Sun 2008-06-01 00:00 EDT
The Great Oil Swindle: How much did the Fed really know? by Mike Whitney; soaring commodity prices "hoax cooked up by the investment banks and hedge funds...trying to dig their way out of the trillion dollar MBS mess", billions of Fed dollars diverted into commodities
Wed 2008-05-28 00:00 EDT
The Yellow Brick Road > The last bubble in the investment desert; commodities speculation; contango;
Wed 2008-05-21 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Berserker Funds in Commodities; Michael Masters testifies on commodity speculation; "f investors (or whatever) held a stable currency with accurately rated (rather than bogus) investment grade financial instruments, with a positive real rate of return, against a truthful inflation number, would they be loaded to the gills with everything from grains to oil to cattle?"
Berserkers Funds; Commodities; economic; Market; watch; winter.
Sun 2008-05-04 00:00 EDT
by Robert Parry | The Smirking Chimp; Reverend Sun Myung Moon "has invested billions of dollars in financing the U.S. conservative movement and put fat wads of cash into the pockets of many prominent Republicans, including members of President George W. Bush's own family." Rev. Moon's lurid sex scandals, espionage, media empire, drug trafficking, gun-running
Mon 2008-04-28 00:00 EDT
(advice for young adults)
Thu 2008-04-10 00:00 EDT
"investment banks are taking their hung leveraged buyout loans and bundling them into collatearlized loan obligations so they can use them as collateral for loans fromt the Fed"
Thu 2008-04-10 00:00 EDT
Tue 2008-04-01 00:00 EDT
SPIEGEL ONLINE - Druckversion - US Financial Crisis: Why the Paulson Plan is DOA, by BusinessWeek chief economist Mike Mandel - International; "Paulson's plan only works in a fictional world where investment banks properly regulate themselves"
DOA; Druckversion; Financial Crisis; International; Paulson plans; Spiegel Online.
Mon 2008-03-31 00:00 EDT
"Protecting the bondholders of investment banks is not an efficient way to help homeowners."
2008; Bear Stearns Deal; Congress; Hussman Funds; Investors; March 31; understanding; weekly market comments.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
Investment Firms Tap Fed for Billions, by Jeannine Aversa (AP)
100; bank; Feds offer.
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
"buy the SPY...when the 20 week moving average crosses the 50 week moving average by more than 1%, and you go to cash (or treasuries) when the 20 week moving average crosses the 50 week moving average in the downward direct by more than 1%."
Long Term Investment Timing Signal; Ticker Classics; working.
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Rebuttal of GaveKal's Bully "Wealth & Platform Theory"; platform companies "outsource American jobs to safe production locales like China and Thailand, who then pollute the global environment and fail to account for the negative externalities (true costs) of their production...the peculiar slash and burn notion that the US can just eat its young by outsourcing jobs to foreign polluters, while failing to invest in capex and just merrily borrowing from foreigners against its Bubble induced wealth."; 2006-12-26
economic; GaveKal's Bully; Market; Platform Theory; Rebuttal; watch; wealth; winter.
Tue 2008-03-25 00:00 EDT
Fed "loan" "to support J.P. Morgan's purchase of Bear Stearns...not a loan at all. The Fed and J.P. Morgan are creating an investment fund, to be managed by BlackRock."
Sun 2008-03-23 00:00 EDT
"Many of the stated economic gains have been a false ghost. Whether it was overstated job creation (NFP), understated inflation (CPI) or "inflated" growth (GDP), a shocking amount of the debate about the economic expansion has been primarily spin."
Big Picture; good times; investment; K; Mirage; Post-Fact Society.
