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BoomBustBlog Visits Financial Ground Zero To Check Out The Occupy Wall Street Movement

Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 10/06/2011 09:05 -0400

This is the BoomBustBlog view of the "Occupy Wall Street" protests, the view that you just won't get through the MSM...

Here's some more evidence of the risks of journalism when cops are out to defend those who pillage their pensions...

It appears as if I may have went over the head of a few skeptical readers with the "rape the police pension" bit, so here's an indepth tutorial of how it works for those so inclined to learn...

The
Conundrum of Commercial Real Estate Stocks: In a CRE "Near Depression",
Why Are REIT Shares Still So High and Which Ones to Short?

Key excerpts...

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Let’s take a look at another big bonus development exercise, marketing push they made into residential MBS a few years ago…

Apathy
and the need to masochistally follow name brand investors is what
enables this malarchy, and is what has allowed CRE prices to be
artificially elevated this high for this long. Believe you me, reality
will reassert itself and will do so in quite the destructive fashion.
Again, For Those Who Chose Not To Heed My Warning About Buying Products From Name Brand Wall Street Banks, and “Blog vs. Broker, whom do you trust!”

Believe
it or not, very few institutional investors are interested in seeing
the mechanics of how they have been bilked to fund Wall Street bonuses. I
have been very generous with the CRE analysis on BoomBustBlog, but
there have been relatively few takers for custom analysis. For those institutional investors who actually care about making money, or at least not losing 91% of it, I suggest you go through the public version of the model designed to create the analysis above. You can download it here: Real estate fund illustration & Interactive model 2009-12-23 12:54:21 174.50 Kb. For those with even more interest, you should download our 2010 CRE outlook: CRE 2010 Overview 2009-12-16 07:52:36 2.85 Mb and our CRE consulting capabilities statement: CRE Consulting Capabilities 2009-12-17 14:17:01 655.48 Kb. I
must say, any client of mine would have been very hard pressed to lose
91% of their money in a Goldman or Morgan Stanley fund.