Sat 2008-05-17 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> GRIN and Bear It
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> GRIN and Bear It; Great unreported Inflation (GRIN) rapidly emptying pocketbooks
Sat 2008-05-17 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Ho Hum Just More Hyperinflation; import prices up 24% on annualized basis!
economic; Ho Hum Just; Hyperinflation; Market; watch; winter.
Fri 2008-05-16 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Paint Lipstick on this Pig; Freddie Mac moves 120 billion to level 3 assets; moved entire ABS portfolio into level 3; level 3 assets now 23% of total assets
Wed 2008-05-07 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Fannie Dismayed; Fannie Mae lying about delinquincy, default; tiny capital base against vast dodgy assets
Mon 2008-05-05 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> CountryFried Whodathunk; looking inside CFC balance sheet; BAC poised to become biggest US property manager
Thu 2008-04-03 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Ben Bernanke, Winker and Risklove Third Class; Andrew Jackson "vipers and thieves" quote
Ben Bernanke; classes; economic; Market; Riskloves; watch; winker; winter.
Fri 2008-03-28 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Backstopping Fictitious Capital; more on demise of platform company model; producers leaving China
Backstopping Fictitious capital; economic; Market; watch; winter.
Thu 2008-03-27 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Gonna to be a Mad Max Revolution? "Historically food inflations and famines combined with corrupt, irresponsible government has been the spark to storming the palace gates and insurrection."
Wed 2008-03-26 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Mad Max Check Out Time; "The lender of only resort to the shark in suits black box crony capitalists has caused quite a splash. It is clear to me that the Pig Men will line up around the block to get the kind of terms offered in the JPM-BSC Ponzi finance liquidation"
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.
Mon 2008-03-24 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Another Kettle Boils Over; regional banks exposed to huge losses on construction loans
economic; kettle boil; Market; watch; winter.
Fri 2008-03-21 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> The Lender of Only Resort; "the financial sphere will be rapidly downsized, large layoffs spun as bullish, and power and capital more intensely concentrated...if you thought financial markets were rigged and manipulated before, you ain't seen nothing yet."
Tue 2008-03-18 00:00 EDT
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Sharks in Suits Black Box Crony Capitalism; Bear Stearns death watch; "These are not bail outs...These are systematic looting operations."
economic; Market; Sharks; Suits Black Box Crony Capitalism; watch; winter.
Thu 2008-02-14 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> Natural Gas: the Rodney Dangerfield of Commodities
Commodities; economic; Market; natural-gas; Rodney Dangerfield; watch; winter.
Tue 2008-01-08 00:00 EST
Winter (Economic & Market) Watch >> This is Not a Drill: "...since transparency in American finance has to be at rock bottom, it appears lending is seizing up, and capital is being destroyed. Thats what we would expect at the terminal phase of a massive credit Bust."