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    Legg Mason says bottom is in

    Ok, so explain to me why hedge funds are blocking redemptions? Also what does it mean going forward when hedge funds will in fact have to meet these "blocked" redemptions? :confused:
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    Dubai Bubble Imploding - Manhattan Awash in Open Office Space

    The Dubai bubble will make the Manhattan bubble look like peanuts. What you see in Dubai is only the beginning....
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    Legg Mason says bottom is in

    Oh boy...next Mr. Miller will tell the Fed to buy his ill-fated stake in Fannie Mae and other financial garbish he bought on the way down. :p
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    WSJ: Better to "set the money on fire" than give it to GM to reinforce future losses

    The ironic twist to all this goes back some 50 yrs. ago. The japanese automakers back in the 50's embraced the work of Williams Deming and other American industrial quality management gurus. Ford and other US automakers paid little attention to their work and so it continued for a very long...
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    Harvard Endowment Loses About $8 Billion

    Yep...those private equity and real estate holdings now come to bite. Great equity curve "smoothers" on the way up...now they cannot dispose those assets in exchange for bananas.
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    IB: "...terminate our relationship with you..."

    Duh....compliance dept., foreign login? Does that ring a bell?
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    CNBC's most revolting personality

    Neale by a loooong shot.
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    The Next Bubble

    Cash and Bonds
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    The Darkest Storm is About to Descend - You Can't Imagine the Carnage

    This will probably make to the history books. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAtUq0OJ68
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    13 of Dow 30 Broke 2002 Lows: Foundation is Crumbling

    Being bearish or bullish is just a state of mind. The bottom line in this business is to make money. Pure and simple. While I respect the work of some technical analysts..and I can count them on my fingers...the rest could not trade their way out of a paper bag. Yamada saying that her...
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    Buffett going 100% long stocks

    We call that the law of ever changing cycles!
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    History never repeats...

    This is not a diversified portfolio by a long long long shot.
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    BRK.a taken to the woodshed

    The issue with BRK is that it is heavily owned by institutions. Once the mammoths start running in just one direction...there's no stopping.
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    C is in trouble

    Thanks for the insightful thread. It came as a shock to me that C is in trouble! Any other banks in trouble that I should have to worry? :p
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    Possible default in December gold??

    "I don't know what desk you work on, but I feel sorry for whoever's money you are trading." I think your last comment applies here... :p
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    The Surf Report

    This is true and this question can be easily answered by mechanically testing simple strategies. The main downside of fixed stop losses strategies is that MOST do not account for a change in price volatility regime.
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    Velez Capital

    Well, I hate to give you bad news...if you want to play this game then you have to pay your dues one way or another and that usually comes in the form of money. Number one lesson in this game is the following (and take that to the grave with you): IF IT SOUNDS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE....THEN...
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    Possible default in December gold??

    Gosh, I don't know how many times this rumor crossed my trading desk in the past few weeks and the price of gold has gone nowhere. Apparently, this rumor has its origins (to no surprise) from the old time newsletter gold bugs. Truth be told here...after all this nasty turmoil in the...
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    Velez Capital

    You gotta to be kidding right?! :p
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    Is raising taxes on those making 250k going to hurt the economy?

    People actually believe that the so called "ceiling" of 250K is going to stick? You gotta to be naive to think that "250K" will be the watermark... :p
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