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09
Nov
2009
Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO Says Company Is Part of a “Virtuous Cycle” ...

7 hours ago by insightanalytical

~~By InsightAnalytical-GRL A couple of weeks ago we brought you this little ditty about how some executive at Goldman Sachs explained how moral the marketplace is (See: This Would Be the Laugh of the Day if It Weren’t So Aggravating: Pious Rationalizations About “Morality in the Marketplace” from Ou ...

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“The Baltic Lab Rat”

8 hours ago by econotwist

Mye av hensiktene med DnB NOR sin baltiske datterbank DnB NORD er å være prøvekanin for nye kompliserte investerings- og spareprodukter. I tillegg er den et knutepunkt i en infrastuktur som gjør Rune Bjerkes banknettverk grenseløst og globalt. Resultatet er at ingen vet hvilken risiko som skjuler se ...

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08
Nov
2009
“Say U, Say V” (The Chief Economist Anthem)

19 hours ago by econotwist

Chief Economist Knut Anton Mork at Handelsbanken Capital Markets is one of Norways leading economists. He’s usually a pretty serious guy, but at a conference a few weeks ago he surprised everyone by make a musical final statement. Mr. Mork had written a new lyric to the famous Lionel Richie song “Sa ...

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How the Swine Flu is Affecting the Dollar, Peso, and Yen!

1 day ago

On Monday, as I watched the media breed fear into the public, I also saw my charts going nuts. The Swine Flu fear was spreading from people, to the financial markets. Fist I heard about hog and pork belly futures taking a blood bath in the trading pits due to the swine flu. (Commodity traders were s ...

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More People Don’t Like Research in Motion (RIMM)

1 day ago by TheWild1

Last week I continued my bashing of Research in Motion (RIMM) in favor of Motorola (MOT). Mainly because it seems like the Droid will take even more market share away from the once favored Blackberry, which has already been hurt by the iPhone. Thankfully, I am just one of the many people who seem to ...

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Covered Call Writing Using the Over Write Strategy

1 day ago by admin

Writing covered calls is an excellent way to use options in a low risk way, to generate additional income on your existing portfolio of shares. If you buy shares at the same time that you write the calls then the transaction is known as a buy-write. If you write calls on shares you already hold then ...

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Consequences of the Lehman failure

1 day ago by James Hamilton

William Sterling of Trilogy Global Advisors has an interesting new paper on the abrupt changes in financial markets subsequent to Lehman's bankruptcy on September 15, 2008. Sterling's paper is in part a response to earlier analyses by John Taylor ( 2008, 2009) and John Cochrane and Luigi Zingales wh ...

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07
Nov
2009
Keynes on Mises — and on Himself

1 day ago by Don Boudreaux

Here’s a letter that I sent this morning to the Wall Street Journal: Kudos to Mark Spitznagel for drawing attention to the important but neglected work of the late Ludwig von Mises (” The Man Who Predicted the Depression,” Nov. 7). But while Mr. Spitznagel is correct that Keynesians ignored Mises’s ...

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06
Nov
2009
Tough and True Talk From SEC

2 days ago by Neal Lipschutz

As distressing as some of the enforcement ‘misses’ by the Securities and Exchange Commission have been (read Madoff), it’s even more distressing to contemplate the semingly bottomless well of malfeasance in the securities industry. The details of the latest insider trading charges revealed Thursday ...

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Home Buer Tax Credit Extended and Expanded

2 days ago by North Shore Homes

Expected to contribute approximately $22 billion to the economy, Congress overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan measure this week extending the $8,000 home buyer tax credit to April 30, 2010. The legislation, which is part of a larger bill that also extends unemployment benefits, was signed into law by ...

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