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Living the American Dream - in Reverse

"Fear… Despair… Disbelief.. Hopelessness"
”Civil Unrest in the US”
"Unemployment is raging"

This is exactly the kind of sensationalist post that is contributing to the negative psychology.

Finance Website Visits Increase 19% in February

I believe this increase in traffic is true across the whole spectrum of financial websites and not just the branded ones. And I am quite sure that Seeking Alpha has also seen a substantial increase in traffic. But the problem is that the advertisers of these financial websites are being trounced in the crisis.

Expecting Hyper-Inflation: Fed Chooses to Monetize America's Debt

I guess printing more money to buy the toxic mortgage debt is the general plan then. And basically the Fed has come to the conclusion that there is no other currency in the world that can replace the US dollar at least in the foreseeable future.

Fed's Announcement Caused Major Rally In the Debt Markets

What the Fed is doing right now is treating the symptoms not the disease.

U.S. Dollar Has Third Biggest One-Day Decline Ever

The Fed is implementing the 1929 solution on the 2009 financial and economic crisis. For everybody's sake, let's hope it will work.

Spend or Save: What's the Solution?

Spending and saving is not an either or proposition. We can do both. They are not mutually exclusive. Actually, it is better to do both at the same time rather than do either spending or saving alone.

Geithner's New Advisor Said to Be Citigroup Chief Economist

That's the kind of revolving door that is at the root of the whole financial mess. Where is the change we can believe in ?

Don't Buy the Housing Headlines

Any upward trend will have to start with an uptick. So, true, let's not get too excited by that single datapoint and let's wait for the overall trend in the next few months.

Too Big to Fail, Or Too Dumb to Survive?

All we have to do is to compare the situation of the world's financial system before and after the bankruptcy of Lehman. And we will get an idea of the risks that these mammoth financial institutions pose to the economy. Are we ready to take the gamble and let them fail ? There is no going back once it's done.

The End of News Media or Just an Accidental Business Model?

The news media will not end. It will just adapt to the new medium such as the internet. Some will succeed, but many will fail. Even the online blogs are highly dependent on the traditional news media even if they pretend they are fierce competitors to the mainstream media. In our aggregator business news site, www.tradememe.com , we see a lot of outgoing links from the blogs to the traditional news sites, but the reverse is very rarely true.

AIG's Blackmail Note

This problem started a long time ago when companies were allowed to grow so big that their failure could cause a systemic problem. Now, it's too late. We need to make sure the company survives and then it can be broken into smaller units that would no longer be a systemic risk to the economy.

Is Microsoft Headed for Back-to-Back Down Years?

Microsoft has not yet made the jump into the web. For so long as Windows and Office remain their cash cow, they will not really be that serious as a web competitor.

Long Term View of the Dow

These charts are quite impressive. They sure give us a good perspective of what true long term means. But we live in an instant gratification age. So, it's doubtful that many investors are going to have outlooks in terms of decades not years.

Senior Google Executive Leaves for AOL...Why?

Why? One wants to have some of the Google magic while the other wants to be the top dog.

Credit Card Cancer

This is a great article. Economists like to put forward the so-called Paradox of Thrift, as if when people save, they stop consuming completely. And there will be a gigantic depression as a result.