In Facebook's Fiasco, Hope for ReformBarron’sThe fiasco involving the pricing of the giant Facebook IPO could end up changing the way new equity issues get sold. The $18 billion initial public offering has thrown a harsh light on Wall Street practi…
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Economics, Must Read
Bruce Bartlett: Taxes and Employment – NYTimes.com
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Taxes and Employment By BRUCE BARTLETT Bruce Bartlett held senior policy roles in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and served on the staffs of Representatives Jack Kemp and Ron Paul. He is the author of “The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform – Why We Need It and What It Will Take.” Since…
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Trying to Shed Student Debt – Wall Street Journal
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Morning SentinelTrying to Shed Student DebtWall Street JournalBy JOSH MITCHELL The growth of student debt is stirring debate about whether the government should step in to ease the burden by rewriting the bankruptcy laws—again. In 2005, Congress proh…
Lee's Free Thinking, Liquidity Trader, Professional Edition
Is The Liquidity Tide Coming In or Going Out For Stocks?
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
This is an extended excerpt from the Professional Edition Fed Report Executive Summary. Note: Pages 4-10 comments correctly updated at 3:55 PM NY time. The composite liquidity indicator rose sharply last week, driven by a big Fed settlement of MBS purchases. The uptrend in the indicator is accelerating. Over the course of this latest surge,…
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SPX Update and More: Why I Haven’t Yet Joined the Long-Term Bull Camp, Part I
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We’re going to move through this article starting with the short-term and ending with the long-term.
Friday performed exactly as expected, “choppy sideways with a slight upward bias.” The second part of that prognostication projected at least a …
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I’m starting to think next Pres. will be crazy person
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I’m starting to think that one of these nut jobs will be our next President. Obama has tried to play it safe, and there’s no endeavor in the world where you can overcome great odds by taking no chances. And he faced great odds as we all know.
But h…
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I Stand With The Protesters
by Lee Adler • • 80 Comments
I stand with the protesters. We as a society must stop pretending. Most of us think that we still have money in the bank to protect, so we go along with the game of extend and pretend. For some of us, the game has already ended. The rapacious zero interest rate policy that I call…
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Survey Says Owning a House Is Dumb
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
I was riding high in April, shot down in May. Watching that mighty river of real estate sentiment, Zillow.com, I found recently that my accidental-landlord house in Virginia had picked up a cool 15 percent in value since January.
Why? Sentiment, ba…
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Today’s Dow Is Now in Third Place
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
May 18, 2011 New Update
Here is the latest look at the “Sweet Sixteen” Dow recoveries adjusted for inflation/deflation I’ve been illustrating over the past year. The charts below compare the current Dow recovery since the March 2009 low with fifte…
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Joe Friday: "Just the Facts"
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May 13, 2011 Analysis from Chris Kimble
It’s Friday, and Chris “Just the Facts” Kimble returns for another Dragnet impersonation, this time with some thoughts on Financials and markets in general … and an ironic quip on diversification.
C…
