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  • State Tax Revenues Plunge [View article]
    Politicians exist to spend money. It is the source of their power. They promise funding to get elected and they look for new ways to spend money to stay elected. They are like drug pushers and we are their junkies. The recession is starving us of our fix and just like junkies, we must find new victims to mug.
    Nov 11 09:53 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Five Charts to Rule Them All: A Telling Week for Bonds [View article]
    "I guess you could believe that aliens built the pyramids of Egypt!"
    www.outerworlds.com/li...
    Nov 11 09:09 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Fed: Backed into a Corner? [View article]
    The only English words I saw in Japan were Sony and Mitsubishi.
    Nov 10 19:06 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Who Is the Mystery Buyer? [View article]
    The Shadow knows.
    Nov 10 18:18 pm |Rating: +5 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Your comment reminds me of a certain casino operator who lamented that the problem with Louisiana politicians was that they didn't stay bought.


    On Nov 10 09:09 AM tripleblack wrote:

    > Correct. And the current stack of trillion dollar piles of pork is
    > primarily post-dated to about 2012, by an odd coincidence...
    >
    > This is truly a herd of "honest politicians", aka, those that STAY
    > bought...
    >
    > Or at least so the leadership Hopes.
    Nov 10 14:34 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Erosion in the M2:M1 Relationship and the Burgeoning Eurodollar Bubble [View article]
    Who knows? Just keep some powder dry.
    Nov 10 13:20 pm |Rating: +2 -2 |Link to Comment
  • Three lunchtime reads:
    1) The Fed is already transparent
    2) Goldman Sachs doing "God's work"?
    3) Five merger arbitrage opportunities  [View news story]
    GS doing God's work? Depends on your god, I guess. Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple, the Koran forbids usury, but Wall Street worships at the feet of Mammon.
    Nov 10 13:06 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Three lunchtime reads:
    1) The Fed is already transparent
    2) Goldman Sachs doing "God's work"?
    3) Five merger arbitrage opportunities  [View news story]
    Henry Ford said the American people would revolt if they new what the FED did. I suspect that may be true, but the banking system would also collapse because it would be revealed for the the con game that it is.
    Nov 10 13:02 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Digging through a lot going on in Sen. Chris Dodd's newly unveiled 1,136-page bank reform bill: It would remove the Fed's oversight of banks to a consolidated regulator (also including FDIC), and have the central bank focus on monetary policy. Swaps would have to be centrally cleared. Muni bond advisers would register. Dodd sees a vote on his bill next year, while Barney Frank wants the House to act this year.  [View news story]
    This won't prevent Dodd from getting sweetheart loans will it?
    Nov 10 12:19 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Bearish Grumblings: The Edwards Strikes Back [View article]
    In the meantime, enjoy the party, but leave early.
    Nov 10 09:18 am |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • The Unsustainable Lie of Inflation [View article]
    "Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
    - Einstein
    Nov 10 09:12 am |Rating: +3 0 |Link to Comment
  • Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News [View article]
    Most of the stimulus money gets spent next year. Dems are hoping this will return them to Congress.
    Nov 10 08:49 am |Rating: +8 -1 |Link to Comment
  • How the U.S. Government Is Swallowing the Economy [View article]
    "...[T]the growing-government phenomenon transcends party politics."
    I couldn't agree more. Virtually all politicians are corrupted by the process. Elections require money. Donors expect a return on their investment. Very few people can wield power without becoming corrupted. It has always been thus, and thus it shall always be. We can wait in vain for the virtuous or we can demand virtuousness of ourselves by changing our dirty linen.
    “This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.”

    - Abraham Lincoln
    Nov 09 21:48 pm |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment
  • Bonds Signal Inflation Is Coming [View article]
    Some people have a way about them that seems to say: "If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk”


    On Nov 09 07:21 PM MarkMarket wrote:

    > Stock market keeps going up even with record unemployment. DJIA 10300
    > this week.
    > good articles 4 slow news day: financeopinionss.blogs...
    Nov 09 21:23 pm |Rating: +1 -2 |Link to Comment
  • On Northrop Grumman's (NOC) TASC sale analyst call, Barclays' Carter Copeland notes that prices for units sold by defense firms have consistently been higher than a sum-of-parts analysis would indicate, and wonders - if so - why don't they continue to carve themselves up? To which CFO Jim Palmer replies: Who says we aren't?  [View news story]
    As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
    - Dick Cavett
    Nov 09 20:21 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
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