I hate “lazy” charting, and I think it’s important to constantly challenge one’s assumptions. During yesterday’s session, I began considering the possibility that my initial labeling of the smallish correction back on March 12 as a 4th wave&…
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Shadow Inventory Estimated To Be 9.8 Million. Oh Dear!
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
“Shadow inventory,” the number of homes that are either in foreclosure or are likely to end up in foreclosure, creates substantial but hidden pressure on housing prices and potential losses to banks and investors. This is a critical figure for …
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Fiscal Policy: Kind of a Drag
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Fiscal Policy: Kind of a Drag
by CalculatedRisk on 1/10/2012 04:54:00 PM
Cardiff Garcia at the Financial Times Alphaville has posted a new graph from economist Alec Phillips of Goldman Sachs: Fiscal flailing, continued
CR …
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SPX, NYA, Dow Updates: Top in Sight; No New Bull Market on the Horizon Yet
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[Two important notes to readers:
1) To bring up larger charts, right click the chart with your mouse and select “open in new” tab or window. The NYA chart is big.
2) This site now requires that you register a valid e-mail account t…
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Gingrich tax ‘plan’ starves government, feeds the wealthy, rests on flawed assumptions
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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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SPX and Dow Update: Stocks at a Critical Inflection Point
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Here’s what I know for certain: there’s a big move coming.
With the new high on Friday, stocks have reached a critical inflection point which could drastically change the expectations and projections going forward. Since the r…
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Revealed – The Capitalist Network That Runs The World
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AS PROTESTS against financial power sweep the world this week, science may have confirmed the protesters’ worst fears.
An analysis of the relationships between 43,000 transnational corporations has identified a relatively small group of companies, ma…
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Unemployment Claims Data and Economists’ Exploding Brain Syndrome
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
With the mainstream media reporting the seasonally adjusted first time unemployment claims down by 6,000 it’s time for a reminder that this number is fake, and may or may not give an accurate representation of the trend. If it does, it’s purely a coincidence. Economists and financial journos are in love with the seasonally manipulated…
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Optimistic TBAC Gets It Wrong
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The market had a big pile of new paper to settle last Monday, but then had plenty of POMO through the week and $18 billion in Treasury paydowns on Thursday. That should have been enough to send the markets higher. It was not. Treasuries did get a big boost but a little matter of a…
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Cheapest Homes in 40 Years? Not Even Close…
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I have been wanting to discuss a horrifically misleading article for a week now: Americans Shun Cheapest Homes in 40 Years as Ownership Fades.
It is an object lesson in how an industry spokesgroup, engaging in biased analysis, used poor econometric…