Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Auto Sales Collapse, GM At 49 Year Low

49-year low; Auto Sales Collapse; GM; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Fri 2009-01-16 00:00 EST

Asia Times Online :: China News, China Business News, Taiwan and Hong Kong

China's inflation-free route from crisis, by Henry C. K. Liu; ``China produces from plants financed by foreign investment that operate with low domestic wages for foreign markets that pay with dollars that cannot be used in the domestic economy...China must finance plants with sovereign credit to produce for the domestic market where consumer purchasing power will come from high wages, with sovereign credit repaid from increased tax revenue from a vibrant domestic economy.''

Asia Times Online; China Business News; China News; Hong Kong; TAIWAN.

Thu 2009-01-15 00:00 EST

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit

Jesse's Café Américain: Too Big to Fail, Too Well-Connected to Jail: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit; ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.'' Akerlof and Romer; Yves Smith

bankruptcy; big; Economic Underworld; fail; jailed; Jesse's Café Américain; profits; well connections.

Tue 2009-01-06 00:00 EST

Hussman Funds: Low Quality's Round Trip

The bubble in low-quality stocks is the third to deflate, by William Hester

Hussman Funds; Low Quality's; trips.

Mon 2008-12-15 00:00 EST

Hussman Funds - Weekly Market Comment: Recognition, Fear and Revulsion - December 15, 2008

``Bear markets tend to experience a series of separate lows on what I'd call recognition, fear, and revulsion.''

2008; December 15; fears; Hussman Funds; recognition; revulsion; weekly market comments.

Sun 2008-11-23 00:00 EST

Untitled

ten rare lectures featured in "The Rediscovered Benjamin Graham: Selected Writings of the Wall Street Legend", by Janet Lowe

untitled.

Fri 2008-11-07 00:00 EST

SSRN-Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit by George Akerlof, Paul Romer

(1994); ``Bankruptcy for profit will occur if poor accounting, lax regulation, or low penalties for abuse give owners an incentive to pay themselves more than their firms are worth and then default on their debt obligations.''

bankruptcy; Economic Underworld; George Akerlof; Paul Romer; profits; SSRN-Looting.

Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT

James Grant - Bad Medicine

(Washington Post); ``Low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules are what plunged Wall Street into crisis. Yet it is low interest rates, easy money and malleable accounting rules that top the list of federal fixes''

Bad Medicine; James Grant.

Tue 2008-10-07 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Merrill: Low Treasury Yields to Go Even Lower

David Rosenberg

Go; Low Treasury Yields; Lower; Merrill; naked capitalism.

Fri 2008-06-27 00:00 EDT

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Is The Inflation Scare Over Yet?

"Destruction of credit via massive writedowns..., accompanied by sharply rising unemployment rates, falling wages, and curtailment in credit lines everywhere is simply not an inflationary environment"; "ery likely new all time lows in the 10-year treasury yield and 30-year long bond are coming up"

Inflation Scare; Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis.

Fri 2008-06-13 00:00 EDT

Result of the Fed's rate cuts: global inflation, US stagnation | The Economic Populist

Tim Duy says low interest rates engendered unforeseen blowback

economic populist; Fed's rate-cutting; global inflation; resulting; stagnated.

Tue 2008-06-03 00:00 EDT

[ The Financial Ninja ]: Really Scary Fed Charts: MAY, False Alarm?

"ed has basically traded in high quality instruments, US treasuries, for low quality instruments that the market doesn't want at all"

False Alarm; Financial Ninja; Really Scary Fed Charts.

Fri 2007-12-21 00:00 EST

Money Matters: Despite Obvious Inflation, Bank of Japan Will LOWER Rates!

low Japanese interest rates key to worldwide economic collapse

bank; Japan; lower rating; money matters; obvious inflation.

Sun 2007-09-09 00:00 EDT

naked capitalism: Dispelling the Myth of Low Unemployment

BLS understating unemployment

dispelling; low unemployment; myth; naked capitalism.

Thu 2007-08-16 00:00 EDT

Daily Kos: The Economic Upside To Lead Paint and Tainted Food? Value!

The Economic Upside To Lead Paint and Tainted Food? Value! by Hunter; Erin Burnett, Walmart, China; always low prices

Daily Kos; Economic Upside; lead paint; tainted food; valued.

Tue 2007-01-23 00:00 EST

Rolling Stone : THE LOW POST: W Is Checkmated by Ahmadinejad -- And the World Loses Big

by Matt Taibbi (Iran big winner in Iraq, thanks to Bush)

Ahmadinejad; checkmate; low posted; Rolling Stone; W; World Loses Big.