Who Launched the USS Fannie Mac?
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 01/02/2010 - 21:38 Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Marla Singer Mexico New Orleans None Marla S. did a piece today about the Agencies that got me thinking. The story of the Battle Ship USS Fannie Mac and the terrible accident that occurred.
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Is Copper The New Precious Metal?
Submitted by asiablues on 01/01/2010 - 18:58 Bollinger Bands Chicago PMI China Copper CRB CRB Index Global Economy Gross Domestic Product India Market Share Monetary Policy None Reality Recession recovery Yen Despite its red hot streak in 2009, copper's continuous rally in the face of swelling inventories, a sign of weak consumption, has perplexed many in the market. Some even say copper is behaving more like gold rather than strictly a base metal. Could copper be the new precious metal?- Comments: 40
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Central Bank "Speak" - Beware the Subtleties
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 01/01/2010 - 17:45 Ben Bernanke Central Banks Eastern Europe Greece Money Supply Sovereign Risk Sovereign Risk Swiss Franc Swiss National Bank Funny how things can turn on a single word. Especially if that word is from a Central Banker.- Comments: 17
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2009 Year in Review
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 12/31/2009 - 20:58 AIG American International Group Commercial Real Estate Fail Jon Stewart New Normal Nortel Private Equity Real estate recovery Testimony Warren Buffett Oh what a year 2009 was...- Comments: 37
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Will Americans Reclaim Our Nation in 2010 From the Thugs and Con Artists?
Submitted by George Washington on 12/31/2009 - 18:37 Cap and Trade Citigroup Con Artists Gambling Goldman Sachs goldman sachs Insurance Companies White House Will we stand up in 2010, or keep bending over?- Comments: 176
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It Doesn't Take a Genius to Figure Out How This Will End
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 12/31/2009 - 10:42 China Dubai Hong Kong Housing Prices Housing Starts Japan Morgan Stanley None PIMCO Real estate United Kingdom Wen Jiabao For all of those who feel China is going to take over the free world, just remember that when you blow a bubble (particularly a balance sheet bubble) it is bound to pop. The damage from the pop invariably does more harm than the boost from the bubble. It has always been the case, particularly when leverage is involved - which makes the impact that much more devastating. If anybody can attest to this, it should be us Americans (British, Spanish, Irish, those from Dubai, Japanese...).- Comments: 117
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Why the Next Spike in Oil Prices Will Dwarf the Last One
Submitted by madhedgefundtrader on 12/31/2009 - 10:11 Chesapeake Energy China Copenhagen Crude Devon Energy Exchange Traded Fund Gross Domestic Product India International Energy Agency Israel Kazakhstan Kuwait Natural Gas OPEC Richard Jones Saudi Arabia Transocean We need another six Saudi Arabias, and now!The $10 trillion price tag for Decarbonization- Comments: 112
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2009: Why It Will Affect Everyone's Future For Generations To Come
Submitted by Econophile on 12/31/2009 - 01:59 AIG American International Group Bank Failures Capital Positions Chrysler Commercial Real Estate David Rosenberg Deficit Spending Excess Reserves Fail Gluskin Sheff Green Shoots Gross Domestic Product Housing Market Japan John Paulson Keynesian economics Krugman M1 Mises Institute National Debt Neo-Keynesian Obama Administration Paul Krugman Paul Samuelson Proposed Legislation Real estate recovery Regional Banks Rosenberg Silvio Berlusconi Too Big To Fail Unemployment Universa Investments Wall Street Journal 2009 was a game changer, a year that will have profound long-term impacts on our future. These changes are generational. Here are the top 10 economic events of 2009. Understand them well because they will change your future and the future of your children and grandchildren. It won't be good change.- Comments: 116
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Find a Local Credit Union and Assess Its Safety
Submitted by George Washington on 12/31/2009 - 01:43 credit union National Credit Union Administration In support of Huffington Post's call for people to move our money from the giant banks to small banks and credit unions, here are ways to locate credit unions and assess their safety ...- Comments: 12
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Oh Dear, CalPERSfornication Goes Global!
Submitted by Leo Kolivakis on 12/30/2009 - 23:39 Alix Partners Blackrock California Public Employees' Retirement System headlines Institutional Investors Private Equity Real estate REITs Risk Management Stuyvesant Town Tishman Speyer Volatility Wells Fargo What went awry at CalPERS is a textbook case of poor pension governance. And it's not just CalPERS. Reckless greed and sheer stupidity pervades the wider pension industry. Please read this comment carefully so you too are made aware of how pension investments can go awfully wrong.- Comments: 16
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Agency FICO Redline? - A Question to Ask
Submitted by Bruce Krasting on 12/30/2009 - 21:11 Bank of America Bank of America Blog economics Fannie Mae Freddie Mac Mortgage Loans Real estate Treasury Department Wells Fargo A question to ask? Who knows, we may learn something. Blog economics.- Comments: 8
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Economist: Health Care Bill "Is Just Another Bailout Of The Financial System"
Submitted by George Washington on 12/30/2009 - 15:16 Activist Shareholder AFL-CIO Glass Steagall "This is just another bailout of the financial system, because the tens of trillions of dollars already committed are not nearly enough."- Comments: 42
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Yes, dear, that’s a Nuclear Power Reactor They’re Building Next Door
Submitted by madhedgefundtrader on 12/30/2009 - 11:03 Belgium Cameco China Exchange Traded Fund France Generation IV NLR None Nuclear Power Three Mile Island Uranium Nuclear energy makes the greatest comeback of all time. Not your father's nuclear power plant. Better start practicing your “hustle.”- Comments: 77
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The Spanish Banks Start to Unload
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 12/30/2009 - 06:43 Defaulted Loans Housing Bubble Mexico non-performing loans Real estate Recession Reggie Middleton Unemployment My Spanish bank and real estate thesis looks to be panning out, disrupted by that hellish bear market rally. We shall see how accurate it is as the Spanish banks start to liquidate inventory.- Comments: 14
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If Anybody Bothered to Take a Close Look at the Latest Housing Numbers...
Submitted by Reggie Middleton on 12/30/2009 - 06:18 ETC Government Stimulus Gross Domestic Product headlines Housing Bubble Market Manipulation recovery Unemployment So, what does it mean if we get another significant downturn? Well, not only are the 2003 to 2007 vintage mortgages in trouble, but those 2008 and 2009 mortgages are at risk as well. What are the chances of this happening? Fairly significant. For all of those guys who swear we are on the brink of a booming economic recovery, recall that it was housing depreciation that set all of this off to begin with.- Comments: 81
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