Archive - Jan 2011 - Blog entry
January 19th
Market Goes Down on Earnings, Did it Swallow Idea that the Economy is Improving?
Submitted by MoneyMcbags on 01/20/2011 01:39 -0500The market sold off today as earnings were more mixed than...
January 19th
Overhaul for California’s Underfunded Pensions?
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 01/19/2011 21:33 -0500Are California's giant pensions about to be overhauled?
Bill Gross: "Ultimately Creditors And Investors Are At The Behest Of A Central Bank And Policymakers That Will Rob Them Of Their Money"
Submitted by George Washington on 01/19/2011 19:30 -0500Yup ...
Words You Seldom - If Ever - See In the Financial Media
Submitted by Anal_yst on 01/19/2011 19:26 -0500From the WSJ's article about record flows into equity funds "Here Comes the Dumb Money!" (I totally dig the title btw!):
China devalues US buying power by 30%, Protects US Treasury Holdings
Submitted by Jack H Barnes on 01/19/2011 17:39 -0500The trade imbalance between the US and China, a hot button between the nations for the last decade or so, is finally going to start to stabilize in the summer of 2011. However, it is doing so with a de facto devaluation of the US dollar and its buying power.
Obama in SOTU - Means Test SS?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 01/19/2011 17:04 -0500Just guessing....
Austerity In America: 22 Signs That It Is Already Here And That It Is Going To Be Very Painful
Submitted by ilene on 01/19/2011 14:38 -0500Austerity has arrived in America. At this point, it is not a formal, mandated austerity like we have seen in Europe, but the results are just the same.
Which Way Wednesday – Topping or Popping?
Submitted by ilene on 01/19/2011 14:18 -0500The higher the market goes without a correction, the more nervous we get that the correction will come.
Rumor Has It That The Germans Are Starting To Consider Real World Solutions To The Greek Debt Dilemma – Restructuring, Exactly As We Anticipated!
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 01/19/2011 13:24 -0500Read between the lines and you will see the "R" word (restructuring), clearly and plainly.
EnDLeSS SuCK--Banzai7 XXX Masterwork Added
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 01/19/2011 11:32 -0500Read this, take a deep breath, read it again....then feel free to start ranting...
Muni Bond Crisis Can Only Deepen
Submitted by RickAckerman on 01/19/2011 10:07 -0500We often disparage the Wall Street Journal for being too spineless to tell it like it is when reporting on the state of the economy, but with last Friday’s lead story, New Hit to Strapped States, they pulled no punches. You can almost pick a paragraph at random and get a sense of how serious the cities’ credit problems are. This paragraph, for instance “Municipalities borrowed $122 billion of variable rate demand debt in 2008, roughly twice the amount of these types of loans borrowed the year before…” How did they get in so deep?
Goldman Sachs Latest: Vindicates BoomBustBlog Research, Disappoints Sell Side Cheerleaders, Shows GS Is Just A Bank After All - an overvalued one at that
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 01/19/2011 09:36 -0500Pssst.... Hey, did you see those latest numbers out of Goldman yet?
Trade Against The 90% That Lose Money 19th Jan
Submitted by Pivotfarm on 01/19/2011 02:19 -0500Retail traders are notoriously wrong at picking market direction/tops and bottoms. Most retail traders very naturally seem to adopt a counter-trend stance and this offers very accurate signals for individuals looking to trade against this group. This daily report is designed to help traders focus their efforts on higher probability pairs.
January 18th
The Utah Pension Model?
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 01/18/2011 23:33 -0500Is the The Utah pension model the solution to states' pension woes?
Oh, East is East and West is West...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 01/18/2011 20:47 -0500On the occasion of PRC President Hu Jintao's historic visit to the United States, I thought it would be helpful to provide the
following visual presentation comparing the Asian and Western cultural mindset.
