Archive - 2013 - Blog entry
Smart Ass Commentators, Grouponzi and the 75% (Loss Taken By Those Opposing BoomBustBlog Research)
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 03/01/2013 11:28 -0500Big name brand banks push 75% loss ponzi schemes, yet everybody still flocks to work, and do business, with them. The term Muppet is a compliment!
Looming Problem for Japan
Submitted by Marc To Market on 03/01/2013 10:13 -0500I look at two problems confronting Japan. Despite huge monetary easing and extended QE, deflation not inflation remains the dominant price characteristic. Many who think that QE drives currencies and creates inflation really need to come to grips with Japan. The other problem Japan is encountering is that foreign investors have responded to the policy signals by rotating out of Japanese bonds and into Japanese stocks. However, Japanese investors have not stepped up their export of savings to protect it. Instead over the past four weeks, Japanese investors have sold more foreign assets than any four week period for more than a decade.
HaPPY SeQueSTRaTioN DaY 2013...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 03/01/2013 09:21 -0500A holiday on ice...
On Awful Deals and France
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 03/01/2013 08:43 -0500MS has brought us another Awful Deal, basically MS sold Offal to the public.
February 28th
Who’s to Blame?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 02/28/2013 19:51 -0500The cuts for the balance of the fiscal year come to $42b; an amount that is equivalent to 45 points on Apple’s market capitalization. Not a big deal??
Bulls Fail To Claim Records For Month End
Submitted by David Fry on 02/28/2013 19:11 -0500
Aided by QE and ZIRP, the-powers-that-be tried to end February with some bullish records designed to pump-up Main Street. Theoretically, if new market record highs were achieved this would then suck more money into financial products, as the WS marketing machine would be energized.
Noobs with Boobs
Submitted by Tim Knight from Slope of Hope on 02/28/2013 17:30 -0500Here are some snippets from an interview from New Yorker magazine with the queen of trading on the cusp, 16-year-old Rachel Fox (as in Stocks; it rhymes, get it?), the shoeshine girl of the modern age.
The Utter Fragility Of The Eurozone: Even Democracy Is A Threat
Submitted by testosteronepit on 02/28/2013 13:17 -0500From “I’m appalled that two clowns have won” in Italy to fear
Prehistoric Man Had Much Healthier Teeth and Gums than Modern Humans
Submitted by George Washington on 02/28/2013 12:16 -0500And Other Amazing Health News ...
This Rabbit Hutch Kills Fascists
Submitted by hedgeless_horseman on 02/28/2013 11:49 -0500No single drop of water ever believes it is responsible for the flood. I do know that it is incredibly satisfying to take action. What is the saying? Knowledge without action is insanity.
Sequester Fester, No Cliff
Submitted by Marc To Market on 02/28/2013 10:47 -0500A dispassionate discussion of the impact of the sequester and implications for investors. I look also look at how the dollar has performed since QE3+ was announced and it is not what many might have expected.
Europe: An Intermediate Forecast Analysis
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 02/28/2013 09:50 -0500A successful entrepeneur's take on the European sitaution...
Jack Lew on Social Security - Dump It!
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 02/28/2013 09:07 -0500Oh well, who cares about things in the past?
February 27th
Market Comments: Lots of Words, Little Meaning
Submitted by ilene on 02/27/2013 22:44 -0500If it doesn't go up, it might just go down.
Too BiG To FaiL DouCHe BaG...
Submitted by williambanzai7 on 02/27/2013 22:14 -0500Why Jamie Dimon is richer than you...
