A couple of minor technical problems called “business” and “life” have now intruded on my increasingly bogged down publication schedule that, in the interest...
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JPMorgan, the Volcker Rule, and the Extreme Brevity of Financial Memory – Huffington Post
OregonLive.comJPMorgan, the Volcker Rule, and the Extreme Brevity of Financial MemoryHuffington PostExhibit A: The renewed battle over the so-called Volcker Rule in response to JPMorgan Chase's recent trading loss -- which might reach $5 billion. H...
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JPMorgan’s investment in lawmakers pays off in dividends of deflected blame – OregonLive.com
U.S. News & World ReportJPMorgan's investment in lawmakers pays off in dividends of deflected blameOregonLive.comAs the panel held the first hearing on the JPMorgan losses, Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the committee's ranking Republican, glo...
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Stop the Big Banks Before They Can Lend Again – Bloomberg
OregonLive.comStop the Big Banks Before They Can Lend AgainBloombergIf only there had been more regulators at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) If only the regulators had done a better job. Then what? The response to JPMorgan's May 10 announcement of ...
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Fed Said to Criticize Banks on Risk Models in Stress Test – Bloomberg
BloombergFed Said to Criticize Banks on Risk Models in Stress TestBloombergThe Federal Reserve criticized how some of the 19 largest US banks calculated potential losses and planned dividends in this year's stress tests, people with knowledge of th...
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The One Chart That Shows Where AAPL and the Market Are Heading
Is Apple going to $1,000 per share and dragging the market higher with it?
Sometimes one chart tells us more than a thicket of charts. Every analyst and punter seeks an "edge" by plotting and comparing innumerable indicators, ratios, correlat...
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Why I like Dividends and Capital Gains so Much
The main reason I like dividends and capital gains is that I can get free money
without having to do any work.
The second reason is since I didn't have to do any work for the money, the tax is
only 15%. If were to go to work overtime for the same m...
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Gingrich tax ‘plan’ starves government, feeds the wealthy, rests on flawed assumptions
Gingrich tax 'plan' starves government, feeds the wealthy, rests on flawed assumptions
Angry Bear Blog|Dec. 14, 2011, 8:41 AM|55|1
by Linda Beale
In case you hadn't heard about it, Gingrich would offer taxpayers a choice to pay tax under current polic...
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Profits vs. Paychecks: Workers Lose Big!
Workers’ share of national income stands at 57 percent, an all-time lowDespite striking productivity growth, workers’ pay has gone nowhereThird-quarter profits were 19.4 percent above their pre-recession peak
Any economist will tell you that pr...
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The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
November 5, 2011
The Problem With Flat-Tax Fever
By ROBERT H. FRANK
CLOSE watchers of presidential politics weren’t surprised to see many of this year’s Republican hopefuls proposing to replace the nation’s progressive income tax with a flat tax...
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Four Stocks to Avoid At All Costs
If you're like most investors, you probably spend most of your time searching for the "next" Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) or next Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) - in other words, the next big winner.
But finding winners is only part of the equation.
If you're...
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Investment Protection: These Dividend Stocks Yield Twice as Much as Treasuries
Do you know what the ultimate investment protection is?
It's not gold, and it's certainly not Treasuries.
It's dividend stocks.
Companies that pay consistent dividends are in better fiscal shape than the U.S. government and the payouts significantly outpace those of Treasuries. The advantage...
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The Simple Way to Score Fat Profits From Fast Food Stocks
Fast food can be an occasional unhealthy indulgence - but fast food stocks can be a healthy dose of profit for your portfolio.
Imagine you were one of the first to buy shares of McDonald's Corp. (NYSE: MCD), the world's largest publicly traded fast food company....
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Why Means Testing Won’t Work
First of all, Social Security is already means tested by
1) Progressive taxation of benefits.
2) Progressive reduction in benefits per dollars payed in.
however, further means testing of the have lesses is a fairness topic other than the thoughts I wa...
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Profit From Inflation: These Six Stocks That Will Add Punch to Your Portfolio
If there's one skill you need to learn, it's how to profit from inflation.
Thanks to the cheap-money policies of Team Bernanke at the U.S. Federal Reserve, the escalating levels of global sovereign debt, and other recent developments in the world economy, it's clear that we're headed for a...
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Record Profits for Health Insurers as Many Postpone Care
The nation’s major health insurers are barreling into a third year of record profits, enriched in recent months by a lingering recessionary mind-set among Americans who are postponing or forgoing medical care.
The UnitedHealth Group, one o...
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Secular Bull and Bear Markets
May 1, 2011 Monthly Update
Was the March 2009 low the end of a secular bear market and the beginning of a secular bull? Without crystal ball, we simply don't know.
One thing we can do is examine the past to broaden our understanding of the rang...
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Bank Dividends Are a Sham and a Con
After taking 3 of 4 days off between March 10 and March 15 the Fed resumed daily pumping last week, and is scheduled to continue pumping about $25 billion a week into the market through April 11. Along with that the market will be getting the benefit of $25 billion a week in Supplementary...
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When Irish Eyes Are Crying
Ireland is different, quite an interesting read.
When Irish Eyes Are Crying
When the Irish land boom flipped from miracle to catastrophe, a lot of important people’s status, along with perhaps their sense of themselves, flipped with it. An Irish st...
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QQQbears Hot Links for 9/29/10
ROISEPTEMBER 29, 2010.You Should Have Timed the Market
By BRETT ARENDS
Everybody knows the last decade on Wall Street was a poor one for investors.
Turns out it was even worse than we thought.
A remarkable new study from TrimTabs Investment Rese...
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Fall Guys and Silent Heart Attacks
It’s not just Aunt Millies who are being forced into coupon clipping and not leaving the house because of scant income returns. It is now evident that large pension funds have been another fall guy. Latest data on the funded status of the 100 largest pension funds clicks in at a ten year...
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TBAC Report – Don’t Worry Be Happy
In the Professional Edition Fed reports posted 3-4 times weekly, I make use of the quarterly estimates of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Treasury’s weekly borrowing needs to see how the experts did versus the subsequent reality, mainly to judge if they seem to have a handle on the situation or not....
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Blast From the Past
I was checking back over some things I had written some years ago in a “How’m I doin’?” exercise and I came across this. I’ll follow this up in a “where are we now” analysis in the Professional Edition Long Term Update to be posted later this weekend. Long Term- Stocks Are a Lousy...
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