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One Year Since the Banking System Collapsed. Has Anything Really Changed?

I am preparing for the next crisis, say OCT 2013, when the Fed?Treasury refuses to bail out a major American bank.

If Asset Prices Are Dropping, Why Are Bank Stocks Rising?

banks believed all along that they would be bailed out, as the authorities cannot allow all depositors down the drain......now it is the turn of hedge funds, they will be bailed out in the name of promoting financial innovation and protection of investors...dont you think I am getting cynical?

Is a Case of Quant Trading Sabotage About to Destroy Goldman Sachs?

Thet are too big to do anything wrong, and even if they do,they won't
suffer.

Tax Dollars at Work: Goldman Sachs to Pay Record Bonuses

serves american taxpayer right.

american capitalism is live and kicking

I am waiting to hear loud protests in the senate about over regulation
of geniuses of Wall Street.

What's To Be Done About Citigroup?

Such behemoths are unmanagable and uncontollable. The only protection for shareholders and taxpayers is to sell Citi piece by piece
and realize the best possible price.

India ETFs and ETNs Are Not the Best Emerging Market Investments

watch weather reports in both countries.A good monsoon and bountiful crops will spell quicker economic growth.

VIX: Where Will It Bottom?

Buy some at 28.In the next three months, there will be opportunities to sell at 30-32. The present euphoria about financials will dissipate as we approach end June quarter.Banks have increased their capital viz
number of shares, by a big multiple.What will happen to their PER? Is anybody calculating?

Indian Markets Friday Wrap-Up: Markets Rally Before Poll Results

you should know Mr Rao that theories do not work in India. That is why we see Western attitudes to India
moving from euphoric to pessimistic.Election result
is not a gurantee of good government, but it is an indication what the masses of poor and illiterate Indians think.Let us hope that next time around the same people will act agaist corruption of the rulers.

If you want to look for a theory, call it a theory of hope.

Indian Markets Friday Wrap-Up: Markets Rally Before Poll Results

Expect the markets to jump another 500 points on Monday now the the results for the election are out. Indians have voted for the stability, and rejected the
communal undertones of the BJP. Let us hope that the Congress will now advance the agenda of economic liberalisation, and accelerate the improvement of infrastructue. What India needs now is a good monsoon, and then the country will march to double digit growth in a year or two.Too
optimistic? OK, wait and see.

Another AIG Scandal?

the future of capitalism is safe!

Why Are We Wasting Our Energy on the Bonuses?

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Government's Toxic Assets and Quantitative Easing Plan - Complicated and Dangerous

All these billions poured into banks and insurance cos have not produced or saved single job. How will a jobless economy kick off? $ 160+billions poured into
AIG went straight into a derivative drain.With that kind of money Brazil and China could heve created millions of new jobs.What is Mr Obama's priority?
To save the bankers or save the workers?

Jim Rogers' Recent Portfolio Moves

The lesson of the present crisis is ; keep no cash in banks, but buy bricks and mortar, at least you are the master of your assets.

Are Barclays ETNs in Trouble?

you trade in all derivatives at the mercy of issuers.

Shorting U.S. Government Risk

Iceland's debt was in foregn currency, it could not print dollars. Treasury's debt is in domestic currency.