I’m struggling to find a different way to say the same thing again… Ah, the hell with it. The 10-12 month cycle projection is...
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It seems that my Thursday edition of Wall Street Insights & Indictments was warmly received by the bullish crowd, many of whom reached out to me to thank me for my optimism. I’m sorry to burst your bubbles, but I am not a raging bull (but thank you for asking). In fact, I’m still bearish. There’s a...
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Will they paint this tape until year end,or will a surprise appear to burn the bulls?
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Nearly 7 million Americans are receiving jobless benefits under seven different state and federal programs. Around a quarter of those will fall off the rolls in January if Congress does not renew an extended benefits program that expires at year end.
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Will Santa Claus arrive in time to deliver his usual year end rally, or has he decided to trim his largesse to Wall Street this year and instead deliver lumps of coal to Bernanke, Geithner & Co.?A lot of punters are awfully confident that Santa Cla...
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10:53 am
From Peter Tchir of TF Market Advisors
So we get an early start to the Europe goes home rally?
Since by now even my mother knows that US stocks rally when Europe goes home, it only makes sense to rally well ahead of it? It has become too we...
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On Friday, the yield on one-year Greek debt soared to 67%. Europe is demanding greater and greater austerity as a condition for additional bailouts, but austerity has already resulted in a depression for the people of Greece, and a loss of tax revenues...
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Earlier today I had my first article in a major media publication. http://www.marketwat...axes-2011-04-12
A sharp eyed reader has identified a more serious error in the paragraph below than I initially realized when he first contacted me.
Corporati...
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Hmmmm. Now that Goldman is bullish, guess that means everything is comin' up roses...
From the just distributed email to clients:
The US growth outlook has brightened significantly in recent weeks. As a result, we have raised our sights for 2011...
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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Hedge-fund-FrontPoint-hit-by-rb-3572330763.
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Hedge fund FrontPoint hit by $3 billion in redemptions
On Friday November 26, 2010, 3:22 pm EST
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON (Reuters) - FrontPoint Partners, a ...
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that in the aftermath of three-year investigation: “federal authorities are preparing insider-trading charges that could ensnare consultants, investment bankers, hedge-fund and mutual-fund traders and analysts acr...
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Thoughts ahead of Q3 GDP
Friday's Q3 GDP numbers, writes The Automatic Earth blog (TAE) and CMI’s DShort (Consumer Metrics Institute), are not all that important. The “real" data won’t be known until well after the November 3 mid-term elections,...
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September 25, 2010
What the Rich Don’t Need
By RICHARD H. THALER
WANT to give affluent households a present worth $700 billion over the next decade? In a period of high unemployment and fiscal austerity, this idea may seem laughable. Amazingly, thou...
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Not again. CNBS officially deemed our markets to be in the "New Normal" today. Basically it is their way to push the outside of the stoopid envelope so the Wall Street criminals can bag their year end bonuses after whipsawing people who have effectivel...
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I have posted numerous times about the impacts of the defacto squatter economic “policy.” I say policy because I truly feel this is a deliberate and flawed attempt to socialize more losses, leaving the burden for taxpayers, Treasury creditors, and future generations, in much the same way that losses to banksters were socialized. I...
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The FDIC funding is again a sight to behold. They have already tapped the banking system for $45 billion for an advance payment of 2010-2012 dues. At year end, they were $20.9 billion in the hole, but with this replenishment “recapitalized” to $24 billion in which to insure a banking system with $13.1 trillion...
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The market has come to an important fulcrum here at year end. There are signs of strengthening in the 6 month cycle. Click here to download complete report in pdf format (Professional Edition Subscribers). Try the Professional Edition risk free for thirty days. If, within that time, you don’t find the information useful, I...
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The Fed bought another slice of GSE paper today to add to the $13.4 billion it has consumed over the past 3 weeks. The total amount taken was $1.6 billion, bringing the total to $15 billion. The Fed announced that it would do no further purchases through year end. Let’s keep this in perspective....
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