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Lear Set To File For Bankruptcy

Look at the chart below and memorize it well. The fate of countless other high beta, uber-garbage stocks that are lately flying like crazy, schizophrenic Hindenburgs will soon follow in the same pattern. In this particular case: Lear - the nth autosupplier which according to the WSJ is about to file for bankruptcy. The drop from $2.50 to $0.50 in two weeks should be considered all too carefully by all who listen to Cramer and the "buy stocks so GE can go up and pay us our salary for one more year at least" brigade.


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Here Comes Russian Bank Nationalization

You didn't think we could beat the original communists at their own game now, did you.

Monetizing proletarians of the world - unite.


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Intraday Credit Observations

People using "negative" proceeds from buying stuff to buy other stuff... Yes, one of those rare days where the money just comes out of nowhere and buys stocks, commodities, f/x and bonds all up at the same time. So here are the results of magical money growing on trees.


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Art Laffer On Inefficient Market Theory

Art Laffer of Laffer Associates has some very good perspectives on why he sees 20 year of hell coming up for the US economy. With thoughts like "never heard of anyone spending themselves into prosperity" he is, of course, correct.


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AIG's 10(b) 5 Fraud, And Goldman's CDO Collateral Calls

Recently uncovered critical documents disclosing details about AIG's CDO portfolio and collateral calls, indicate that during a December 5th conference call with Investors, Joe Cassano, famous for singlehandedly destroying capitalism and forcing most financial companies to be subsidized by US taxpayers in perpetuity, as well as then CEO Martin Sullivan, effectively commited 10(b) 5 fraud by misrepresenting material company conditions.


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$27 Billion 7 Year Note Auction Results

- Yield 3.329% vs. Exp. 3.360%
- B/c ratio 2.82 vs. Avg. 2.35 (Prev. 2.26)
- Indirects 67.2% vs. Avg. 31.39% (Prev. 33.07%)
- Allotted at high 13.17%


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Louis Gerstner: Kill The Casino Wall Street Has Become

In an interesting overture to killing the current casino culture that is enveloping capital markets, none other than IBM former CEO Louis Gerstner is recommending taxing short-term (less than 1 year) capital gains at 80%. While such a proposal is sure to kill 90% of participants in the capital markets casino which lately trade only on an intraday basis and nobody cares about fundamentals that may justify a long-term buy or hold (simply because anything long-term in this economy will ultimately result in a 0 valuation).


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Bank Of England Gilt Buyback Issues Escalating

The Bank Of England has announced that it is excluding the 5% 2014 and 8% 2021 gilts from buybacks until notice. As this is likely indicative of the major weakness in the gilt curve, the US better sell all the 5-12 year comparable Treasuries it can asap.


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Volkswagen Shares Set To Plunge?

German Government adviser says Porsche should sell some VW (VOW GY) shares to raise cash.


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New York Times Sale Rumors Quashed... For Now

In an interview with MarketWatch's Jon Friedman, Janet Robinson, CEO of embattled former media titan and now merely distressed media company scrambling to plug debt covenant holes, New York Times, has announced that she has had it with other members of the evil, speculative media world.


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Frontrunning: June 25

  • Second derivative promptly trounced: Initial jobless claims pick up again to 627k (Reuters and Bloomberg)
  • Jonathan Weil: Capital One's $549 million man buys back freedom (Bloomberg)
  • ECB favors underground press over helicopter drop (Reuters)
  • Revised GDP allegedly supposed to show much stronger economy (BBC)
  • Treasury yields drop as green shoots exposed to be pure propaganda (Bloomberg)

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    Daily Highlights: 6.25.09

  • Bernanke will face hostile questioning on BofA deal.
  • Fed leaves bond-purchase program unchanged, says pace of contraction slows.
  • Fed: Key interest rate will remain near zero "for an extended period."
  • Irish banks face $49 billion in losses.
  • New-home sales unexpectedly fell 0.6% in May from the prior month.

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    Overalottment: June 24

  • Wall Street begins campaign to thwart populist overreaction (Bloomberg) [Zero Hedge soon to begin campaign to thwart this campaign]
  • $27 billion of 7 Year USTs on deck (Bloomberg)
  • Deflating our way to Posterity (Dr. Housing Bubble)
  • Harry Schultz: Gold confiscatory bank holiday coming up? (MarketWatch, h/t Pere Ubu)
  • Treasury is overstating indirect bids at auctions (Reuters)

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