Archive - Sep 2010 - Blog entry

Friday evening.Another $35b Federal bailout. Nothing new.

How things change...

Demand that BP and the government release the data - if not to independent scientists - at least to government officials not directly involved in the spill response.

"the system remained at risk because it is subject to future 'judgments' of individual regulators, who [Volcker] said would be relentlessly lobbied by banks and politicians to soften the rules."

You know times are bad in the housing industry when home builders hang up the hard hat and take to running leveraged hedge funds. Hell, they don't even have to be any good at it, because they are using 0%, non-recourse loans with very little of their own capital (bubble style leverage), thanks to YOU, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer bitching about unemployment and higher taxes. I hope this doesn't piss anybody off,,, again!

Live individual currency strength meter.

Love them or hate them, they’re going to be around for another 75 years. From gilded blue bloods to “Mack the Knife” to the “suits” in one generation. Saving the firm twice. Successfully demanding a huge equity infusion from the Mitsubishi Group, while simultaneously holding at bay the wolves from Wall Street and Washington. (MS).

Retail Traders as a herd are wrong…most of the time (sorry guys its true).

This daily report is designed to help traders find opportunities to trade against this group. The premise is very simple we are looking for 66% of retail traders to be trading either long or short a currency pair, we then look for opportunities to fade (trade against) this group. For example if 72.99% of traders are long the USD/CHF we look for opportunities to short that pair.

Will Moody's force states to accelerate pension reforms?

Today, there is not a single government in the world that has provided an adequate or sustainable solution to our global monetary crisis. The most prominent criticism from Keynesian apologists regarding our monetary crisis is that supporters of Austrian economics always complain but offer no solutions. This simply is not true. Rather, our global leaders refuse to hear or consider the solutions we present. Today, citizens desire real change, not change disguised as maintenance of the status quo that politicians and bankers offer to us.

I'm forever blowing bubbles,
Pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams they fade and die.

Is the Fed pushing on a string?

For anybody that values results over brand names, the housing market has a much rougher road ahead than many presume and banks are literally the walking dead! Having accurately called the fall of the WaMu, Countrywide, Bear Stearns, MBIA, Ambac, Lehman, residential and commercial real estate I am confident that the list of big name failures WILL EXPAND! Every single variable that can be plugged into a housing value equation is explicitly negative, save the manipulated mortgage interest rates (meaning another bubble to burst).

Let’s be honest. Forget recessions, forget even Depressions, the US is an empire in decline.

You can literally see it crumbling right in front of you. Just start looking at how people live, eat, and act on a day to day basis. Look at how our Government runs itself, how it manages our affairs, how it spends our tax Dollars. Look at how our justice system works, who it protects and who it punishes.

It’s all out there, right in the open for you to see. You don’t need an expert degree or some kind of advanced education. It’s OBVIOUS to anyone who bothers looking around.

The fact we don’t admit it doesn’t mean it’s not true.

Adobe Systems Inc. (ADBE) shares got slammed big time on Wednesday in heavy volume plunging 19% and touched a 52-week low. While some analysts said the company's longer-term prospects remain solid as the economy recovers, there are warning signs indicating otherwise.