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Bring back the electric car . It was deliberately killed yes killed by GM around 2001-2003. See the documentary movie 'Who killed the Electric Car?' for evidence of their bad decision making.

The High-Frequency Trading Debate

Only in the animal kingdom is brute power allowed to prevail. Not in civilized society.

In the hands of drug dealers AK47s and viruses in the hands of hackers and ID theft criminals are "efficiencies offered by technology and new communications infrastructure" . That does not mean law enforcement officers should say we just have to live with it. Nor should common citizens be willing to accept these advances in technology and communications as unrestricted muscle power that can be used against the common good.

Unrestricted high frequency trading should not be allowed. When computer trading will completely take over social trading by humans, it will not be a market anymore..just another jungle.

Worldwide Housing Declines: U.S. Halfway Down the List

Could be the changing demographics. All Western economies and Japan have an aging workforce. This is a structural issue with long term ramifications.

What is Hank Paulson Thinking?

It may go down in history that the Ben-Hank duo cried wolf too late to get help. They pumped $600 B into the market yesterday and now have routine injections of billions again and again. This is not sustainable. This is crisis after crisis. Why don't we get it and why doesn't Congress who have no sense of economics or banking? Banks have imploded. Investment banks are dodos. We are too deep to pull out of this wierd recession without lots of fiscal and monetary help. HELP!

Puts Instead of Shorts? Today's Activity

I believe there was large scale algorithmic shorting. This implies that computers do the trading and the result is a waterfall of falling share prices.

So if a company is attacked the attacker is likely to be a swarm of computers that take over the market. I believe this should be researched and perhaps limited by the regulators.

I also believe that a lot of the exaggerated trading was becaause of quadruple trading as was in March this year.

What Will Fannie / Freddie Mean for Monday?

User 257564 There is no way to value the common shares of FRE and FNM. The change in shareholder rights is -100%...nonexistent. So the embalmed mummy stocks will have value as long as the market has some interest in driving by the museum pieces and play out the horror film.

Then again the mummy stocks may come back as mummies return. They may await the return of the scorpion king..now at an undisclosed location or perhaps in the haunted Treasury building.

Energy Stocks Are Too Cheap to Ignore - Barron's

Did you see the seeming lack of reaction by oil prices and commodities to the Russia-Georgia violence? What must be the reason is the ongoing unwinding of hedges of oil to finance. We are watching the oil bears take control.This being options week we will see more of it. Once it is over I believe oil stocks will reflect the risk from the Russian bear and go back up some. Next week it will be the Russian bear taking over from the oil bears.

Three Rolling Correlations in the Current Market

Friday's rally was positioning for options week. Next week is options expiration.

Has Garmin Lost Its Direction?

How would Garmin disbelievers like to ride in a plane, train, car, truck where the driver peers into a phone gps while driving and talking? Does not seem like a safe idea. This is not a one trick pony.

Microsoft Figured We'd All Be on Vista by Now

I seem to be the exception. I love Microsoft Vista on my Sony Vaio digital media center laptop. It is seamless and fast. My office laptop is XP based and slower and needs more work to install hardware than Vista. All I did was buy a new printer as the 13 year old brother could not be adapted.

Garmin Hits New Lows, Despite Booming GPS Biz

S&P rates GRMN a FIVE STAR stock with a 12 month target of $105. I'm underwater in this stock at this time but the risks have been priced in. I look for recovery going forward.

The Fed: On the Cusp of Moral Hazard

MrLagom

I was unable to find the SEC commission filing you mention. Could you give us a little more detail: type of filing and date perhaps.

Also the telegraph link is confusing. More detail please.

The Fed: On the Cusp of Moral Hazard

This is not compassionate conservatism anymore. It is compassionate capitalism because a pure market failure is not palatable to this administration at this time of election year survivorship.

Why JPM and why Bear? Bear's investors would have done better in chapter 11 and let the market set the price for exiting bankcruptcy. Compassionate capitalism is putting the interests of political survivorship or powerful interests survivorship ahead of economic market survivorship.

Instead of remaining a lender of last resort, the Fed in this move and almost all other moves has become the lender of compassionate resort. In doing so it has raised all these questions of adverse selection and moral hazard.

We are beginning to look more like 'old Europe' it is not?

Paul Krugman Wonders If He Is Dumb. I Say: "No!!"

Gordon, enjoyed the 'behind the scenes' reasoning. Intentional or not, this scheme or not, my own historical data analysis has shown the oil prices go up the first 18 of 24 months to national elections and down in the last six months. So I'm waiting for June for the real downtrend in commodity prices to get into gear and the dollar to look healthy.

Alan Greenspan Loses His Mind

Why blame Greenspan and the Fed? When the twin Towers fell and economic activity went into freeze mode, the Fed came through and restarted the economy. That single action makes having the Fed worth while.

If you are looking to blame anyone blame the 9/11 terrorists who hurt the economy (Bin Laden was an economics student ) and led us into the inflationary Iraq war. The Five deferment Dick and Dubya show shares a lot of the blame for prolonging the inflationary spiral. Greenspan's Fed did the patriotic thing and the right thing at the time.

The Fed's problem is one of moral hazard. They can lend the money but cannot overcome the greed and other deadly sins of the borrowers. They cannot change human nature. That is not the business of the Fed.

It is unfair of Kedrosky and others to blame one single individual. What pray did any of these critics do when the economy froze in 2001?