Archive - Oct 2011 - Blog entry
October 31st
This Year’s ‘Lehman Moment’ Might Occur Soon
Submitted by Econophile on 10/31/2011 23:00 -0500Is the missing MF Global customer money a 'Lehman' moment. Risk is off, off, off.
No More Golf or Pizza for the Yakuza
Submitted by testosteronepit on 10/31/2011 21:23 -0500New laws that put the screws to organized crime in Japan by slapping at its victims are already wreaking havoc in business.
Graham Summers’ Weekly Market Forecast (Wake Up Call Edition)
Submitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 10/31/2011 13:27 -0500
The markets flew into this deal based on rumors and short-covering and are now waking up to the plain obvious facts that you cannot solve a debt problem with more debt. Also, it might be worth considering just where the EFSF bailout money will be coming from when various EU members can’t even stage successful bond auctions without the ECB stepping in.
Crunch time?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 10/31/2011 11:23 -0500What's the LIBOR roll-over for year end?
Americans’ urge to shop is overriding anxiety about the economy.
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/31/2011 08:18 -0500While household-sentiment measures are at levels typically observed during a recession, an increase in spending during the third quarter boosted growth to the highest level of the year, Commerce Department figures showed Oct. 27. The schism partly reflects consumer ire with the government’s failure to reduce 9.1 percent unemployment or stem rising deficits, said James Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Minneapolis-based Wells Capital Management.
Sol Sanders | Follow the money No. 90 The Euro is dead, long live the euro!
Submitted by rcwhalen on 10/31/2011 07:49 -0500President Sarkozy’s call to China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiapao for help in bailouts and recapitalizing European banks is fantasy. Beijing plays a completely mercantilist hand. With its exports threatened and repeated promises to its own increasingly restless to shift to a more consumer-oriented economy, China’s more than $3 trillion in monetary reserves [20% in vacillating Euros] is mortgaged by a deflating dollar and its own incipient inflation.
ReTuRN OF THe BaiL OuT THRiLLa! (HaPPY HaLLoWeeN ZeRo HeDGE!)
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 10/31/2011 07:31 -0500
It's Midnight this late October night and
Central Banksta Zombies Lurking in the Dark...
Retail Trader Positioning 31st October – USDJPY Intervention!
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 10/31/2011 02:13 -0500We ended last week with 88%+ of USDJPY traders long and wrong for many months now. Today Japan sold the yen for the second time in less than three months after it hit another all time high against the dollar last week. As usual...retail traders are quickly moving position and we are seeing a strong drop in overall long positions to 70.83%. We expect this trend to continue but its important to note that past interventions haven't done a whole lot to stem the tide.
Q3 GDP Is A Head Fake
Submitted by Econophile on 10/31/2011 01:06 -0500The Q3 GDP report tells us nothing about the health of the economy and it is misleading at best.
October 30th
Unbelievable, Must-See Video: Heroic Navy Sailor Stands Tall In the Middle of Oakland Tear Gas Firestorm ... Holding Up the Cons
Submitted by George Washington on 10/30/2011 23:46 -0500H-E-R-O
BaNZai7 HaLLOWeeN KiCK OFF: QuoTH THe RaVeN, DEBTS NO MORE!
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 10/30/2011 21:14 -0500Once upon a midnight dreary, while insolvent weak and weary...
Investor Sentiment: The Best Gains are Behind Us
Submitted by thetechnicaltake on 10/30/2011 19:52 -0500The big change will be the decreasing acceleration in the rate at which gains will occur.
Steven J. Baum | Foreclosure Mill Fraud Busted by Susan Chana Lask-MERS and Mortgage Fraud Detailed (VIDEO)
Submitted by 4closureFraud on 10/30/2011 17:17 -0500If you are reading this "Sloppy Stevie," you might want to watch your back. Looks like you just pissed off all of America...
Stock World Weekly: Europhoria
Submitted by ilene on 10/30/2011 15:17 -0500"Unless the FCBs step up to the plate much more than they have in the past couple of weeks, either the Treasury market will collapse, or the stock market rally will fizzle, or both. We’re not there yet." Lee Adler













