What the Facebook IPO Debacle Doesn't Tell UsForbesRoss Douthat shares my personal visceral dislike for Facebook, but I'm afraid he's let this warp his analysis of the economics of Facebook. For those note really paying attention, the issue…
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SPX, BKX, INDU and Silver Update: Nobody Said It Would Be Easy…
by Pretzel Logic • • 0 Comments
Yesterday’s market maintained trade within the acceptable retrace range for a 2nd wave correction, however the decline was a bit stronger than I anticipated. What happens over the next couple sessions will hopefully go a long way toward…
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Appeals court tosses GS HFT software guy’s conviction
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
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It’s absurd that GS was able to get an esiponage (not commercial espionage) charge to stick, against this guy, while the entire CDS and robosigning frauds (and countless others) go unpunished.
Further, HFT itself brings no socially-redeemin…
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Unreported Bedlam In Treasuries Signals Massive Panic
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The following is an extended excerpt from the Wall Street Examiner Professional Edition weekly Treasury update. The subscriber link to the full report is at the end of this summary. Last week was a light auction week with a net of just $3 billion in new supply settling on Thursday. That took the pressure off…
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Catastrophic Thailand Floods Are Grounding Tech Industry Worldwide
by Newswires • • 0 Comments
This is a repost of a post from Capitalstool.com by Sandy Beach. I know most of the members of this board are active technical traders and not exactly followers of fundamentals and long term value investing. I tend to trade based on technicals as well. But I have to concede even I am shocked at…
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Why This Crash Should Have Come Sooner
by Bears Chat at The Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
A confession: I’m too excited, nervous, and agitated to start this post cleverly, so let’s just get to the conomic heart of things. As anyone with a financial pulse knows, yesterday specifically and this week generally marks, well, the beginning of…
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Weak Employment Growth Should Not Have Surprised
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The market was disappointed with Friday’s employment data. But actual total employment, as opposed to the widely reported seasonally adjusted numbers, was nowhere near the catastrophe that the market’s reaction made it seem. The problem was that economists’ expectations were misguided, partly as a result of their focus on seasonally adjusted fictitious data which in…
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Bill Gates Blasts States’ Accounting
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Finally, some vindication for Enron!
Bill Gates On States’ Accounting: ‘The Guys At Enron Never Would Have Done This’
LONG BEACH, Calif. — During a second appearance onstage at the annual TED conference, Bill Gates spoke out against worsening sta…
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Bernanke Distances Himself from Rising Food Prices
by a Wall Street Examiner • • 0 Comments
Buenos Aires, Argentina – Is the world finally cracking up? It certainly seems so…at least in that fiery patch of land claimed by the world’s three major monotheistic religions. This is serious stuff. Are you paying attention, Fellow Reckoner…
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Economic Charts- Factory Orders, the Stock Market and the Fed
by Lee Adler • • 1 Comment
Economic pundits and the Wall Street captive media are fond of telling people that the stock market is a discounting mechanism and that it leads the economy. I’m just as fond of showing that the market does neither. Both the market and the economy are mechanisms that respond to changes in macro liquidity. The Fed…
