Jon Hilsenrath, at the WSJ, must have had a phone call with Ben Bernanke on Saturday. Accordingly, Jon put an article out just in time to influence the market on Monday morning. The headline says it all:
No doubt, Bernanke is watching the price of …
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November 5, 2011
The Denials That Trapped Greece
By LANDON THOMAS Jr. and STEPHEN CASTLE
Athens
THE warning was clear: Greece was spiraling out of control.
But the alarm, sounded in mid-2009, in a draft report from the International Monetary Fund, …
Oct. 10, 2011, 12:00 a.m. EDT
How Wall Street scammed Mom and Pop — again
Commentary: Investors in this year’s fund IPOs should be protesting
By Brett Arends, MarketWatch
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — The question isn’t why some people are “occup…
September 24, 2011
If It Looks Like a Bear, and Moves Like a Bear …
By PAUL J. LIM
AFTER a week in which stocks sank more than 6 percent, the sell-off in equities that began five months ago is coming perilously close to bear market territory.
Whet…
Last October, when everyone was jubilant about the housing “recovery,” Gary Shilling of A. Gary Shilling & Co., predicted that house prices would fall another 20%.
In the five months since, house prices have resumed their decline.
In his most …
Long and Short of It
A slowing economy. The high cost of food and other essentials. A dearth of job opportunities. The debt ceiling debate. Chaotic markets. Nowadays, there’s plenty of bad news to go around about near-term concer…
Looking For Love In All The Wrong Places?…We are all very much aware of the change in market tone and sentiment over the last four to five months. Strategists and investors fretting over rapidly deteriorat…
