the liquidity HFT provides is really worth much more in better executions than the extra few cents per trade that we pay..
I believe that is true.

Richard Bernstein - Once a Bear, Now a Bull

When earnings season is over, the men will be separated from the boys.

Even the Fed Doesn't Want to Hold U.S. Dollars

I wonder-- is the fear of imploding swap positions now steering the Fed's policy?

The Future of U.S. Consumer Spending: It's a Generational Thing

Somehow I doubt these young people will be eating at McDonalds and shopping at Walmart

The Socialist Calculation Problem and Regulation of Financial Markets

The point is transparency. These should have NEVER been allowed to trade OTC.

Geithner to Blame for Outrageous Goldman Bonuses

good morning!


On Oct 21 08:22 AM prairiedog555 wrote:

> You know I knew the Obama administration was far left leaning, but
> at least I figured that they would come down on a Socialist's arch
> enemy, Wall Street. (as well as the drug companies)
> But I guess what they really are is crooked Chicago politicians who
> will lie down with anybody that they need.

Of the SEC, Foxes and Henhouses

I give up.

50 Ways the Federal Government Wastes Our Money

This is why I vote Libertarian.

Wall St. and Main St.: The Glaring Disconnect

Silly.
You have to send the police to the government first because that is where the Goldman alumni went and started the trouble.


Oct 18 09:52 AM a. palmer jr. wrote:

> There should have been a crackdown on those Wall Street criminals
> long before they were allowed to destroy the economy. If I were
> in charge I'd send policemen into Goldman Sachs and handcuff the
> whole bunch. There would be one gigantic "perp walk" down Wall Street
> to their nearest precinct. That would be a live televised event
> also, no chance for coverups or paper shredding.

Pay No Attention to the 140 P/E Behind the Curtain

Amen, this market is a comedy spawned by jokers. I wish that we could turn the clock back to the pre-swap era.

The Dow: Ominous Parallels to the 1929-1930 Era

Look at the nasdaq chart from 1995 to 2005.
Now that is an eerie parallel to 1929 of a true collapse.