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The Japanese bubble: Alarming parallels with U.S. By Steve Lohr Published: February 8, 2008 In broad strokes, the parallels are alarming. After a long boom, the Japanese economy in the 1990s, as America's today, was jolted by a sharp plunge in the real estate market. In Tokyo, the...

I think SAC handed out the estrogen for free while Goldman states they won't cover the hormone treatment part :p

"Banks Still Expanding By Tony Crescenzi 1/7/2008 3:49 PM EST The Federal Reserve's most recent data on bank credit, which measures the total amount of money extended by commercial banks via loans, leases and securities purchases, continues to expand at a fast pace. The expansion is...

Of course high yield and junk credit is getting tighter (BBB- corporate credit, leveraged buyout debt, packaged and sliced "zero risk" debt CDOs) and that's a good thing because unworthy creditors will get wiped out of the system. Once enough garbage borrowers are eliminated out of the world of...

Where do you see evidence for that? Rates are coming down, and quickly so. And it's not like they were 'high' in the first place if we compare our environment to 1974 or 1982. Banks are expanding their loan books (outside of mortgages). Credit is freely available to any individual and company...

Unusual perks: Goldman Sachs covers sex changes The investment bank, No. 9 on the Best Companies to Work For list, added the benefit last year as part of a push to recruit and retain a more diverse workforce. By Althea Chang NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Wall Street is typically considered a pretty...

Wouldn't it be ironic if we read a headline in a year that goes like "Bear Stearns realizes trading losses of $500m on a short subprime mortgage bet that went the wrong way".

Sounds like the #1 solution when you blow up: Close the fund, pay remaining investors back 20 cents on the dollar, find a new name, start from zero with a clean empty track record and claim you have "15 years experience managing money and the 'new' fund is an extraordinary opportunity to...

Are you still claiming Buffet "missed the boat" on AAPL? LMAO

No clue. Maybe they confused the Dow with ESTX50 (which was down 7%)?

Didn't you say in another thread that you don't trade at all. You are giving an awful lot of advice considering you don't put your own money where your mouth is.

IF (INSTRUMENT.ES.SELL_VOLUME = 5000 lot) THEN GO LONG INSTRUMENT.ES 10000 lot ENDIF

Robert Lenzner, 02.07.08, 6:00 AM ET The stock market belongs to the quants. Some 70% of all equity volume is driven by computer models that suddenly trigger a surge in buy or sell orders that are causing the fragmentation, volatility and use of hidden trading venues. Some 30% of all...

How does the average balance sheet of Japanese blue chips look like in 2008? Did they improve as much from 2000 to now as their US and European counterparts did?

So funny in retrospect, after the SocGen story is out :p

Futs are priced for a 100% chance of a 50 bps cut at the March 18 meeting. 2 year yield at 2.1% Fed might go close to 2.5% this year if bond markets are right. Avg. 15 year mortgage rates down to 4.97% from 5.91% six months ago. 30 year went to 5.52% from 6.23%.

Steve Jobs? What are you talking about.

Look at bonds. Who's painting a rosy picture?

ROFL. Yes, it's all a big conspiracy!!!

You know, with all your whining, why not resign your citizenship and emigrate to Cuba, Sudan or Venezuela. You'd be most welcome there with your hatred for free markets.